LA cabbie Max Durocher is the type of person who can wax poetic about other
people's lives, which impresses U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie
Farrell, one of his fares, so much that she gives him her telephone number
at the end of her ride. Although a dedicated man as seen through the
efficiency in which he does his work, he can't or won't translate that
eloquence into a better life for himself. He deludes himself into believing
that his now twelve year cabbie job is temporary and that someday he will
own his own limousine service. He even lies to his hospitalized mother that
he already owns one, with a further lie that he tells her as such primarily
to make her happy, rather than the truth which is that he won't do anything
to achieve that dream. One night, Max picks up a well dressed man named
Vincent, who asks Max to be his only fare for the evening. For a flat fee
of $600 - double what Max asks - Vincent wants Max to drive him to five
stops that evening. Max somewhat reluctantly agrees. Max learns the hard
way at their first stop when a body falls from a third story apartment
window and lands dead on top of his cab that Vincent is a contract hit man.
Vincent's main goal, as per his current contract, is to kill five people,
one at each of the stops, but he will not let others get in the way of that
goal, even if it means killing them, including Max. As Vincent forces Max
to continue driving him for the evening, Max tries slyly at every turn to
take back control of his life from Vincent, especially when Max learns of
one of the names on Vincent's hit list. Meanwhile, LAPD narcotics
detective, Ray Fanning, and ultimately the FBI get involved when Vincent's
first victim is associated with a case in which Ray is working undercover.
Ray is able to piece together information which makes him hot on Max and
Vincent's tail.
Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces
have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long
since forgotten--until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an
off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they're about to be indicted
by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the
key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that
Vincent has arrived--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances
cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral--an
expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the
night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as
the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival
become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.
One night in Los Angeles, cab driver Max Durocher picks up a gray-suited
man named Vincent. Vincent offers Max a large sum of money to drive him to
five locations around LA before the night is up. Max accepts, but realizes
that Vincent is a hitman who has been hired to kill five people that night.
Max is forced to drive Vincent around the City of Angels, unsure if he'll
live to see sunrise.
Max Durocher is a night-shift cab driver in Los Angeles. He's planning a
limo company called Island Limos, but has been a cab driver for twelve
years. One night, he picks up a passenger named Vincent who seems like
another ordinary passenger. But when he drops Vincent off at his location
and waits for him as asked, a body falls on his cab, and it becomes clear
that Vincent is actually a hitman, and he's got four more stops to make.
For Max, the dreams of his own limo company are what keep him afloat from
the mundane reminder of his real job: taxi driver, which he has been doing
for over a decade. But one fateful night, Max has one cab fare that he
would never expect named Vincent. He's a smooth, charismatic fellow who is
sharply dressed and apparently wealthy, offering Max an excellent tip if
he'll bring him to five stops throughout Los Angeles. But fate intervenes
and Max soon finds out that Vincent isn't a businessman, but a contract
hitman making his rounds. As the night progresses, Max finds himself under
the microscope of a coldblooded killer. Meanwhile, the police and FBI are
onto Max's cab while the two ultimately play a psychological cat and mouse
game, that will lead to an inevitable climax neither would anticipate.
