Time For A Movie Review!: The Sequel

Collateral

For this movie, I had high hopes. I'd just recently watched both Minority Report and The Last Samurai and felt that Tom Cruise was actually making good movies again. That, and I love a movie where an innocent bystander is forced to test his morality.

This one just didn't cut it.

The premise is interesting. Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a cold hearted assassin sent to kill several important witnesses for some major case. Honestly, I don't recall what the case is, but, that's hardly important. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a damn fine cab driver, and person, with big dreams. Basically, Vincent hires Max to take him around to 5 locations that night, supposedly to get some real estate papers signed. Trouble is, Max finds out Vincent is really busting caps in witness asses when a body falls out a window onto his cab. Dead giveaway really.

So, Vincent forces Max to go along with him often playing with Max's mind and making him do some wild shiznit.

Sadly, for me anyway, the wild shiznit tended to be predictable and didn't happen nearly often enough. The movie was downright slow. Suspense, action, then a pause. More suspense, more action, and another pause. Action. Pause. Suspense. Pause.

Pauses seemed to last roughly 15 minutes or more (Could be wrong. I'm not a freak in a theatre with a stop watch). Far too long for a 2 hour movie. That and the suspense, wasn't overly suspenseful. As I said before, it tended to be predictable. But, honestly, what movies aren't somewhat predictable anymore?

All in all, I've seen worse movies. I just wish I hasn't paid to see this one in the theatre. The story wasn't horrible, just the pace and ending. It could have been a much better film with a more climactic ending, but, I'm not a director so I'll just hush up.

Still, I say it might be worth renting someday.

That guy was a damn good cab driver.