Collateral (Two-Disc Special Edition) |  | Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.7 x 0.6
MPN: D91734D
ISBN: 1417010789
UPC: 678149173420
EAN: 9781417010783
ASIN: B00005JN2Z
Theatrical Release Date: August 6, 2004
Release Date: December 14, 2004
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Product Description
VINCENT IS A COOL, CALCULATING CONTRACT KILLER AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME. MAX IS A CABBIE WITH BIG DREAMS LOOKING FOR HIS NEXT FARE. THIS FATEFUL NIGHT, MAX WILL TRANSPORT VINCENT ON HIS NEXT MISSION - ONE NIGHT, 5 STOPS, 5 HITS & A PERFECT GETAWAY. TOGETHER, THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN A NON-STOP RACE AGAINST TIME.
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Collateral offers a change of pace for Tom Cruise as a ruthless contract killer, but that's just one of many reasons to recommend this well-crafted thriller. It's from Michael Mann, after all, and the director's stellar track record with crime thrillers (Thief, Manhunter, and especially Heat) guarantees a rich combination of intelligent plotting, well-drawn characters, and escalating tension, beginning here when icy hit-man Vincent (Cruise) recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through a nocturnal tour of Los Angeles, during which he will execute five people in a 10-hour spree. While Stuart Beattie's screenplay deftly combines intimate character study with raw bursts of action (in keeping with Mann's directorial trademark), Foxx does the best work of his career to date (between his excellent performance in Ali and his title-role showcase in Ray), and Cruise is fiercely convincing as an ultra-disciplined sociopath. Jada Pinkett-Smith rises above the limitations of a supporting role, and Mann directs with the confidence of a master, turning L.A. into a third major character (much as it was in the Mann-produced TV series Robbery Homicide Division). Collateral is a bit slow at first, but as it develops subtle themes of elusive dreams and lives on the edge, it shifts into overdrive and races, with breathtaking precision, toward a nail-biting climax. --Jeff Shannon
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A Better Thriller than Most February 8, 2010
Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY)
What separates Michael Mann's "Collateral" from most other crime thrillers is that you actually have characters that you enjoy and, more importantly, understand. To see Tom Cruise as an ice-in-his-blood hitman, which is way more than casting against type, is something to behold. And Jamie Foxx as an unwilling accomplice is superb. And Los Angeles, as an unwilling third character, is hypnotic. (The scene where three coyotes cross a main L.A. drag is almost artsy, but extremely effective, as it conveys some deep meaning to the distinction [or lack thereof] between civilization and wilderness.)
I agree with most reviewers that some of coincidences are farfetched, and that the ending is a little too much like other thrillers, especially "Speed". Still, the movie held my attention thanks to the peppery dialogue between Cruise and Foxx. What disappointed me, besides the logistical leaps in the plot, were the "gimmes". Michael Mann's commentary was surprisingly unintersting and the "special" features weren't so special. However, this is movie is a high-water mark in thrillers and an exceptional character study worth owning.
 Collateral. February 2, 2010
Jose Lopez (Miami,Florida USA)
Surprisingly Good Movie,Tom Cruise is impeccable in the movie, Jamie Foxx even better. it's a good high paced thriller movie. the circumstances of the two characters and how everything intertwines is good.
 Sorry - disappointing January 21, 2010
Laura L. Wetter (Tampa, FL)
Found myself wanting to turn it off before the ending. And saying to myself, boring. If a movie is based in reality,
I find it very hard to concentrate on the movie when presented with a string of non-sensical events. Basically, it
had it's moments, but mostly felt like a waste of my time. Just watched it for the first time last night.
Collateral January 2, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is an expertly-made thriller. Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long since forgotten--until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witnesses, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral--an expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's a perfect hit.
A Class Act December 16, 2009
~LEON~ (UK)
This movie has real class, the photography, shot with the viper hi-def camera, is amazing and adds a depth of escapism that I have only found elsewhere in Michael Mann's Miami Vice, shot with the same camera. The colours and the vibrancy of the Los Angeles dusk just made me feel "there" in a way I can't put my finger on, and combined with the score to create a world I enjoyed losing myself in.
Tom Cruise is looking sharp in an all grey suit, tie and hair combo and brings an air of intensity and offbeat Tyler Durden style to his role, espousing the same "live life in the moment and destroy all those pedestrian parts of yourself that hold you back" philosophies in between murdering his targets in emphatic fashion. The guy looks good, and carries the main drive of the movie, along with the photography and the music.
Jamie Foxx does a great job of the supporting actor role, and the storyline is a tightly scripted realisation of a good concept: a foreign assassin turns up in LA to carry out five hits between sun-down and sun-up before leaving again never to be seen or heard from, strong-arming a hapless cab driver into being his personal chauffeur for the duration of the operation, or so the plan goes.
Watch out for the completely unscripted and impromptu appearance of a wild dog strolling out in front of the car at a light (the camera just happened to be rolling), it's a special movie moment, and really captures the essence of "being there", witnessing life as it unfolds, and all that jazz.
Brilliant film. Delivers on all the levels it attempts to, and possibly more.
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