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So sincere is their emotional chat that Annie, who’s about to argue a major case, finds herself giving the humble driver her card.Īlso established in this opening scene is the fact that Max, who’s been navigating the city’s congested streets for 12 years, can predict virtually to the minute how long it will take by any route to get from one place to another.
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attorney who surprises herself by exchanging her professional insecurities with Max’s revelation of his own long-term intention to start a limo company. Projecting a fastidiousness underlined by that trusty old standby, quiet desperation, cabby Max (Foxx) engages both the viewer and his initial passenger in an unexpected heart-to-heart he has with the latter Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), is a formidable U.S. It’s a smaller film, but one that - as a trawl through the city’s scary underworld - reminds at times of “Training Day,” but also stands as a worthy Left Coast response to Scorsese’s indelible portraits of nighttime New York, “Taxi Driver” and “After Hours.”
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Everything, from the gun-metal gray of Cruise’s hair and suit, the exceptional selection of precise locations and the dense mix of the soundtrack to the psychological overlays among the characters and Mann’s creative leap that led him to shoot most of the picture on high-definition digital video, evinces an enormous sense of artistic concentration that translates into complete audience absorption in matters at hand.Īfter his excursions into corporate, political and biographical drama in “The Insider” and “Ali,” Mann returns to the home turf he so voluptuously explored in “Heat.” New film is not as ambitious as that staggering 1995 release - it’s like a series of striking pen-and-ink drawings compared with a multicolored mural too big even for the giant wall it’s painted on - and it deflates a bit toward the end, as relatively conventional cat-and-mouse chase dynamics through an office building and subway take front and center after the bracing long-arc build-up. After two failed test screenings in San Jose and Los Angeles, in which the audiences rejected the ending, the theatrical, "happy" ending was shot, in which both Audrey and Seymour survive, and Audrey II is destroyed.While Stuart Beattie’s original script has a clean, forward-driving profile graced by pungent dialogue and shrewdly leavened doses of backstory, there is the unmistakable feeling here of material pushed to the absolute extremes of its potential. Paul Dooley appears as Patrick Martin in this version. In it, Audrey and Seymour are eaten by Audrey II, and, after it becomes a worldwide sensation, the world is taken over by various Audrey IIs (à la a classic B-movie horror flick.) It featured miniature effects by Richard Conway, who worked nearly a year and spent about $5 million on the sequence of Audrey II's takeover, and two songs a reprise of "Somewhere That's Green," in which Audrey, after being attacked by Audrey II, tells Seymour to feed her to the plant after she dies so she can always be with him, and "Don't Feed The Plants," in which an off-screen chorus warns the audience not to feed the plants, no matter what they offer you. A 23 minute alternate ending, faithful to the original, stage ending, was originally shot.