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Mohawk [ 6.5 ]
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Visually and sonically LA feels sureal in this movie. It definately ehances the enjoyment of this movie. However I got disappointed as a movie that started off well faded into the medicority that is Hollywood. What could of been a clever action thriller became a standard action movie. The end was an anti-climax. The cast hold off the roles reasonably well - but apart from the atmosphere that is created in the shooting of this movie - plot wise this is really standard fare.
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Corto [ 8.0 ]
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Michael Mann takes a step towards his Miami Vice roots. And he does it well. A mainstream Hollywood thriller simply cannot get any better than this. The audiovisual strength is breathtaking.
My obvious favourite scene: the coyotes crossing the street.
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jeff_v [ 7.0 ]
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At its best when sticks to the genre and doesn't try to import significance through existential musings, Mann's film delivers solid action, meaty turns by supporting players (Ruffalo and Bardem), and a cool, gritty look, courtesy of some nighttime DV shooting. Tom Cruise is a wash as the bad guy --would've preferred someone who brought something to the table, even though the script duly notes that he's a character with no "there there."
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Dancing_P [ 7.0 ]
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Sometimes I just don't get Hollywood producers. You know, they've obviously read the script (or at the very least, a freakin' synopsis) for what they're producing... so why go with Tom Cruise? You've got a perfectly written badass to cast; why go and cast Tom Cruise, who is definitely NOT badass? I know that you need bankable stars but, come on, there's a bunch of big-name actors way better at being a bad guy than Tom Cruise. Admittedly, Cruise fares fairly well with the role... but he could've been so much better. He plays Vincent, a hitman who hitches a ride with a cab driver named Max (Jamie Foxx). Vincent offers Max 600 dollars to drive him around for the night... but when a dead guy crashes through Max's windshield, he finds out that Vincent might not be paying a visit to his friends after all. The real star here is Michael Mann's Los Angeles; shot using MiniDV, his LA is all neons and shadows, a city that never sleeps. Mann, if anything, cannot be faulted for his visual flair; Collateral looks better than practically any action movie I've ever seen. The first hour and a half or so of the film is crackerjack action; Mann at his most basic and primal (I am one of the three people on Earth who felt Heat was overrated, although it remains a very good movie). The movie's conclusion, however, is a bit underwhelming, turning Vincent into a tailor-suited Jason Voorhees. Foxx is very good in a role once intended for both Adam Sandler (!) and Robert DeNiro (!!); it's hard to fathom, with this and Ray, that Foxx was once the low-rent version of Will Smith, doing crap like Booty Call. Jada Pinkett, Mark Ruffalo, Bruce McGill, Javier Bardem and Irma P. Hall support. Jason Statham has one line, for some reason.
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chapter11 [ 8.5 ]
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Marvelous. "Collateral" is kinda-deep and kinda-insightful, yeah, but beyond that it's simply a wet dream for people who crave well-shot, perfectly-staged action/thrillers, and "Collateral" delivers there. It's not that we particularly _needed_ another shoot-out in a club, for example, or a train chase a la "Blow Out" and "The Fugitive" and every action movie ever, but when "Collateral" is so suspenseful, and so blackly funny, and so freakin' exciting-- well, who cares? The bit that really snagged me, of course, was the helpless "Rear Window"-esque scene where Jamie Foxx watches from a distance through the windows of an office building-- where his love interest and a ruthless hitman are playing cat-and-mouse just a floor away from each other. Though I still think enough could have been trimmed off to make it a bit more compact, "Collateral" is still too cool for words.
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kcremer [ 8.0 ]
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I heard "Collateral" was really good, and it is. Jamie Foxx gives a well-deserved Oscar-nominated performance as the cab driver, and Tom Cruise's comical grey hairdo did not hinder his natural ability to play a cold, apathetic hit man. And this is the hottest Jada Pinkett has looked since she married Will Smith.
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| Weighted Rating | : 7.0 |
| No. Ratings | : 19 | |
| No. Reviews | : 10 | |
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