Collateral

Name: Collateral
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 4

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles. More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Michael Mann

Producer:

Julie Richardson

Writer:

Stuart Beattie

Release Date:

Aug 6, 2004

Runtime:

2hr

Synopsis

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

Cast

Tom Cruise
Jamie Foxx
Jada Pinkett Smith
Mark Ruffalo
Peter Berg
Bruce McGill
Irma P. Hall
Barry Shabaka Henley
Richard T. Jones
Klea Scott

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.9

RATINGS 3.8K FANS

3.9

Jan 9, 2021

yo homie, is that my briefcase?

9.1K Likes

nickusen

Jul 5, 2022

lighthearted buddy roadtrip movie

6.6K Likes

Karsten

Jan 1, 2019

Two lonely specks in the cosmos pass each other by and irreversibly change courses. Not sure why this hit me harder than it has on previous watches but I love the immediacy and working-class detail Mann manages to fit into the minute logistics of his thrills, the wounded…

5.1K Likes

Josh Lewis
Jan 26, 2020

if I had to answer a jazz riddle to save my life, I would die

4.6K Likes

fran hoepfner

Jan 12, 2016

tom cruise nearly gets into a different taxi at the start lol

3.5K Likes

Josiah Morgan

Aug 31, 2020

'Heat' begins with De Niro arriving in LA via the subway, 'Collateral' ends with Tom Cruise dying on the same subway as it leaves town. Both of their characters dress identically. What can this mean? What do trains represent in the Michael Mann canon? A terminus that marks…

3.4K Likes

Will Menaker
May 6, 2015

You know what really sticking out about these Mann films I've been watching. His boundless empathy. This film is a brutal refutation to the "cool hitman" genre, where "moral codes" make it seem acceptable for the protagonists to kill. Cruise's Vincent uses nihilism to…

3.2K Likes

esther

Sep 8, 2020

Tom Cruise really came out of the womb running at full speed

2.4K Likes

Sara Clements

Jan 14, 2014

Mann's MY DINNER WITH ANDRE.

2.2K Likes

matt lynch

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4.0

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Metacritic

metacritic

Based on 41 Critics

8.5

USER SCORE (525)

Universal acclaim based on 525 Reviews

The movie never really gets below that surface. It sticks to the mean streets of Los Angeles without much introspection or analysis. But those surfaces are slick and beguiling.

Kirk Honeycutt

The Hollywood Reporter

Mann vividly captures the nocturnal pulse of East L.A. in this taut, confined game of cat and mouse. In the homestretch the thrills get too generic and farfetched for their own good. But the first two thirds are a knockout.

David Ansen

Newsweek

Shot by shot, scene by scene, Mann, whose recent work includes #147;Heat#148; and The Insider, may be the best director in Hollywood. Methodical and precise, he analyzes a scene into minute components.

David Denby

The New Yorker

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