A dead body can’t ride around on the LA Metro all day. When a train gets to the end of the line, it stops and everybody gets out and a new train leaves from the same station.
I didn’t like the fact that Jamie Foxx and Jada Pinkett Smith were haggling over a cab fare from LAX to Downtown L.A.
Those fares are set in advance. You can only haggle if you are going to some other part of L.A.
I believe in the commentary they said he was basically casing the joint.
Finally saw it on video tonight. I mostly agree with the others. The buildup was much better than the ending. The rules of these movies are fixed in stone: the good guy and the bad guy have to have a confrontation, with the girl in the middle if at all possible, and the bad guy has to die. There is absolutely no good way to get to that point by any number of rational steps. You have to step out into space somewhere and let momentum carry you, like Wile E. Coyote.
But the last scene bothered my wife and me, even when we went back and over it frame by frame.
[spoiler]My wife said that Jaime Foxx killed Vincent by shooting him in the right side of the chest during the final gunfight. Vincent does open his coat to show a big bloodstain. Problem is that he doesn’t act like someone who is fatally shot. He sits down quietly, connects the plot up to the earlier anecdote and falls asleep with no blood leaking from his lips. Worse, the back of his jacket can clearly be seen. There is no hole, no blood. Actually, there’s no hole on the front of the jacket either. Jaime Foxx can be seen in slo-mo shooting most of his bullets into the ceiling for no good reason, but his one shot through the broken window is straight ahead, which would be to the left of Vincent’s body.
Is this just bad editing and continuity? Were we supposed to think instead that the combination of the car crash and the bullet to the head worn him down in the end?
And what’s with an officer of the court leaving a dead body on a train and walking off? Even if she was taking Jaime Foxx in under arrest - not likely - you don’t leave a dead body and crime scene alone for any innocent subway rider to walk in on. Admittedly, we had long left reality by then.[/spoiler]
One bump, in hopes of getting an answer.
[spoiler]If you’ve been chased by a professional hit man throughout Downtown Los Angeles are you going to worry about when you call the authorities? I would just try to get to a safe place. Then I would call the authorities.
As for the death of Tom Cruise, I have no idea. [/spoiler]
Good stuff, Aes. I recommend it.