Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Cinematography
First major digital feature—those sodium-vapor streetlights hit different.
Acting
Foxx's panic versus Cruise's glacial calm—chemistry forged in tension.
Direction
Mann turns a Toyota into the most claustrophobic space in cinema.
Director
Michael Mann
Tom Cruise
Vincent
Jamie Foxx
Max Durocher
Jada Pinkett Smith
Annie Farrell
Mark Ruffalo
Det. Ray Fanning
Peter Berg
Richard Weidner
Javier Bardem
Felix Reyes-Torrena
Bruce McGill
Frank Pedrosa
Klea Scott
Zee
Barry Shabaka Henley
Daniel Baker
Irma P. Hall
Ida Durocher
Richard T. Jones
Traffic Cop #1
Jamie McBride
Traffic Cop #2
Troy Blendell
Morgue Attendant
Emilio Rivera
Paco
Bodhi Elfman
Young Professional Man
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cruise prepared by working incognito as a FedEx courier, practicing anonymity in plain sight.
Mann shot the coyote sequence spontaneously—real animal, real freeway, pure unplanned magic.
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