Collide (2016)

An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne high-speed Autobahn.

Director:

Eran Creevy

Writers:

F. Scott Frazier (screenplay by), Eran Creevy (screenplay by)

Stars:

Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Nicholas Hoult	...	Casey Stein
Felicity Jones	...	Juliette Marne
Anthony Hopkins	...	Hagen Kahl
Ben Kingsley	...	Geran
Marwan Kenzari	...	Matthias
Aleksandar Jovanovic	...	Jonas (as Alexandar Jovanovic)
Christian Rubeck	...	Kay
Erdal Yildiz	...	Rainer
Clemens Schick	...	Mirko
Johnny Palmiero	...	Fitch
Ben Hecker	...	Filling Station Clerk
Joachim Król	...	Wolfgang
Markus Andreas Klauk	...	Talaz (as Markus Klauk)
Michael Epp	...	Family Car Owner
Christina Hecke	...	Doctor

Storyline

To pay for his girlfriend's (Jones) medical emergency while abroad, Casey (Hoult) schemes to pull a drug heist for an eccentric gangster (Kingsley). After a failed attempt, he embarks across Europe on an action-packed chase in a race against time to save his girlfriend's life from being taken by an evil druglord (Hopkins).

---

Plot Keywords:

reference to jamie lee curtis | car crushed | dialysis | reference to william shakespeare | drugs | 

---

Taglines:

How far would you go for the one you love?

---

Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence, frenetic action, some sexuality, language, and drug material

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

UK Germany China USA

Language:

English German

Release Date:

24 February 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

Autobahn

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$21,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,512,824, 24 February 2017, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$2,280,004, 9 March 2017

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$2,531,521, 8 December 2016

Company Credits

Production Co:

42,Automatik,DMG Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Originally titled "Autobahn".

---

Goofs

There is an English "Quick and Cool" sign on the wall inside the petrol station. The petrol station is supposed to be in Germany.

---

Quotes

[first lines]
Casey Stein: [narrating] Reasons. We all got our reasons to do crazy and reckless things in life. Mostly they don't help you though. Not when you're left to pick up the pieces. But if the reason's love, maybe it's not so crazy, 'cause people believe in love. They know it keeps the world turning. And right now, that's the only thing keeping me alive.
[hanging upside down in flipped car]

---

Connections

Referenced in Midnight Screenings: Valley of Bones (2017)

---

Soundtracks

Collide
Written by Ilan Eshkeri
Published by Iconic Music Worldwide / Atlantic Screen Music
Performed by Rebel
Licensed courtesy of Casablanca / Republic Records Inc

User Reviews

Some fluid action sequences don't just COLLIDE with fluent storytelling.

Collide is very much alike Creevy's previous work, Welcome To The Punch (2013) with additional love story between Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones as plot driven.

Casey needs money to cure his sick girlfriend, Juliette. A slick drug dealer, Geran send him on a mission, hijack a truck that belongs to notorious criminal, Hagen Kahl who can do anything to get rid of anyone in his way.

Here we have two antagonists as the opposites, perfectly crafted by Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley, who are responsible to put Hoult into a series of captivating cat and mouse action caper. At some points, i personally start to think that Hoult is the 'real cat' here who got 9 lives to live.

Relationships between these one dimensional characters felt under developed. Still cast members had shown what they've got to keep our interest going.

The stages are set extremely well to pull us straight away from start with only little time to think but somehow we already have sights on the finish line. A twist might be explained through exposition about 10 minutes before end credits.

Well, some fluid action sequences don't just COLLIDE with fluent storytelling. And it takes 99 minutes of running time to find out why.