IMDB 7.6
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Max (Jaime Foxx) is a taxi driver, and he picks up a nice young lady, Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith). Annie is a prosecutor, and they hit it off. She leaves her number with him.
He doesn't have as much luck with his next fare. He picks up Vincent, who is a contract killer. Vincent has a list of people he must knock off that night, and he is having Max drive him around.
Max is a little flawed. He keeps dreaming about starting his limo services, but he never gets around to it. That is why he is still driving the taxi.
As the night goes on, Max and Vincent get close in a strange sort of way. Vincent is a ruthless killer, and Vincent can't believe him, but you get a sense they are becoming something like friends.
In the end, Max saves Annie, and has to shoot and kill Vincent.
A really good, very different noir film.
He doesn't have as much luck with his next fare. He picks up Vincent, who is a contract killer. Vincent has a list of people he must knock off that night, and he is having Max drive him around.
Max is a little flawed. He keeps dreaming about starting his limo services, but he never gets around to it. That is why he is still driving the taxi.
As the night goes on, Max and Vincent get close in a strange sort of way. Vincent is a ruthless killer, and Vincent can't believe him, but you get a sense they are becoming something like friends.
In the end, Max saves Annie, and has to shoot and kill Vincent.
A really good, very different noir film.
Quotes:
Max: Well, who was he?
Vincent: What do you care? Have you ever heard of Rwanda?
Max: Yes, I know Rwanda.
Vincent: Well, tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody's killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Max?
Max: What?
Vincent: Did you join Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Whales, Greenpeace, or something? No. I off one fat Angelino and you throw a hissy fit.
Max: Man, I don't know any Rwandans.
Vincent: You don't know the guy in the trunk, either.
Vincent: Guy gets on the subway and dies. Think anybody'll notice?
Vincent: Get with it. Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars, in a speck on one in a blink. That's us, lost in space. The cop, you, me... Who notices?
Vincent: Take comfort in knowing you never had a choice.
Shit. I think he's dead.
Vincent: Good guess.
Max: You killed him?
Vincent: No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall killed him.
Vincent: Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.
Max: I Ching? What are you talking about, man? You threw a man out of a window.
Vincent: I didn't throw him. He *fell*
Max: Well what did he do to you?
Vincent: What?
Max: What did he do to *you*?
Vincent: Nothing. I only met him tonight.
Max: You just met him once and you killed him like that?
Vincent: What? I should only kill people after I get to know them?