Mann never lets the audience settle into familiar patterns, crafting a moody, mesmerizing battle between good and evil.
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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 6, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $100,003,492
Synopsis: Three-time Academy Award® 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 Award® 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 Award® 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"), Oscar® 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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Reviews for Collateral
Visually, 'Collateral' locates the post-apocalypse landscape growing within a city still waiting for its apocalypse.
... first and foremost a director's movie ... [one] that shows off Mann's endlessly restless eye -- and his flair for finding arresting images in the unlikeliest places.
Foxx's performance is a revelation: he is completely convincing and understated, moving effortlessly through a wide range of ... conflicts both comical and severe.
...first and foremost a continuation of director Michael Mann's love affair with nocturnal urban landscapes.
[Mann] covers up for the film's entirely routine climactic chase with an innovative use of windows, glass and reflections.
As realistic as an episode of HBO’s Taxicab Confessions, without that stimulating voyeuristic quality modern audiences crave.
[Mann] has unimpeachable visual flair ... spinning through camera angles to aptly demonstrate the disconnected, disjointed feel of L.A.
Reminiscent of the orchestrated mayhem of vintage John Woo, this is showpiece kinetic filmmaking.
Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx give the movie tension and momentum, and director Michael Mann gives it something most action flicks lack: style.
Someone's been playing a little too much Hitman on their PlayStation 2.
Lands solidly in the worthwhile category, rather than the slush pile.
Nice guy Tom Cruise is bad — very bad — in Michael Mann's new movie, Collateral. And that's good.
Mann has made a solid film here, effectively atmospheric and intelligent, minor defects notwithstanding.
In a summertime season full of gee-whiz spectacle and generally mindless gizmos, it's exciting to see an "action flick" this mature and refined and well-conceived.
On paper, the plot for Collateral looks like it could be any one of a hundred summer action flicks -- but onscreen, it's one in a million.
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