Collateral Reviews
Lyles' Movie Files
The year's best action thriller with excellent performances from its two leads and Mann's brilliant direction making something as pedestrian as a taxi ride a pulse-pounding thrill ride.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Common Sense Media
Powerful but violent thriller -- not for kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Metropolis
Mann takes a predictably clichéd, far-fetched crime yarn and transforms it into a fascinating thriller.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Antagony & Ecstasy
If anyone is ever to mount an argument for the superiority of video over film, this movie would of necessity be very near to the center of that argument.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Film4
Awesome vision and a compellingly villainous Tom Cruise save this cool contemporary noir from its lukewarm patches.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Urban Cinefile
Every bit as satisfying as a thriller should be, keeping us hanging at every turn. As the credits roll, we are out of breath.
Sacramento News & Review
Strong performances and Mann's muscular direction provide plenty of tension, atmosphere and action-packed teeth.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Dark Horizons
It's a solid servicable thriller, one that works throughout watching it but not one that stands particularly out from the bunch...
eFilmCritic.com
A welcome change-of-pace dramatic thriller, in which the formerly too-emphatic director hints at depth rather than insisting on it.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Big Picture Big Sound
Both actors and the director are having a great time and it shows in every frame.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top Critic
Film Threat
Still a hell of a ride, but could've used a smoother landing.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Film Threat
Mann's taxi driver saga may not quite reach the level of art but, anyway you cut it, it's anything but standard fare.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
www.kcactive.com
How does director Michael Mann capture urban twilight so well?
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| Original Score: 4/5
FromTheBalcony
Collateral takes a premise that is otherwise flawed and makes it into one of the most compelling films of the summer.
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| Original Score: A-
Lessons of Darkness
Enjoyably unbelievable.
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| Original Score: B-
NYC Film Critic
It's a good thing Mann is such a master director, because the script to Collateral needs all the help it can get.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Moviola
'Mann logra un producto que si bien no es nada del otro mundo, su atmósfera y las actuaciones valen el precio de admisión'
| Original Score: 3/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A great, darkly seductive ride.
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| Original Score: 3/5
