Bold statement: this is the best non-documentary ever shot on video. End stop. Bolder statement: this movie would be one of the all time greatest in history if it was shot on film. There is never a reason to shoot on video. I don’t know what the hell they were thinking. Now — luckily — this is all at night, the camera keeps moving and the backdrop is LA, oftentimes from on high, so it still looks great. And Mann has always been an absolute master at camera placement. Dude just knows where to stick the lens. What about the story? It’s great. I bought it. Modern Hitchcock. For most of the time it is a straight, plot-light classic like The Getaway or The Day of the Jackal or Point Blank. Then there is a twist and, what the hell, it works. Jamie Foxx is absolutely terrific and Tom Cruise is too. And, humorously enough, Jada Pinkett Smith plays a character named Annie Farrell.