What would the usual Tom do? You guessed it, he NEVER gives up. Jada is out of bullets (technically, she doesn’t have a gun, but what I said is factually correct). This is where this movie stands in stark contrast to Tom’s other incarnations, such as Jack Reacher or Minority Report. Jamie, having learned to use the safety on his gun about ten minutes ago, is now an expert marksman, and shoots and mortally wounds Tom. Go Metro” screams the poster next to Tom Cruise as he tries to wax Jada and Jamie in an empty Metro train. This is where the director makes a poignant and memorable commentary on how no one in LA uses public transport. Obviously the director of this movie is a big public transportation fan – he takes us out of the cap and onto an exciting shootout on the LA metro. Jamie transforms from a believable dreaming cabbie (His happy place is a little Island in the sea, and his Life Dream is to have an exclusive limo service) to a bizarrely unbelievable hero who saves Jada’s life (Yes, you guessed it, Jada is the last person on Tom’s hit list).Īfter about 1 hour of filming in a taxi, even the director gets bored and hankers for a change of scenery. There are a bunch of folks on the narcotics division, but these look to be feds and they are easily killed.
Because this movie shows, I believe, the LAPD to have a grand total of two cop cars and maybe four cops. And also debunking the myth of the LA police.
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I’m glad Tom is debunking the myth of the quiet, silent, stealthy professional hit man that Hollywood has perpetrated on us for generations. At one point he shoots up a whole bunch of people, including cops, in a LA night club. With each ‘hit’ more and more people get killed (I guess this is where the collateral comes in). Did I mention Tom is the world’s messiest contract killer? It’s obvious he loves his job. It still would have been the tidiest crime scene Tom left behind on this murder spree. I watched the whole movie and it is still not clear to me why Tom didn’t leave the body on the street. Where they promptly forget it for the next six killings or so.
He helps Tom put the body in the trunk of his cab. What do you do? Hoof it right? RUN FOR YOUR LIFE. Say you are a cabbie in LA (I think this happens in LA) and you drive this dude to a shady motel and a dead body falls out of the building and onto your cab. The movie wakes up 10 minutes into Tom’s first appearance in Jamie’s taxi when Tom tosses a dead body out of a second story window and onto Jamie’s taxi, reducing its neatness score from 10 to 0 in 20 seconds flat. After that scene Tom takes over and delivers a somewhat wooden and meandering performance as a philosophical psychopath who earns a living as the world’s messiest hit-man. The best part of the movie is the beginning ten minutes when Jamie and Jada have an interesting discussion about stress and we are introduced to the “dreaming cabbie” persona of Jamie.
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It also looks to be shot on digital, rather than film, which makes for a more TV like impression. Oh, and a lot of the shots are handheld, but with minimal camera shake, which makes things less irritating. Oh, and one of the few movies where Tom plays an aging man. So I guess this is a philosophical movie about life and death. Most of the time in the movie is spent in Jamie’s taxi, going from one murder site to the other with Jamie and Tom engaging in important philosophical discussions in between killings. Together they make an unstoppable combination, or something like that. Tom Cruise is the world’s messiest contract killer and Jamie Foxx is the world’s cleanest taxi driver.
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