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Collateral (2004)

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Reviews Counted:221

Fresh:191

Rotten:30

Average Rating:7.4/10

Consensus: Another taut and stylish thriller by Michael Mann.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence and language

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Aug 6, 2004 Wide

Box Office: $100,003,492

Synopsis: Three-time Academy AwardŽ nominee Tom Cruise ("Magnolia," "Jerry Maguire," "Born on the Fourth of July"), Jamie Foxx ("Ali," "Any Given Sunday") and Jada Pinkett Smith ("The Matrix Reloaded," "The... Three-time Academy AwardŽ nominee Tom Cruise ("Magnolia," "Jerry Maguire," "Born on the Fourth of July"), Jamie Foxx ("Ali," "Any Given Sunday") and Jada Pinkett Smith ("The Matrix Reloaded," "The Matrix Revolutions") star in the thriller "Collateral," under the direction of three-time Academy AwardŽ nominee Michael Mann ("The Insider"). Max (Jamie Foxx) has lived the mundane life of a cab driver for 12 years. The faces have come and gone from his rearview mirror, people and places he's long since forgotten...until tonight. Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a contract killer. When an offshore narcotrafficking cartel learns they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witnesses, and the last stage is tonight. Tonight, Vincent arrived in L.A...and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max's taxicab, and Max becomes collateral-an expendable person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the LAPD and FBI race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival becomes dependent on each other in ways neither would have imagined. Jada Pinkett Smith stars as United States Attorney Annie Farrell. Rounding out the main cast are Mark Ruffalo ("In the Cut"), Peter Berg ("Cop Land"), OscarŽ nominee Javier Bardem ("Before Night Falls") and Bruce McGill ("Runaway Jury"). A co-production of DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, "Collateral" is being produced by Michael Mann and Julie Richardson from a screenplay by Stuart Beattie. Frank Darabont, Chuck Russell, Rob Fried and Peter Giuliano served as executive producers. -- © DreamWorks [More]

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Foxx, Mark Ruffalo

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Foxx, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Javier Bardem, Bruce McGill, Irma P. Hall

Director: Michael Mann

Director: Michael Mann
Screenwriter: Stuart Beattie
Producer: Michael Mann, Julie Richardson
Composer: James Newton Howard
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution LLC

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Cruise thrills in his first killer role and has found a worthy collaborator in director Michael Mann.

Full Review Source: FilmsInReview.com | comment Comment
08/05/04
Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

Slick, stylish and a silver Cruise.

Full Review Source: Denton Record Chronicle (TX) | comment Comment
08/07/04
Boo Allen
Boo Allen
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

It's a good thing Mann is such a master director, because the script to Collateral needs all the help it can get.

Full Review Source: NYC Film Critic | comment Comment
03/05/05
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
NYC Film Critic

[Mann] covers up for the film's entirely routine climactic chase with an innovative use of windows, glass and reflections.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
08/06/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

I loved it.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

chic, solid filmmaking

Full Review Source: Cinema Writer | comment Comment
08/20/06
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Cinema Writer

A pretty cool idea, however, two or three "unbelievabilities" soured the film for me; they might not for you.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
08/02/04
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

A slim drink of thin beer, remarkable only as evidence that Mann might have a modern masterpiece in him if he were cut loose and allowed to roam around in his own obsessions.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
08/03/04
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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A roller-coaster ride of transient pleasures.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
08/04/04
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

'Mann logra un producto que si bien no es nada del otro mundo, su atmósfera y las actuaciones valen el precio de admisión'

Full Review Source: Moviola | comment Comment
01/24/05
Jorge Avila Andrade
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola

Where Mann makes it his own is in his sharp, clean execution, visceral action scenes, and images saturated in the hyperintense colors of the neon and florescent night.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
08/05/04
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Outstanding performances and an air-tight script elevate this straightforward story into a formidable thriller.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
08/05/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

A genuinely original modern thriller.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
08/06/04
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

If Collateral's occasionally far-fetched plot inhibits it from becoming state-of-the-art Mann, it's still a terrific piece of filmmaking.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
08/08/04
Lewis Beale
Lewis Beale
Film Journal International

Visually, 'Collateral' locates the post-apocalypse landscape growing within a city still waiting for its apocalypse.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
08/06/04
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Collateral isn't a shockingly original motion picture. But the strength of the lead performances and the stylish direction of Michael Mann obscure the weaknesses in plotting and credibility.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
08/06/04
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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A single LA night compacted into two gripping hours of four big hits and one anticlimactic miss.

Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | comment Comment
09/18/04
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette

Mann works intelligent, polished magic on a B-movie noir script that would (have been) a catch-phrase-fraught action-explosion flick in the hands of most big-budget directors.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
08/04/04
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

(Director Michael Mann) creates a noirish atmosphere in which you can almost smell the danger.

Full Review Source: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | comment Comment
08/08/04
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Flim flam funnyman, turned film man, Jamie Foxx, stole this film ...

Full Review Source: Blunt Review | comment Comment
08/06/04
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
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