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Studio: DreamWorks SKG
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Aug 6, 2004
Running Time: 120 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long since forgotten--until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that 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. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral--an expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.
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PETER TRAVERS -
August 5, 2004
No crime film in years boasts a cooler vibe than Michael Mann's dazzling Collateral, a head-spinning ride with the devil through a Los Angeles night that gleams with danger. Mann hits a new peak, orchestrating action, atmosphere and bruising humor with a poet's eye for urban darkness. Reporting for duty as a stone-cold contract killer is Tom Cruise, who gives a dynamite performance by undercutting his heroic star image even more than he did in Interview With the Vampire and Magnolia. As…
PETER TRAVERS -
December 15, 2004
Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, Ali ) recently won the Best Director prize from the National Board of Review for this tale of a Los Angeles cabby (a superb Jamie Foxx) who gets hijacked by a hitman (Tom Cruise, breaking type to dazzling effect) who must off five targets between dusk and dawn. Condensed into one harrowing evening, the movie is lifted out of genre familiarity through Mann's startling innovations. The director, eager for us to see into the depths of this inky night in which…
As the mastermind behind another L.A.-driven gem Heat, Michael Mann has once again stamped his own unique vision of the city and its denizens into our brains with Collateral. ''The whole story takes place between 6 p.m. and about 4 a.m. in this PacRim-diverse and most contemporary of American cities, where coyotes roam the streets as if the layer of civilization is new and temporary,'' Mann explains. ''That's the world I wanted Max and Vincent moving through as the story unfolds…This is the… |
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