Part of Action Distraction
Vincent (a silver-haired Tom Cruise) is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a hapless cabbie with big dreams and little to show for it who takes the wrong fare. Now, Max has to transport Vincent on his next job –– one night, five stops, five hits, and a getaway. After this fateful night, neither man will ever be the same again. Tonight, everything is changing…. Superstar action auteur Michael Mann (HEAT) directs a powerhouse cast, including Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo, in this stylish, mile-a-minute neo-noir.
“Literally and metaphorically, COLLATERAL peers deeply and persuasively into darkness…. As a result of Mann's craftsmanship and concern, COLLATERAL crackles with energy and purpose, a propulsive film with character on its mind and confident men and women on both sides of the camera.” —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times (Aug 6, 2004) “Most of the time we are with Cruise and Foxx, and their interplay is never less than galvanizing.” —Peter Rainer, New York Magazine (Jul 29, 2004) “On this movie, as well as all of his subsequent features…Mann would use increasingly sophisticated video cameras but would never seem to be trying to pretend he was shooting on film. He let the video be video. That was a different way of approaching Hollywood features. It was a statement — something like, ‘Yes, this format can’t do things that 35mm film can do, but it can do a lot of other things that film can’t and has its own identity.’” —Matt Zoller Seitz, rogerebert.com
