A cab driver picks up a passenger who turns out to be a hit man with five targets for the night, and, being a stranger to LA, keeps the cab driver with him to take him to each of his targets.

Well, you know, I'm not a big fan of Tom "my face is made of plastic" Cruise, but I have been very impressed with some of his more recent movies, like Minority Report and The Last Samurai. This was no exception.

Now, it was a stretch to accept the coincidence that the woman who was in Jamie Foxx's cab before Tom Cruise (and that he got kind o' friendly with, of course) would be the fifth target of Cruise's evening of fun and games. Aside from that leap, though, overall it was a pretty darn good movie. Fast paced, good plot twists, suspense, and Jamie Foxx was very good at being terrified but tough.

And again, Tom Cruise was good. Of course, it's much easier playing a disconnected homicidal hit man than a character who actually has to make the average moviegoer care about who he is and what is happening to him...but still. And his makeup was well done, he actually looked kind o' normal in this one. I still think it's kind of wierd that he can be so perfectly good looking that it's actually an improvement when his face takes some damage...ah well.

Points off for bad behavior: When will moviemakers realize that it is totally unbelieveable to have a woman running fast in spike heels over a slick marble/tile surface? (or any surface, come to think of it...) Any woman who has worn the things and had to run from a hit man would take the extra half a second it would take to kick them off and run barefoot...otherwise, there is no way she could stay on her feet. There's a reason they shot that part of the movie in short bursts, she was probably falling down every other frame. Sigh. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Still very much worth seeing, high heels aside.