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Collateral (2004)

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Reviews Counted:43

Fresh:36

Rotten:7

Average Rating:7.2/10

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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Throughout the gruesome cat-and-mouse game being played by Vincent and Max in Collateral, there's something psychologically, dramatically and even sociologically interesting going on.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
08/16/04
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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This is a tense, first-rate thriller.

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08/12/04
Richard Roeper
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Ebert & Roeper
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Most of the time we are with Cruise and Foxx, and their interplay is never less than galvanizing.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
08/08/04
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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After that promising start, Collateral ratchets down, gradually, to being only average.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
08/07/04
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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If Collateral is all formula, it's polished to a fine sheen.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/06/04
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Collateral is the best kind of genre filmmaking: It plays by the rules, obeys the traditions and is both familiar and fresh at once.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/06/04
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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[Tom Cruise has] never been this convincingly wicked.

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08/06/04
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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It's straight-up entertainment, not something to see and then talk about a month later, but definitely something to enjoy.

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08/06/04
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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The best thing Mann brings to his picture is a strong sense of time and place.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/06/04
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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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.

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08/06/04
James Berardinelli
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Feels a lot like the sort of stock, early-'80s thrillers that Mann once tried to make extinct.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
08/06/04
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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Though it is a far less ambitious entertainment than Tarantino's masterpiece, it has its moments.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
08/06/04
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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Mann brings some of the style and assurance he brought to Heat and Thief.

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08/06/04
Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
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A fairly typical bang-bang exercise with outrageous shootouts, lots of dead bodies and well-placed comic relief.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
08/06/04
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Intelligent, elegantly written and well-acted.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
08/06/04
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Collateral takes us on a wild night ride through Los Angeles.

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08/06/04
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Arguably the best studio film of the summer.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
08/06/04
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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A suspense thriller with little real suspense and few thrills.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment Comment
08/06/04
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
CNN.com
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This is a rare thriller that's as much character study as sound and fury.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
08/06/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Collateral is the kind of sleek Maserati that can make men weak in the knees, but the sad truth is that it has a straight-4 under the hood.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/06/04
Ty Burr
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