Collateral

My parents were watching this when I arrived at their house this evening, so I admit I missed the first 45 minutes or so.  But the rest of it was good - at least a good performance by Jamie Foxx - and the story was sufficiently interesting to stick around in the living room and see it to the end.  Foxx plays Max, a cab driver who is tricked and coerced into chauffeuring around Vincent, a hit man played by Tom Cruise.  Through threatened and plenty of actual violence, Vincent forces Max to help him with a series of murders.  Tension escalates as Max tries different angles of escape, until he learns that a woman he likes is the target of Vincent's next hit.

Collateral
2004, 120 minutes, directed by Michael Mann