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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.

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

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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Pitched between interludes of anxious intimacy and equally nerve-shredding set pieces, Michael Mann's edgy new thriller scores its points with underhand precision.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/05/04
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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Well-cast and well-acted, top to bottom.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
08/05/04
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

A suspenseful, jolting and even thrilling ride.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
08/05/04
Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News

A long nighttime ride with a hitman and a tight script that produces a dramatic punch at every third mile marker.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
08/05/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

Stylishly made, if less intellectually resonant than first-rate Mann films like Ali and The Insider.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
08/05/04
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

Collateral is an ultimate thrill ride through the mean streets of L.A., powered by a killer performance (pun intended) from Tom Cruise.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
08/05/04
Kit Bowen
Kit Bowen
Hollywood.com

Cruise is a little out of his range but that works oddly well, giving him a little frisson of uncertainty underneath the Terminator-like singlemindedness of the character.

Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
08/05/04
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

Vincent's ferocity (designated by Cruise's grim-face mode) is the film's most distracting cliché.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
08/05/04
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

As much a dark, odd couple comedy as it is a quirky, efficient little thriller.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
08/05/04
Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
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Taut, exciting and intelligent, Collateral is just the movie this summer needed.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
08/05/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Arguably the first film Mann has made that marries the painstaking style of Heat and Manhunter with the gripping substance of The Insider.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
08/05/04
Phoebe Flowers
Phoebe Flowers
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Mann hits a new peak, orchestrating action, atmosphere and bruising humor with a poet's eye for urban darkness.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
08/05/04
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

[Jamie Foxx is] the reason to see Collateral, as he walks into the frame and walks off with the picture.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
08/05/04
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

Mann's film makes Tom Cruise fun to watch again, because he occasionally plays someone besides Tom Cruise.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
08/05/04
Newsday
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Collateral has such classy trappings, you're constantly expecting more -- but while there may be less here than meets the eye, this is solid stuff in the midst of Hollywood's dog days.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/05/04
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

Outstanding performances and an air-tight script elevate this straightforward story into a formidable thriller.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
08/05/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

As violent thrillers go, Collateral goes down quite nicely, stirring up hardly any acid reflux at all.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
08/05/04
Rex Reed
Rex Reed
New York Observer

A throwback to Mann's 1995 Heat.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
08/05/04
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

An expertly-made thriller.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
08/05/04
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune

Cruise and Foxx are great, and this is easily the most accessible Michael Mann film ever.

Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
08/05/04
John Venable
John Venable
Supercala.com
 
 
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