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Collateral (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 213 Fresh: 183  Rotten:30 Average Rating: 7.4/10
 
Consensus: Another taut and stylish thriller by Michael Mann.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs

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 Matrix Revolutions") star in the thriller "Collateral," under the direction of... 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]

Genre: Dramas

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

Director: Michael Mann
Screenwriter: Stuart Beattie
Producer: Michael Mann, Julie Richardson
Composer: James Newton Howard

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 12, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40

Audio:

  • DTS 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - French

Additional Release Material:

  • Deleted Scenes With Commentary
  • Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
  • Featurette - 1. CITY OF NIGHT: THE MAKING OF COLLATERAL
  • 2. VISUAL FX: MTA TRAIN
  • 3. Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx Rehearse
  • 4. Shooting On Location : Annie's Office
  • 5. Special Delivery

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Filmographies - 1. Cast
  • 2. Filmmakers
  • Production Notes

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06/24/06
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Collateral is, simply, a perfectly pitched popcorn movie.

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09/19/04
Joe Utichi
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09/18/04
Matthew Turner
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Perhaps the best premise for thrills since Speed, only this time the bad guy's on board and the battle of wits is more philosophical debate than pop quiz.

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09/18/04
Colin Kennedy
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4/5

For Vincent's sharp-witted command of the cab and the echoes of The Third Man and Heat, Collateral is well worth targeting.

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09/14/04
Nev Pierce
BBC
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3.5/5

A superbly well-structured screenplay and an unhurried, sure-handed directorial style. Otherwise, alas, there's not much to it.

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08/12/04
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David Ansen
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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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07/30/07
Rob Gonsalves
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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
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chic, solid filmmaking

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08/20/06
Jay Antani
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12/06/05
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4/5

How does director Michael Mann capture urban twilight so well?

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07/25/05
Uri Lessing
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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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06/17/05
Bill Clark
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Enjoyably unbelievable.

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05/03/05
Nick Schager
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03/05/05
Ethan Alter
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3/4

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

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01/24/05
Jorge Avila Andrade
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The first movie about L.A. at night that really looks like L.A. at night.

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01/16/05
Luke Y. Thompson
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'Collateral' is Tom Cruise's movie, and he and it are impressive.

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