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Collateral - Single Disc Edition [2004]
from Paramount Home Entertainment
starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg
directed by Michael Mann

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Dubbed
• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

Collateral offers a change of pace for Tom Cruise as a ruthless contract killer, but that's just one of many reasons to recommend this well-crafted thriller. It's from Michael Mann, after all, and the director's stellar track record with crime thrillers (Thief, Manhunter, and especially Heat) guarantees a rich combination of intelligent plotting, well-drawn characters, and escalating tension, beginning here when icy hit-man Vincent (Cruise) recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through a nocturnal tour of Los Angeles, during which he will execute five people in a 10-hour spree. While Stuart Beattie's screenplay deftly combines intimate character study with raw bursts of action (in keeping with Mann's directorial trademark), Foxx does the best work of his career to date (between his excellent performance in Ali and his title-role showcase in Ray), and Cruise is fiercely convincing as an ultra-disciplined sociopath. Jada Pinkett-Smith rises above the limitations of a supporting role, and Mann directs with the confidence of a master, turning L.A. into a third major character (much as it was in the Mann-produced TV series Robbery Homicide Division). Collateral is a bit slow at first, but as it develops subtle themes of elusive dreams and lives on the edge, it shifts into overdrive and races, with breathtaking precision, toward a nail-biting climax. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• The psychological twist keeps it noir
  This film is not particularly rich as for the content. A professional killer has been hired to eliminate all the witnesses and even the cops and other prosecution personnel in some criminal case. Banal. He does not want to drive his own car and he does not want to hire a car and an accomplice to drive him around. So he comes at night and just hires a taxi and its driver. That makes him difficult to trace. But that creates some problems because the taxi-driver is not really willing to do the job. And then... more info

• Not quite as amazing as I was expecting but still a very good film.
  Thriller about a taxi driver picking up a hit man and being forced to drive him around Los Angeles as he carries out several hits during one long night. Tom Cruise is excellent as the hit man and Jamie Foxx also puts in a fine performance as the hapless taxi driver whom Tom Cruise 'hires' for the night. Watch out for the scene in the night club where Tom Cruise's hit man shows just how lethal he is, as well as the tense finale on a subway train. A well put together film which although not quite reaching the... more info

• very good
  very good film with a great performance from tom cruise.as always with michael mann the film is visually impressive its got a great soundtrack and the action is well staged

• Well acted, but yawn inducing and wildly improbable
  I really can't see why all the reviews seem so positive.
  The plot was, when you strip it down, pretty basic, and pretty improbable. It was fleshed out with some fairly vain and transparent bulking up, in the form of the background story about the honest taxi driver drawn unwittingly into the killer's night's work, and the killer's cod philosophy.
  But that actually just made the whole thing worse, by making what would have been a fairly average action film into a very drawn out, boring and... more info

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