Collide

Anthony Hopkins, just like Tommy Lee Jones in lot of their recent movies, simply is too old to play this heartless, stone-killer role. When an actor is too old, if some movie investors and casting agencies, still think they are box office insurance, they are deadly wrong. These old gizzards would turn off and turn away 99% audiences. Anthony Hopkins just looked so pretentiously and unconvincingly ridiculous, trying so hard to be a highly educated criminal, reciting Shakespeare, even Amadeus Mozart, on German soil.

Ben Kingsley too, also was a poorly miss-cast role in this film. The under-boss role he played in this film, was like an insult to the real criminals, I just don't know when he was so pathetically and fomulaically die-cast as a old sex beast/sex maniac, a pathetic character who would never climb up the criminal ladder to reach that level and position. It's sad to see this great actor now has to use his old naked body to make some dough, at the same time, a half clown and half jerk.

The young actor who played that mindless, die-hard romantic role in this film, somehow is a 50/50 right-wrong cast in this absurd car-chase, car-crash stupid film. His survival in this film was highly unlikely except he was conveniently provided with such lucks with the script, so all the time in the last minute, he would rise out of the wrecks.

Those car chases, car crashes on all kinds of roads in Germany, Hopkins' killers and himself could immediately appeared, even they could use this naive, dim-wit young guy's cell phone to pin-point his locations, the sudden show-ups were still not possible, unless these bad guys had the futuristic advanced technical devices from Star Trek's movies.

Again, lot of nice cars were wasted for those mindless "Grand Auto Theft" alike endless chasing and crashing scenes.

As the movie itself, well, okay to watch but, you've got to put your I.Q. aside first.

It's one of those films with aimless narration. Indeed, it has a nice cast and characters with the basic storyline, but that did not expand and explored well as it should have been. At least the pace of the narration looked fine. Some characters looked unnecessary, and so a couple of scenes. If these all were managed, then still it could have been a decent film. Because since it is an action- adventure, they did not generate those crucial parts like the stunts and dialogues related to the gangster thing to turn it a better film in its kind.

The two veteran actors coming together for the first time added more curiosity than flavour we are looking for. They did okay and so the rest of the cast. Ideal runtime, a few stuffs were in the favour of the film, but those were not enough for the overall success. If the same film was made from the non-English world like perhaps Germany, which was one of the producers of the film would have done better than this existing one which is very familiar with this language.

People would watch it only for Hopkins and Kingley and so did am I. But they might end in disappointment, or that could be the reason to rate it fairly better. Whatever, this is an okay film, which is barely entertaining and of all, not a boring film. So trying it for one is okay, but I think not worth if you have got plenty of options over this one.

6/10

I am no real movie reviewer, just a guy who loves watching good movies!

My first ever review for any IMDb movie. But I have been here looking up movies for years.

I seen some reviewers underrate this. Which is why I decided to let people know what an average everyday person thinks of this movie It deserves more credit than what it has been given.

I myself thoroughly enjoyed it! The time went by too fast. I could not keep my eyes off the screen lots of action, fantastic car chases. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.

I love Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins and to see both in one movie at the same time was very exciting and For Myself personally thought they did very well. Nicholas Hoult did a great job too.

I know this is no major movie like silence of the lambs. But it was still a fantastic action movie. If you like action movies don't let this one pass you by! It's very entertaining. I look forward to watching this again one day. 7.5/10

Not as bad as I was expecting. Brainless, with almost no plot whatsoever, but still made up for an enjoyable ride. Had some inventing camera work, but not really anything beyond generic. The action setpieces were by the book, as were the performances. Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins are so over the top that it hurts, but the outlandish nature of their roles still makes the film funnily watchable. A simple and straightforward rethread of genre tropes that still ends up being, if not worthwatching, a all and all decent film.

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.