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Tom Cruise puts away his trademark toothsome grin to play Vincent, a cold-blooded hitman, in this edgy thriller from director Michael Mann. After hijacking a taxi and its driver, Vincent embarks on a series of ruthlessly efficient assassinations across night-time LA while the hapless cabbie (Jamie Foxx) tries to work out ways to escape. Meanwhile, LA cops and the FBI are closing in. Cruise, sporting steel-grey hair, is well cast against type and is surprisingly effective as the killer, but it's Michael Mann's astonishing style that really marks the film out. Shot on a mixture of film and digital video, the night-time lights of LA look alternately moody, surreal and dangerous. In fact, if the film has a problem, it's that the style occasionally becomes oppressive and threatens to overwhelm the serviceable but slender plot. AS
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Running time
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114min
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Country of origin
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US
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Genre
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Action Crime Thriller
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Stuart Beattie
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Theatrical distributor
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UIP
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UK cinema certificate
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15
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UK cinema release date
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September 2004
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Award |
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| Academy 2004 |
Actor in a Supporting Role |
Jamie Foxx |
Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2004 |
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
Jamie Foxx |
Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2004 |
Best Screenplay (Original) |
Stuart Beattie |
Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2004 |
The David Lean Award for the Best Achievement in Direction |
Michael Mann |
Nominee |
| Golden Globe 2004 |
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Motion Picture |
Jamie Foxx |
Nominee |
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