Movie: Collateral
Aaron and I recently saw the Collateral, starting Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx plays a cab driver who finds himself the hostage chauffer of hit man Tom Cruise, while he works through a list of hits. The movie had a promising start and I was enjoying it until about three quarters of the way through. Without giving anything away, the last half hour of the movie relies so heavily on coincidence and clichés that it was almost unwatchable. Presumably we’re suppose to believe that Jamie Foxx’s character has been changed by the evening and that this change drives his actions in the last portion of the film. Really though, it just comes off as silly and trite.
