Collateral

Pros: Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Interesting plot.
Cons: Became predictable later in the movie. Few slow moments.

I have seen several movies with Tom Cruise in them over the years. I have enjoyed most of those movies that I’ve seen. I’m not really a huge fan of his. I don’t automatically want to see a movie just because he will be in it. There are some of his ...

Pros: Cruise, Foxx, Mann, Pinkett-Smith, Majority of the story
Cons: too predictable in parts

The best thrillers have to be character driven, and in order for the audience to become part of them, they must also be believable. We must fall into the illusion that the story unfolding in front of us could actually take place, and that given the ...

Pros: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, supporting cast, direction, photography, music
Cons: Great atmosphere flags a bit due to the predictable ending

"I off one fat Angeleno and you throw a hissy fit." Vincent Collateral (2004) A magnificent slice of life drama from director Michael Mann (Heat, ...

Pros: Stylish thriller, but nothing to really connect it with the viewer's world.
Cons: Blood and bullets, but by the end you're so numb that you don't care.

A favorite author of mine, Robert Heinlein, once wrote that the best way to control someone was to invoke his self-interest. In this stylish thriller by Michael Mann, this idea is taken several steps farther than anyone wants to go. It's an average ...

Pros: great directing, excellent acting by Foxx, interesting themes
Cons: poor casting with Cruise, overly simple halting plot

Michael Mann’s Collateral seems more artistic and reflective than action-packed for a film for a movie that features a hitman trying to check off his hit list. Unusually enough, Collateral barely has any action although it would seem to be the premise ...

Pros: Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise make the movie; Night time scenes add to the mood
Cons: Ending could have been better.

A contract killer needs some help committing his crimes. He needs someone to escort him around the city as he blasts his human targets to a thousand pieces. What is a man to do? Should he find his own transportation around town? No, that would be too ...

Pros: A nice change of pace from ordinary action flicks.
Cons: The ending was somewhat predictable.

I’m not necessarily the biggest fan of Tom Cruise. Or Jamie Foxx. Or Jada Pinkett Smith. But Collateral, from director Michael Mann may be one of the most entertaining movies of the summer. The Story Max (Jamie Foxx) is an ...

Pros: Fun to watch, cool music at times, Foxx's performance, nice script
Cons: Cruise's character is a bit complicated and some of the shots without speech run long

If you removed about 10 minutes of "filler" from Collateral, you might have just had one of my 10 best movies of 2004. But alas, Collateral is still a neat little movie with a plot so simple, you could describe it in four words -- taxi ...

Pros: Cruise as a villain, Jamie Foxx can act - who knew?
Cons: Too slow, the plot is too far-fetched

When Michael Mann directs a movie, I’m there. The Last of the Mohicans is one of my all-time favorite movies and Heat is a modern masterpiece. When I first saw the trailer for Collateral, it didn’t seem like the kind of movie Tom Cruise would star in. ...

Pros: Cruise and Foxx in that order
Cons: Depends too much on unknown back stories to be truly appreciated

If you are looking for an evening of light entertainment, this movie is probably best left unattended on the shelf of your local video emporium. If you are looking for a film that is a little off center leaving you with some disquiet, then I suspect you ...

Pros: Collateral has memorable action sequences on DVD
Cons: Poor plot line, rushed ending

Just like the video game Grand Theft Auto, Collateral has no super humans or mechanical mega-galactic bots.  Instead we get a blurring of reality where it is seemingly possible that someone could go around on a contract killing spree.  The ...

Pros: Jamie Fax, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Tom Cruise.
Cons: Ending

Its not often that we are treated to a great character-based action movie, one in which the action is a mere appendage to the story; where the plot is build around the nuances of human interaction rather then exploding cars and whizzing bullets. ...

Pros: Mood, cinematography, score, mise-en-scene, powerful Foxx, effectively understated Cruise.
Cons: Inconsistent narrative flow eventually requires suspending belief. Pat denouement unnecessarily abandons effective realism.

Michael Mann's much-ballyhooed thriller-noir Collateral is neither as good as it aspires to be, nor as bad as some like to paint it. Fact is, it's a Michael Mann movie, with all the good and bad that that entails. In the end, it's an ...

Pros: the performances of Foxx and Cruise, great character development
Cons: the ending is as bad as The Village was as a full film

I've wanted to see Collateral since first reading about it 3 months ago. I've never been a big fan of Tom Cruise, and I'm probably the only 24 year old male on the planet who has never watched Top Gun. For me, the Mission ...

Pros: My God, this is a great thriller!
Cons: Ending feels a bit cut short

For those out there who haven't been told the story of this film by word of mouth or movie trailers, it is simply the story of Max (Jamie Foxx), a Cab Driver in L.A. who is hijacked at gunpoint by his fayre Vincent (Tom ...