Collateral

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jeevan r

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Iv just seen this film and gotta say i really enjoyed it. Tom Cruise usually in his films has a boyish charm and flashes his trademark grin to highlight this trait, but here the grin does reflect his charm but in a different, colder way. Vincent, the character he plays, is very complex (more so than the previews let on), and in fact, so are just about all the characters in the film. But Jamie Foxx really shines as Max, a cab driver who once had(and still has) dreams of something bigger and better out of life. The best part of the film is the tension between Max and Vincent. Overall, a great turn as a bad guy for Tom Cruise, and a surprisingly good dramatic performance from Jamie Foxx. One of the best film I've seen this summer :cool:
 
Its extremely good. I just saw it too and i was very impressed by the way it was shot and the storyline. There are parts where you feel sorry for tom's character (vincent) like when he talks about his life, but when he starts to kill people again, you just want him to get shot and get the hell off our screens. And the end...I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it.
 
so its a good film then??, i want to see it, but wasnt sure bout it first, since you guys think its fab, i think i will get it and watch it...

cheers guys!!!!

joey :cool:
 
I thought the acting in the film was particularly good. Tom Cruise put in an excellent performance, and Jamie Foxx as Max was an inspired choice. He put in a performance as good as, if not better, than that of Any Given Sunday. Definately one to watch IMO
 
....and I'll add my two penneth, I agree with the other posters, this is an excellent film. I watched it this dinner and definately think it is the best Tom Cruise film I've seen for a while. Jamie Foxx was great as the LA cabby too.

GO OUT AND SEE THIS FILM !!
 
Weeeell, I agree with the other posters to a point. Tom Cruise is excellent as always (a lot of reviews are written as though this is the first bad guy Cruise has ever played, haven't they seen Interview with a Vampire?), Jamie Foxx is also very good as the cabbie. It does have it's faults though. The opening scenes before Cruise appears are interminably dull, and by the sheer length of them you just know that they will have an impact later on, otherwise what's the point of them, so bang goes one 'twist'. Having said that, there are several occasions where the script goes off in a direction you weren't expecting. The script was also good in that just when you thought it was going to turn into a buddy movie and that Vince and Max were becoming too chummy to be believable, Vince would do something or say something and you realised he really couldn't give a sh!t about Max at all and would kill him in a second if he had to. The ending lets the film down I feel. After 2/3 of the film being a very interesting character study, it decenRAB into formulaic, cat and mouse standard fodder, even employing one of the most hackneyed plot devices which I thought Mann would be above (there was a collective groan at my cinema at this point).
All in all, well worth watching, but not up to Mann's usual standard as exemplified in Heat and The Insider.
 
the last scene with cruise on the train was... crap. Nobody dies like that... "if a man died on a train, would anybody realise" and then he just dies as if on cue..... :rolleyes:

Rest of the film was CLASS though
 
hmm, still don't know if I liked this one - It seemed so long and dragged out in parts - I was pretty bored - Probably would have enjoyed it more if it was a shorter film
 
Sorry to disappoint you Xeryus but come the end Vincent is definitely dead. He knows he's dying, hence his "if a man died on a train would anyone notice" line. This is a reprise of his earlier rant about why he hates LA, as he read that that had recently happened and the guy went round the line for hours because no-one noticed or cared he was dead. It's also a copy of the way Mann ended Heat (even using practically identical music), where the two protagnists were heading for a final showdown which you knew only one could survive (Hannah in Heat, Max in Collateral). If Vincent was alive, there's no reason for him to accept defeat. The police don't know he's there (remember the only cop that suspected Max wasn't in it alone was killed), Max has walked away. Being the guy that he is, Vince would have got the hell away from there.
 
I saw it over the weekend and have to say that I didn't think a whole lot of it really. It was predicatable, dragged in a lot of parts and the end on the train..........no didn't like that either. Who dies like that? Head down as though you were asleep and even though the train was rocking too and fro he still managed to stay upright.
 
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