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The Best Reviewed Thriller of 2004
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Collateral
It's a classic scenario that keeps moviegoers on the edge of their seats: an innocent man suddenly finds himself hunted by both the police and the bad guys. It worked to perfection in North by Northwest, and it's a premise that makes Collateral the best reviewed thriller of 2004, with an adjusted score of 78.98 and 85% of the critics giving this Hitchcockian dark night of the soul a big thumbs up. Collateral is directed by Michael Mann and features strong performances by Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, the latter giving a breakout performance as a cab driver who finds himself an accessory to murder when he picks up a hitman. Bruce Newman of the San Jose Mercury News raves, "Mann puts Collateral through its paces so elegantly that even the most predictable scenes deliver a wallop," while Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer writes, "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." And Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post asserts that, "Collateral is the best kind of genre filmmaking: It plays by the rules, obeys the traditions and is both familiar and fresh at once." Collateral bested Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate and the low-budget-but-high-drama shark tale, Open Water. Let us know what your pick for this category is here.
Data collected on January 11, 2005 |
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