Good twist but ending could have been better.
Cab Driver Mitch Lawrence (Rob Lowe), diagnosed with interminable cancer
and given less than six months to live, decides to take up a $50,000 offer from his client Lou Webber (Joe Mantegna) to eliminate a drug dealer who is stalking him. Reluctantly Mitch, who needs the cash for his family, commits the murder, and then his whole life goes into a tailspin. This is a very good movie until perhaps the last third, when the plot sadly degenerates into a \'let\'s chase and catch the bad guy\' sequence. Any movie with Joe Mantegna is usually a plus point but in this case, he is sadly out of form and his character under developed.. 
A bit one-dimensional
This movie has a nice twist, and Lowe and Mantegna act fine. But it
moved a little slowly, and was one-dimensional in that we spend too much time with the hero, Lowe. I liked the bohemian aspect, though, of the "struggling actors" who drove cabs. The film was just a bit too cold and distant, and I didn't really feel involved. The plot is quite interesting, but the feel of the movie seemed a bit "thin". I can't put my finger on it, but my guess is that maybe the film meandered too much trying to play the sympathy card (lowe's troubles with his wife, his finding out about cancer, the couple's financial troubles and expecting a baby), that it seemed a bit unnecessary. But I still have to give this film a passing 6 because of the original plot, and great acting by Lowe in creating a highly sympathetic character, both of which kept me watching.. |
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