Collateral

Nicholas Gregory

Works as an adrenaline rush, and a metaphor for a triumphant revolution against 1st-world nations apathetic complacency of hypocritical morals that spawn eventual murder of the marginalized contained in their society and abroad. Foxx's journey from zero to hero over the bourgeoisie predator of Cruise is equated to the overthrow of an unfair ruling class towards a union with Pinkett's open-minded academic.

Warren Spratley

Mann buys into genre, into its narrative mechanics, its situational archetypes, its clichés. He wholly accepts an established form which, unlike Godard, he has no interest in deconstructing. Mann instead wishes 2 establish a tranquil dialogue between genre & his own aesthetic principles which gravitate toward a quiet void, toward an overwhelming sense of night, cityscape. His digital maneuvers are without parallel.

msmichel

A pioneer film in digital filmmaking that attempted to make digital art instead of the cheap alternative to film it had been used for. Very cool in 2004 (one of my top 10 that year) that seems to date about as well as the cell phone technology on screen. The visual mastery hides the weakness in story as does a well cast Cruise and a top notch Oscar nominated turn by Foxx. '..since when was any of this negotiable?.'

Zac Weber

Collateral is an exceptional film, one in which the city of Los Angeles seemingly becomes a character in and of itself. The acting between Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx is outstanding, and the suspense is perfectly paced.

Zachary T.

Criminally underrated and unfairly maligned by Mann acolytes: "Collateral" is both a taut, perfectly-paced thriller and a well-realized character study. Scathing commentary on first world morality is abound, Cruise is vicious and tragic, Foxx is hilarious and sympathetic.

Harry Rossi

Its so rare to find a good modern American thriller that's smart and doesn't talk down to its audience. Aside from the last 20 minutes of this movie (which is brilliant) some of the most intense scenes of the film are the conversations between these two men, both of whom are portrayed stunningly. Foxx is great and Cruise gives one the best performances I've ever seen him in. I never thought I'd be scared of him!

Gondo

Manns journey towards a new kind of cinema was/is ever expanding, but it was with Collateral that he (in my opinion) for the first time really found what he was looking for. Slowly but surely any feeling of off-screen space dissolves in the endlessly deep and wide fibers of the digital image, so that a space is never just a space and the world outside of the frame never just a reality to be separated from any of it.

Palmat

Kind of good. The interplay between Cruise and Foxx is great but the whole third reel really torpedoes the whole movie. Such a shame...