Christine Dominguez Neil

To be fair, I didn't finish watching it. I love action movies and don't even mind the Tom Cruise ones (I'm not a big fan of him in particular). But this was incredibly unrealistic... And I am one of those people who is able to suspend reality when watching movies. First off, taxis in LA are rare. They're not waiting at the airport or even much on streets. Generally have to call a company not flag one down. (Yes, I'm a life long LA resident...mid-city about 10 minutes from downtown and 15 from the airport, so I'd see taxis if they were rolling the roads of LA.) I let that slide. If it serves the story, I'm good with it. I liked the Foxx character. Even tolerated the over-acted too cool for LA character of Cruise. I even overlooked the premise problem... Why would a hitman on a killing spree hire a cab in the first place, much less hire the SAME cab all night? And give the cabbie his name? But the line was drawn when the body flies from the window and lands squarely on the spot where the cab happens to be parked...come on. Also, no cab driver of 12 years is going to wait in the back alley of a downtown dilapidated apartment building for an unknown amount of time. Puhleese. Also when he says, "I can't stay here double parked"... Ha. Double parking is an LA requirement at least once a week if youre a driver... and at night there is really no monitoring. But the BIGGEST problem... why would the Cruise character keep the cab driver around? Driver has seen his face, knows his name, and hitman knows him all of 7 minutes. Seems like a hitman would have shot him, got his briefcase and walked away. There was no motivation to keep him around. I turned it off just a little more than 7 minutes in. Cannot figure out why it's on top movies in Netflix. Also, again, my realism bar for movies is very low... So I suggest skipping this one unless you think of it as a fantasy movie in an alternate reality where logic doesn't exist and LA isn't an actual place.