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- Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and produced by Michael Mann, written by Stuart Beattie, and starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.
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Roger Ebert. August 6, 2004. 5 min read. In "Collateral," a contract killer named Vincent (Tom Cruise) hires a cab driver for a journey into a physical and psychological netherworld. “Collateral” opens with Tom Cruise exchanging briefcases with a stranger in an airport.
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Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action thriller film [3] [4] directed and produced by Michael Mann, written by Stuart Beattie, and starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. The supporting cast includes Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Javier Bardem, and Bruce McGill.
Collateral: Directed by Michael Mann. With Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo. 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.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Michael Mann
- 2004-08-06
Nov 28, 2020 · By Sam Kench on November 28, 2020. Few filmmakers are able to imbue simple, grounded genre stories with as much dramatic heft and visual style as Michael Mann. One of the “neon-noir” innovator’s greatest cinematic achievements is his action-thriller Collateral (2004).
- Carey Mulligan's Di Kip Glaspie Saves The Day
- Snobbish Mi5 Man Sam Spence Is Outwitted
- John Simm's self-pitying Mp Found A Backbone
- Nicola Walker's Lesbian Vicar Chooses The Church
- Soldier and Shooter Sandrine Goes AWOL
- Kip Glaspie Botches Her Suicide Intervention
- Mona Asif Has Her Baby – with Fatima at Her Side
- "Pimlico Travel" Operator and People Smuggler Peter Westbourne Gets Away
It is Carey Mulligan who carries this series and makes Collateral such an enthralling watch. The Oscar-nominated actress is excellent as a determined detective with a wry smile and a plan, who keeps her cool and her counsel. In the final episode, she's in trouble with her boss: to get the information she needs about the people-smuggling operation a...
John Heffernan is so, so good at playing twits and bastards and pompous know-it-alls. In The Crown he is the Queen's critic Lord Altrincham; in Outlander he is sneering Redcoat Lord Thomas; in The Loch he is unpleasant doctor Simon Marr. In his hands, MI5's Sam Spence becomes the ultimate villain. Sam forges a relationship with Kip's dissatisfied s...
Even if you agree with his politics, shadow transport secretary David Mars (John Simm) has been consistently annoying since episode one. He is prone to lecturing his estranged wife Karen (Billie Piper) and yet never quite untangles himself from their disastrous relationship, letting her order him around and wind him up. He's also spent the whole se...
Ever since the Bishop turned up in her kitchen with an ultimatum, Jane Oliver (Nicola Walker) has been struggling to decide what to do. Should she stay with her Korean girlfriend Linh (Kae Alexander), who is illegally in the country and was caught high on drugs when she witnessed the murder? If so, she'll have to give up her position in the Church ...
Ever since she carried out the assassination on behalf of family friend (and secret people smuggler) Peter, Captain Sandrine Shaw has been unravelling. She is struggling with the vivid memory of her friend's death in combat, and with her uncertainty over whether she has killed the right pizza delivery boy, and in episode two she is blackmailed and ...
By this point, Kip Glaspie has pieced everything together after interrogating Berna Yalaz (Maya Sansa): the soldier who the police have been told is AWOL from the Royal Surrey Artillery is, in fact, the same one who committed the murder on the orders of a British people smuggler. And that soldier is Captain Sandrine Shaw. And where is Captain Shaw?...
We may have had two deaths, but the series ends with a birth. Mona Asif, who was raped in Iraq and forced to flee as a refugee, goes into labour at Harsfleet detention centre and is taken to hospital where she gives birth to a baby girl.
In the final episode the police work out that former military man Peter Westbourne (Richard McCabe) is a people smuggler, operating under the cover of "Pimlico Travel". But by the time the police raid his offices, he is gone. With his Turkish henchmen in custody and his identity exposed, the game is up for Peter. But for now at least, he has escape...
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Dec 10, 2020 · The story of a lone-wolf contract killer (Cruise) who strongarms a hapless and meticulous cab driver (Foxx) into ferrying him on his nightly rounds to wipe out five targets involved in a grand-jury...
Driven by director Michael Mann's trademark visuals and a lean, villainous performance from Tom Cruise, Collateral is a stylish and compelling noir thriller. Read Critics Reviews
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