Collateral [Blu-ray]

Collateral [Blu-ray] Review

The special features like the making of collateral are really excellent. I enjoy most Michael Mann movies and seeing how he makes them and how the actors get into their characters is terrific. I also think having Tom Cruise (not one of my favorite actors) play the hit man is great casting. Both the lead actors are very good in this but Tom Cruise is just a bit more polished and believable an actor in his role than Jamie Foxx. This is a violent movie but also creates a mood that gives it power. Highly recommended if you like action flicks that stick close to realism.

Collateral [Blu-ray] Overview

A contract killer takes a cab driver hostage and orders him to drive him around so he can carry out his murders.

Collateral [Blu-ray] Specifications

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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