COLLATERAL and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE remake review:

Two movies that both show two masters of American cinema (Mann and Demme) with both their mad visions at full force, both of them, now found running and growing in the murky, heated, metropolitan proverbial hearts of America—they’re each crazed with both the feverish, phantom-like dizziness of the American city (Collateral’s complex topographical symphony that is LA) and America as a whole (Manchurian’s nightmarish, opaque-and-obvious multi-doored fantasia that is the US), filled with all the breathtaking force, fantasy, sides and thinning glass houses of identity, politics, the hallucinogenic throws and spirals of all spectrums of power, and all the paranoia and more found in the underbelly of crime and the government.