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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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Another winning Michael Mann character study (see: The Insider, Heat, Thief) with Jamie Foxx revelatory in the lead.

Full Review Source: Movie Boeuf | comment Comment
08/30/04
David N. Butterworth
David N. Butterworth
Movie Boeuf

Em um ano marcado por produções medíocres, Colateral acaba merecendo destaque – não por seus méritos, mas por eliminação.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
08/26/04
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

I empathized with Foxx's plight: Collateral dragged me on a long, violent ride in the dark to nowhere.

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
08/25/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Mann skips off convention like a stone on a river...impassively observing his Hitchcockian hero: dragged into action and struggling to save the day from a sympathetic devil.

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
08/23/04
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

Mann is not a playwright who films his work. He's an instinctive visual intelligence; a cinematic fauvist working with a coded color palette.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
08/23/04
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

...Mann's decision to shoot Collateral using digital cameras is baffling, particularly when you consider how effectively he's used film in the past.

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
08/21/04
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

The story is compelling, the action fast and the acting very good.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | comment Comment
08/19/04
Vince Koehler
Vince Koehler
Entertainment Spectrum

Cruise's performance is a fine one, nicely seasoned with just the right touch of piquantness.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
08/19/04
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

No review available.

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08/18/04
Steven Snyder
Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies

A refreshingly mature and stable actioner with a gritty confidence. There’s an urban subtle slickness about Collateral that resonates so quietly and convincingly

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
08/17/04
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

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.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
08/16/04
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer

Cruise turns in perhaps his best performance, flashing his trademark smile just once behind his raggedy, greying stubble.

Full Review Source: Film and Felt | comment Comment
08/15/04
Gabe Leibowitz
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

Clearly one of the year’s most impressive and sustained directorial tour-de-forces.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
08/15/04
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

The essence of Mann.

Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | comment Comment
08/15/04
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

A brilliant example of great characters and conversation.

Full Review Source: CineScene.com | comment Comment
08/13/04
Mark Sells
Mark Sells
CineScene.com

I got actual, physical chills, not just because the movie is nifty-cool, though it is certainly that, but because it is metal-cool, brrrr-cool, glass-panes-at-midnight cool.

Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks | comment Comment
08/13/04
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks

This stylish yet restrained thriller finds Michael Mann indulging most of his best qualities and few of his worst.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
08/12/04
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly

... Foxx’s sublime performance is not to be missed.

Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly | comment Comment
08/12/04
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

This is a tense, first-rate thriller.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
08/12/04
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper

The interesting parts of Collateral never coalesce into a satisfying whole - and the enterprise falls apart in the finale.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
08/11/04
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune
 
 
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