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Collateral

  • 2004
  • R
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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Tom Cruise in Collateral (2004)
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A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

  • Director
    • Michael Mann
  • Writer
    • Stuart Beattie
  • Stars
    • Tom Cruise
    • Jamie Foxx
    • Jada Pinkett Smith
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    416K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,366
    4
    • Director
      • Michael Mann
    • Writer
      • Stuart Beattie
    • Stars
      • Tom Cruise
      • Jamie Foxx
      • Jada Pinkett Smith
    • 1KUser reviews
    • 235Critic reviews
    • 71Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 22 wins & 73 nominations total

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    Tom Cruise
    Tom Cruise
    • Vincent
    Jamie Foxx
    Jamie Foxx
    • Max
    Jada Pinkett Smith
    Jada Pinkett Smith
    • Annie
    Mark Ruffalo
    Mark Ruffalo
    • Fanning
    Peter Berg
    Peter Berg
    • Richard Weidner
    Bruce McGill
    Bruce McGill
    • Pedrosa
    Irma P. Hall
    Irma P. Hall
    • Ida
    Barry Shabaka Henley
    Barry Shabaka Henley
    • Daniel
    Richard T. Jones
    Richard T. Jones
    • Traffic Cop #1
    Klea Scott
    Klea Scott
    • Fed #1
    Bodhi Elfman
    Bodhi Elfman
    • Young Professional Man
    Debi Mazar
    Debi Mazar
    • Young Professional Woman
    Javier Bardem
    Javier Bardem
    • Felix
    Emilio Rivera
    Emilio Rivera
    • Paco
    Jamie McBride
    Jamie McBride
    • Traffic Cop #2
    Ken Waters
    Ken Waters
    • FBI Agent
    • (as Ken Ver Cammen)
    Charlie E. Schmidt
    • FBI Agent
    • (as Charlie E. Schmidt Jr.)
    Michael Bentt
    • Fever Bouncer
    • (as Michael A. Bentt)
    • Director
      • Michael Mann
    • Writer
      • Stuart Beattie
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      According to Michael Mann, Vincent is a man able to get in and out of anywhere without anyone recognizing or remembering him. To prepare for the movie, Tom Cruise had to make FedEx deliveries in a crowded Los Angeles market without anyone recognizing him.
    • Goofs
      When Max and Vincent load the first corpse in the trunk, the "corpse" is holding Max by the wrists as well.
    • Quotes

      Vincent: Look in the mirror. Paper towels, clean cab. Limo company some day. How much you got saved?

      Max: That ain't any of your business.

      Vincent: Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don't you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln town car. That girl,you can't even call that girl. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab?

    • Crazy credits
      There are no opening credits of any kind. The title does not appear until the closing credits.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Collateral/Code 46/Stander/Little Black Book/Festival Express (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Debestar
      Written by Rick Garcia, Rene Reyes & Cisco De Luna

      Performed by The Green Car Motel

      Courtesy of FastKat Records

    User reviews1K

    Review
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    9/10
    constantly re-watchable with entertaining storytelling, a good serious neo-noir
    Michael Mann's skills as storyteller, stylist, and controller of mood and psychology of characters is in one of its finest forms in Collateral, a summer blockbuster that's with equal measure of excitement and thought, dark humor and tough moments of violence and suspense. It's also one of only a handful of times in Tom Cruise's career where taking a chance dramatically with a complex character pays off. It's a 100 million dollar+ grossing movie, but its story could just as well be one set in the noirs of the 40s and 50s- a cabbie with some aspirations for his own business (and for a girl he picks up at the start of the film) gets taken over by a hit-man who's doing his rounds of murders all in one night. There's also cops on the trail, as well as FBI, but it's really more than anything about these two guys and the very stark, expected but still compelling climax. After the set-up gets underway, the film is as much character study as a typical crime thriller, and it's one of those splendid examples of style matching substance, where both contain some unconventional bits in what could have been a lesser film.

    Along with a good script by Stuart Beattie, and Mann's perfectly nuanced digital night-time photography (more suitable and exacting for the mood than the recent Miami Vice), there's the acting. First, of course, are the stars with Cruise in a turn-around role as the antagonist, who spouts out little bits of Darwin and I-Ching, but for the most part is a stone-cold sociopath. Cruise, wonderfully uncharacteristic for what he usually does in his star vehicles, is more low-key, ominous, and at the end quite dangerous. Jamie Foxx, too, in his real deserved Oscar-nominated turn, is also unconventional here as a common guy who's put between a rock and a hard place. Maybe his best scene, or at least the one I would show as him being a much better actor than he sometimes gets credit for, is when he has to meet Felix (Javier Bardem) to get a new 'list' of people for Vincent. That and a few other scenes are both tense and with an undercurrent of cynical, harsh humor that helps balance out the dark nature of the events.

    Collateral is also pretty re-watchable for a fan of this kind of picture, with a great score/soundtrack, great locations, and a couple of interesting ending images.
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    • Jul 28, 2006

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    • What's the song that Daniel is playing when Max & Vincent see him playing in the jazz club?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 6, 2004 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • -Official Facebook
      • -Trailer
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
      • French
      • Korean
    • Also known as
      • Untitled Michael Mann Project
    • Filming locations
      • El Rodeo Restaurant, 8825 E Washington Blvd, Pico Rivera, California, USA(Felix' hangout)
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Dreamworks Pictures
      • Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $65,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $101,005,703
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $24,701,458
      • Aug 8, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $220,239,925
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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