Dawn of the Geeks

An excellent movie. Jamie Foxx plays a cab driver (Max) with big dreams who’s been temporarily driving a cab for 12 years to get everything in order for his new business. Tom Cruise plays a hitman (Vincent) hired by a crime boss to take out a list of people who are set to testify againt the criminal group. Vincent gets in Max’s cab and pays him a lot of money to be his personal driver for the night. At the first hit something goes wrong and now Max can’t be unaware of what his client is doing. Who knew Foxx could play a serious role. The entire movie is well paced and engrossing. The twists and turns will keep you from guessing what happens next all the way to the end. It’s rated R purely for the violence and language. My only complaint is the blatent Bacardi Silver ads. The two will be driving to the next location and the camera will pan up to ad on top of the taxi and hold for a bit. But, it is one of the few movies that can have an extended period of time with no dialog and still hold your interest.

M. Night Shyamalan has completely lost whatever touch he had when he came out with The Sixth Sense. Every movie after just gets more and more overly dramatic and shallow. It’s 108 minutes but it seems like an eternity. If you havn’t figured out what the twist is before you see the movie, then you’re behind on your knowledge of movie cliche’s and standard stories. The only thing I didn’t see coming was the final minor twist which just made me hate the movie more. M Night also needs to stop showing up in his movies. Hitchcock always has a little cameo in his movies but he had the sense to not say anything. Hitcock also made better movies. Although who knows, Hitchcock made a lot of films and not all of them are considered classics. M Night might eventually get back into the game but at the current rate he’s going the next movie is going to be three hours long, consist of no plot and have at least a 15 minute pause between each line of dialog.

The only thing I’ll give this movie is that the plot isn’t absurd like his previous two movies. It’s just very poorly executed.