Collateral

2004 Directed by Michael Mann

It started like any other night.

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

Tom Cruise Jamie Foxx Jada Pinkett Smith Mark Ruffalo Peter Berg Bruce McGill Irma P. Hall Barry Shabaka Henley Richard T. Jones Klea Scott Bodhi Elfman Debi Mazar Javier Bardem Emilio Rivera Jamie McBride Ken Waters Charlie E. Schmidt Michael Bentt Ian Hannin Robert Deamer David Mersault Anthony Ochoa Omar Orozco Edgar Sánchez Cosme Urquiola Thomas Rosales Jr. Wade Williams Paul Adelstein Jessica Ferrarone Show All…

Alternative Titles

Colateral: Lugar y tiempo equivocado, Sŭuchastnikŭt, I Diadromí, 콜래트럴, Колатерал, Соучастник, Співучасник

drama crime thriller

120 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by stavvybaby69 ★★★★½ 10

An assassin teaches a guy how to get pussy by accident. It’s basically a Disney movie for guys who lost custody of their children. Shit rocked
Review by Evan ★★★★½ 11

It's truly incredible how many GREAT movies Tom Cruise has been in. Whether it's a drama like Eyes Wide Shut, or an action movie like Top Gun, and let's not forget a comedic role like Tropic Thunder; he is always in top form. There'e no denying that Tommy C is one of the best actors of all-time. I might not be the biggest fan of the real life Cruise, but as an actor I absolutely love the guy. Collateral is just another great Tommy C movie to add to the ongoing list.
Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 3

Mann's MY DINNER WITH ANDRE.
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 27

"I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies. Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices. "
Can I just be honest? I don't really know a lot about film. I may talk big about the depths of thematic development or the meaning of cinematic style, but like the rest of us I'm just making it up as I go. But if there's one thing I know for sure about movies it's that I prefer film to digital. I think digital filmmaking is good for little more than lowering costs. I love film stock. Sure, some of that comes…
Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 7

two lonely specks in the cosmos pass each other by and irreversibly change courses. dunno why the sensitivity and existentialism of this hit me harder than it has on previous watches but chris cornell howling into the fuzzy orange sky almost had me in tears! right when it hit midnight i was watching the club shootout, just sublime. happy new year y’all
Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★½ 1

if I had to answer a jazz riddle to save my life, I would die
Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 8

[urban lights bleeding into the sky, audioslave playing in the distance]
did u get it
it's cause he's a lone wolf
Review by Will Menaker ★★★½ 7

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

'Heat' begins with De Niro arriving in LA via the subway, 'Collateral' ends with Tom Cruise dying on the same subway as it leaves town. Both of their characters dress identically. What can this mean? What do trains represent in the Michael Mann canon? A terminus that marks the borders of reality in the dreamy LA nightscape? A refutation of the illusion of freedom and possibility that cars provide on the urban canvas? There is only one beginning and one ending for all of us and everything that happens in between is simply men doing their jobs.
I wish Tom Cruise played bad guys more often.
Review by harlequinade 🎃🍂 ★★★★½ 30

Life's short. One day it's gone.
I want Vincent to mentor me and Michael Mann to make me a mixtape.
Whenever Tom "I would already be dead for your entertainment because of the insane stunts that I do but Xenu watches over my insane ass" Cruise steps outside the action genre, the effects are spectacular. It resulted in some of the all time great performances - his take on Lestat being a standout in horror and his Les Grossman being an iconic work in comedy. Collateral is another great example of that - with Cruise delivering yet another fantastic villain, this time in a thriller. His Vincent is such a fascinating character - ruthless and cynical but not without charm.…
Review by katie ★★★★★ 42

my first mann, and fuck was it good. which one should I watch next??
Review by thomas1995 ★★★★ 11

YOU KILLED HIM. NO I SHOT HIM, THE BULLETS AND THE FALL KILLED HIM...
👇👇👇
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PROS:
~Jamie Foxx is Max, a cab driver that dreams creating a limo company and escaping to tropical islands. However, he postpones constantly these plans because of his insecurities and as a result he is stuck to the unmaginative life of the daily routine spending most of his time inside a cab. In other words, he is defined by his failures and not his dreams.
~Tom Cruise is the villain this time and this change is welcome and refreshing. He is Vincent, a contract killer that deals everything with professionalism. He demonstrates apathy when he kills his targets showing that there is a distinction…
Review by Adam Friedland 5

Mark ruffalo shines as cholo cop

Recent reviews

Review by NotTheDoct0r ★★★★★

here i am again watching wonderful movies that weren’t on my watchlist here.
Review by chesmez ★★★

Conceptually a tough one to pull off, but Michael Mann does it.
Review by Andrea Carati ★★★★

Adrenalinico come pochi
Review by BarmySilverFox ★★

Good enough. Jamie Foxx was great in this.
Review by talenti ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

theres one thing I've started to notice in some of these big budget crime movies and its been pissing me off. Whenever there's a big, chaotic shoot-out in a public place, like the nightclub scene, they drag out the civilian chaos for a stupid amount of time. If there's a shooting in a nightclub, everybody's gonna be OUT in a minute and a half/ two minutes tops. I just don't understand how like 8 people can be shooting at each other for 10 minutes and you still manage to get in the line of fire and not fucking escape the club. You really deserve to get shot in that case. Fuck Tom Cruise. Otherwise great movie.
Review by BigBadScoob ★★★★½

A guy leaves a letterboxd review and logs out, think anyone will notice?
Review by Linus Tolliday ★★★★½

Did Damien Chazelle see Tom Cruise teaching Jamie Foxx about jazz and go, “whoaaa brainwave”?
So cleeeeaan. Michael Mann always paints in thick strokes, gives you broad signifiers — sunglasses at night, a shitty boss threatening to take it out of your pay, a photo of Maldives tucked in your visor. But these abstractions somehow never alienate the narrative. Somehow even make it feel more focused. And so unafraid of being ridiculous!
Highlight was scene in the club or maybe Tom Cruise’s silver hair?
Review by Bayley White ★★★★½

Incruisable
Review by Juan Diego ★★★★

No conozco disparos más realistas que los que aparecen en las películas de don Michael Mann.
Review by RileyBogren ★★★★½

BANGER.
Bardem manages to be absolutely perfect in one scene. Cruise is at his very best. Soundtrack kills. Close to peak digital Mann, only outdone by Miami Vice. This fucking rules.
Review by Guilherme Semionato ★★★½

A melhor coisa deste filme é a conversa entre Jamie e a procuradora logo no comecinho, e a melhor coisa desta conversa é UMA MÚSICA que toca nela, uma coisa incrível que eu já ouvi umas 80 vezes nas últimas 48h: Hands of Time (Groove Armada & Richie Havens), um clássico tirado do fundo do baú criado, pasme, neste século.
Review by JariPekka ★★★★

Todella nautittavasti kerrottu trilleri.
Foxxin ja Cruisen välinen kemia ja jännite kantaa koko homman vaivattomasti.
Oikeastaan ensisekunteista lähtien homma otetaan haltuun kun Max myydään katsojalle sympaattisena underdogina, jolla on kuitenkin pelisilmää ja jonka oikeasti haluaisi nähdä onnistuvan.
Muutamia vähän pöljiä "leffamaisuuksia" käänteissä, mutta niitä voi katsoa läpi sormien, kun homma ei kuitenkaan lässähdä, vaan ottaa jopa ihailtavan loppukirin.
Tyylillisesti Mannin valoja heijastava, ylhäältä kuvattu, yöllisellä soundtrackillä höystetty viileä kaupunkikuva on kliseisyyden vaarankin uhalla nautittavaa. Kiinnostava fiilis kuvassa muutenkin, aivan kuin frame rate tai videon tyyppi olisi jotenkin tarkoituksellisen arkirealistinen.
Valot näyttävät hollywoodilta, mutta liike kotivideokameralta.
Muistilista satunnaisia mieleenjääneitä asioita:
-käyntikortti
-hiukan päälleliimattu Audioslave, mutta Cornell <3
-Cruisen täydellinen hip draw
-ruumishuone
-metrojahti
-salkun viskaaminen motarille