Collateral

Released: 2004
Crime
Director: Michael Mann
Starring:  Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx
Running Time: 120 minutes
Rated: R

The breakdown: A hit man hijacks a Los Angeles taxi and driver to drive him around to his various jobs for one night.

Let me preface by saying Tom Cruise is in it and that's a mark already against the film if you ask me.  That aside, the movie's quite unrealistic and hard to believe.
A hit man decides to hire a taxi for the night to take him around L.A. so he can kill multiple targets.  The driver is not told what's going on until it's unavoidable and an accident is made by the hit man.  After the driver learns of the true intent of his fare he wants out, but the hit man holds him at gun point and "hijacks" the taxi, demanding the driver stay with him and continue on their original plan.

I'm not sure why Tom Cruise's hair was made to be silver.....Could they not get Richard Gere for this role?  Was it to make him look older, more distinguished, less strange?
Cruise has never been a great actor no matter what his hair color is, so that didn't do anything but make Cruise look even stranger than he normally does.
I used to think Jamie Foxx was a good actor until I started to notice that he acted just like he did in The Soloist when his character in that did the same things that this other character did.  So maybe, he's not as good as I thought he was if he's a one trick pony, or has a very small range.

Overall, I would say this movie could be easily skipped in favor of a better action movie.
2 out of 5 stubs for Javier Bardem who was very good.