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Collateral

2004

Michael Mann

Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo ...

6.8

65,330

Thriller. Action 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 kill the key witnesses, and the last stage is tonight. Tonight, Vincent arrived ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Mann hits a new peak, orchestrating action, atmosphere and bruising humor with a poet’s eye for urban darkness (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Mann makes thrillers the way that John Ford made westerns, using genre as a way into meaning rather than as an escape, 'Collateral' bears little relation to the usual Hollywood blowout."	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"Collateral is the best kind of genre filmmaking: It plays by the rules, obeys the traditions and is both familiar and fresh at once"	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"A stirring two-hour footnote to [Mann's] masterpiece Heat (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Michael Mann has elevated a gritty but straightforward story into a mesmerizing, sometimes thrilling ride"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Mann] deepens genre through the kind of specific detail that would grace a straight drama (...) Cruise and the filmmakers bring a great deal more to his character than we expect in a thriller (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Stuart Beattie's script never strays far from genre expectations, but the ensuing picaresque adventures are lively, and there's an undeniable grace and comfort in the way Mann puts the actors through their paces"	POS
United Kingdom	Rob Mackie The Guardian	"What makes it grip from the start is the excellence of Stuart Beattie's script (...) [The film] hardly puts a foot wrong (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Colin Kennedy Empire	"Perhaps the best premise for thrills since 'Speed' (...) [It] loses momentum once the wheels stop turning, but when the view is this good, Mann is one taxi driver who deserves a very big tip (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"[It falters] at its conclusion but [dispenses] enough atmosphere, characterization, and world-weary humanism along the way that audiences would be wise to enjoy the ride without worrying too much about the final destination."	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Radio Times	"[Cruise] is surprisingly effective as the killer, but it's Mann's astonishing style that really marks the film out (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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