Collateral

2004 Directed by Michael Mann

It started like any other night.

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

Tom Cruise Jamie Foxx Jada Pinkett Smith Mark Ruffalo Peter Berg Bruce McGill Irma P. Hall Barry Shabaka Henley Javier Bardem Steven Kozlowski Richard T. Jones James McBride Klea Scott Bodhi Elfman Debi Mazar Emilio Rivera Thomas Rosales, Jr. Inmo Yuon Angelo Tiffe Jason Statham

Alternative Titles

Colateral: Lugar y tiempo equivocado, Sŭuchastnikŭt, I Diadromí, Kolateral, Souchastnik, Spivuchasnyk

drama thriller crime

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Review by Evan ★★★★½ 11

It's truly incredible how many GREAT movies Tom Cruise has been in. Whether it's a drama like Eyes Wide Shut, or an action movie like Top Gun, and let's not forget a comedic role like Tropic Thunder; he is always in top form. There'e no denying that Tommy C is one of the best actors of all-time. I might not be the biggest fan of the real life Cruise, but as an actor I absolutely love the guy. Collateral is just another great Tommy C movie to add to the ongoing list.
Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★½ 1

if I had to answer a jazz riddle to save my life, I would die
Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 2

Mann's MY DINNER WITH ANDRE.
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 23

"I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies. Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices. "
Can I just be honest? I don't really know a lot about film. I may talk big about the depths of thematic development or the meaning of cinematic style, but like the rest of us I'm just making it up as I go. But if there's one thing I know for sure about movies it's that I prefer film to digital. I think digital filmmaking is good for little more than lowering costs. I love film stock. Sure, some of that comes…
Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 7

two lonely specks in the cosmos pass each other by and irreversibly change courses. dunno why the sensitivity and existentialism of this hit me harder than it has on previous watches but chris cornell howling into the fuzzy orange sky almost had me in tears! right when it hit midnight i was watching the club shootout, just sublime, happy new year ya'll.
Review by onthewall2983 ★★★★★ 6

One element I haven't seen much in the praise of this film is actually how funny it is. There is a subtle but direct layer of levity, which is mostly used to ease the very palpable tension. I saw it twice in theaters and both times one particular line got a hearty response from the audience. Nearly all of it surrounds the chemistry of it's two leads, and the individual choices they made regarding their characters.
Tom Cruise (in arguably what's a career-best turn) as Vincent sometimes uses very flat sarcasm sometimes to get his point across ("I shot him, the bullets and the fall killed him"), that in no way lessens the amount of menace he puts across in…

Recent reviews

Review by Rhys Jones ★★★★½

Collateral is fucking awesome.
Tom Cruise absolutely kills it, but when Jamie Foxx takes his glasses off when he's talking to Javier Bardem I audibly gasped. And when the audioslave song played.
Review by Jake Blackman ★★★★

"Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don't you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln town car. That girl,you can't even call that girl. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab?"
Sometimes you just have to meet the right psychopath to see things in perspective…
Review by Nenad Todorović ★★★

Netter, wenn auch in meinen Augen vergessenswerter Thriller, der phasenweise an seiner eigenen Ästhetik scheitert. Michael Mann konnte mich noch nie zu 100 % begeistern und das wird bis auf Weiteres wohl auch so bleiben. Dennoch kann man hiermit Nichts falsch machen und wird 120 Minuten gut unterhalten. Gibt schlimmeres.
Review by katherine

Tom cruise is a very unnerving and off-putting screen presence so every director who plays into that is smart (like me). also this film is extremely cool and fun (like me)
Review by KeesRijborz ★★★½

Nobody survives without the sound of jazz during killing season
Review by Caleb ★★★

I didn’t absolutely hate Tom Cruise in this movie, so it has to be doing something right. Keyword: absolutely. A run-of-the-mill action flick with a slightly unorthodox premise. At times this film tows the line of genius in its style and execution, subdued only by its predictable writing and safe acting choices. Javier Bardem, though onscreen for mere minutes, steals the show as intimidating crime boss Felix. The onscreen chemistry between he and Jamie Foxx’s character Max is intense and such a joy to watch... and then Tom Cruise is back onscreen. Oh well.
Review by Cinema Explosion! ★★★★

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Review by dustinwaldman 1

Frequently beautiful and transcendent hdvideo especially the weird handheld car exteriors and underlit stuff
Remember this feeling important to me when I was like 15 and saw movie stars in surreal digital for the first time (Love seeing Tom cruise in smooth motion)
Review by Luca Trovati ★★★★½

Uno dei miei film preferiti di sempre, nonostante un finale che mi fa bestemmiare ogni dannata volta.