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Rating:  -
I don't want to hype this movie too much but rather try to put everything in perspective that people are complaining (or not) about.
First the movie: Collateral is a great film with plenty of action & suspense. What makes this movie is the fact that it takes place completely at night - not that this is so unusual but it's in an urban environment (LA) and Michael Mann (Director) managed to film this in a way that has not been done before. The way LA looks at night - there's just something about it and it's right here. Some reviews complain about things like "the cab drives around with a heavily dented roof and never gets caught" - but honestly, how many people would notice that on a cab at night? The viewer gets wrapped up in the story easily, and both Cruise & Foxx deliver great performances (and I'm not a fan of either one of them).
Bonus disc has some very nice features also.
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Tom Cruise got a lot of favorable press at the time of this film's release for playing an unredeemed and unredeemable killer. He is good, to be sure. You won't quickly forget his steely, relentless hitman. He's like demon from an icy hell. Still, while not exactly a one-note performance, he takes a back seat to Jamie Foxx (literally AND figuratively) in this taut thriller. Foxx, of course, has the advantage of portraying a Mensch, not a psychopath. You feel for him every moment he is in the clutches of Cruise's madman. And just when you think he might get out, he always gets sucked back in. It is as nightmarish a scenario as any horror film.
Even the predictable elements (like the fact that Jada Pinckett Smith's character will somehow wind up getting embroiled in the mayhem) are fraught with twists and turns. Her involvement ups the ante for Foxx's taxi driver hero Max. He has already proven himself more resourceful and resilient than viewers might have guessed at first. By the end of the film, Max proves himself more than the killer's equal, matching him manoeuvre for manoeuvre.
At the film's beginning, Max is revealed as a cab driver who knows Los Angeles like the proverbial back of his hand. He can tell you exactly how long it will take to get from one point to another in that sprawling city. Affable and modest about his talents, he nonetheless conveys quite early on that, in the contest of wills with this murderous outsider, he will prove to have home turf advantage.
And what a home turf it is. As many have stated, LA by night is as much a character in the film as the two principles. It's seamy glamour has seldom been better portrayed. Contemporary Los Angeles takes on an almost surreal, foreboding aura. It's like BLADE RUNNER, without the sci-fi elements. That creepy. And that good.
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The first 3/4 of the movie as stated by others is very very good, the final chapter is nothing we haven't seen before but look past that and from start to finish watch Cruise and his portrayal of his character.
Cruise's performance and depth is fantastic. The amount of study he has given his role is obvious, and by far the most intriguing character in the film is Cruise.
The movie itself is shot very well, recent action movies are so jerky and badly shot that either you get a headache, want to throw up, or it's so dark you can't tell who is who or what is happening.
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Tom Cruise (Vincent) has complete control of his handguns in this movie. He blows away all his "targets" with style and panache. Well, he should. He's an extremely well-trained assassin, on a "night on the town" picking his victims from his notebook computer; going from place to place with Jamie Foxx as his unsolicited cab driver(?), Max. Ahhh...Vincent shoots people and then, shoots more people. I really loved the way he put down the scumbag punks in the alley. HK USP, Glock, HK MP4, Beretta, Sig-Sauer, Uzi? Just some of the guns used in this mayhem-for-hire movie. Jada Pinkett-Smith is one of his "targets."
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This movie is about a man of action who meets a man of thinking and what happens when the two meet and interact with each other and thus learn from and change each other. It is my belief that the movie shows the psychological make-up of each person and how this produces collateral effects - in the structure and make-up of their own lives, as well as in each character's interactions with others.
The character played by Jamie Foxx is all thought and no action. This is impacting his life, the life of the people he comes into contact with on the streets of LA, and his relationship with his family (grandmother). He analyzes everything and never acts. He is paralyzed by his analysis (like the saying analysis paralysis). He doesn't take action.
The character played by Tom Cruise is all action and no thinking. He hasn't thought about the impact his job is having on other people. He doesn't care. He just executes his assigned missions. He doesn't even assign his own missions, or stated differently, he doesn't even direct his own life - he just takes orders. He is like a robot. He is like a machine and not a thinking human. He just acts. He hasn't really even thought about what he is doing with his life. He doesn't care. He doesn't think.
When the two meet, they collide. They change each other. This change in each other changes other people as well. The meeting and interaction of Tom Cruise's character with Jamie Foxx's character produces "collateral effects" and hence the title of the movie.
In the end, they each become both men of action and men of thought. For one character, he moves on with his life with his new psychological make-up (a mix of both thought and action), but for the other character, his new mix of thought and action and his new realization of his life is too late.
This movie is an excellent psychological thriller. The cinematography is unique and powerful. The direction and the writing - excellent as well.
I also love the soundtrack.
This is another brilliant and excellent work by Michael Mann.
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