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Collateral

  • 20042004
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  • 2h
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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.
IMDb RATING
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410K
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POPULARITY
1,225
191
    • Michael Mann
    • Stuart Beattie
  • Stars
    • Tom Cruise
    • Jamie Foxx
    • Jada Pinkett Smith
    • Michael Mann
    • Stuart Beattie
  • Stars
    • Tom Cruise
    • Jamie Foxx
    • Jada Pinkett Smith
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    • 1KUser reviews
    • 233Critic reviews
    • 71Metascore
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    • Nominated for 2 Oscars

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    Tom Cruise
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    • Vincent
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    • Max
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    Peter Berg
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    Jamie McBride
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    • (as Ken Ver Cammen)
    Charlie E. Schmidt
    • FBI Agent
    • (as Charlie E. Schmidt Jr.)
    Michael Bentt
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    • (as Michael A. Bentt)
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      • Stuart Beattie
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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 At the Movies: 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

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    8/10
    "Will my existence be noted by anybody?"
    This is a collision of two lives… All collapsed in the events of one night…

    The movie starts with Vincent (Tom Cruise) arriving to L.A., a guy who just looks perfect…

    Some people happen to people on purpose, in order to tell them something about their lives…And they sit somewhere and share two or three lines, and they leave, and you know, your life is changed…

    When Max (Jamie Foxx) first meets Vincent, it was "who cares? He was a dreamer when he said: "I just saw the woman of my dreams…I'm getting married in my mind right now." Vincent says, "I want you to disconnect so that when you guy do connect, it's like day and night." And continues… "I got five stops to make. Collect signatures, see some friends, and then I got a 6 a.m. out of LAX. Why don't you hang with me?"

    It's not until the offering of the money that you see really connect…

    "Collateral" projects in a much deeper way into Cruise/Vincent character… He can become very quiet, and we can look at the screen, and we will feel that Cruise is totally in command…He's a quick draw…Vincent is fast…As an assassin, he must be economical in his moves…

    The film focused some of the wildness, and what lurks below the surface of L.A. Just the opening shot, when we look at that cab driving out and we see the big paintings on the walls, it was just visual sophistication…

    The movie is not an action story… It's a compelling drama with realistic action that works for the story… And it is done for an emotional reason… Cruise gives a dynamic performance as the cold-blooded killer… Foxx is terrific as the honest hearted guy driving a cab for twelve years, and both come together suddenly like a spike in a railroad right here in this point where things were going to change in one night…Jamie Foxx finds himself in the presence of a real adversary in the form of this bumbling cab driver, who has never fired a handgun in his life
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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)
      • United States
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    • Filming locations
      • El Rodeo Restaurant, 8825 E Washington Blvd, Pico Rivera, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Dreamworks Pictures
      • Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation
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