Collateral Reviews

Collateral Review
by John Ulmer (Rating: 4/5)
Max (Jamie Foxx) has had a long run as a taxi cab driver in the less savory areas of Los Angeles for longer than he ever wanted or imagined. Almost oblivious to the amount of time he has dedicated to his job, Max has reached a state of denial – every...more

Collateral Review
by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4)
Ironically it's Jamie Foxx, playing a mild-mannered cabbie, and not Tom Cruise, as a merciless hit man, who blows away the opposition in Michael ("The Insider") Mann's latest thriller "Collateral." Cruise, playing against type with a tightly...more

Collateral Review
by Andy Keast (Rating: 2.5/4)
Directed by Michael Mann. Screenplay by Stuart Beattie. Starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Javier Bardem, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo. more

Collateral Review
by Joel B. Kirk (Rating: 3.5/5)
SYNOPSIS: An assassin hijacks a cab (and its driver) one evening in order to make a round of 5 kills. In that evening, the two have a colliding of personality and psychological bouts, debating what is wrong and right. more

Collateral Review
by Ryan Ellis
While Tom Cruise doesn't always feel the love from the critics, I often find myself defending him to naysayers. This zillionaire is not afraid to work with superstar actors and big-time directors. And now in 'Collateral' he's trying something new....more

Collateral Review
by JoBlo (Rating: 8/10)
PLOT: A lowly Los Angeles cab driver picks up a man who happens to be a hired killer in town to assassinate five individuals by dawn. The taxi driver is forced to take him around as he eliminates the targets from his list and a local cop gets closer and...more

Collateral Review
by Wahid Sharif (Rating: A)
There's a scene in "Collateral" where Vincent (Tom Cruise) attempts to educate Max (Jamie Foxx) on the nuances of Jazz, and how you have look beyond the surface of the notes to feel and understand the impact of the music. "It's all in the...more

Collateral Review
by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 6/10)
CAPSULE: Jamie Foxx plays a cab driver who gets an unusual passenger, a professional assassin who has a list of people to kill that night. The driver learns from the assassin how to live his life. The passenger learns why it is...more

Collateral Review
by Bob Bloom (Rating: 3/4)
COLLATERAL (2004) 3 stars out of 4. Starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill, Irma P. Hall and Barry Shabaka Henley. Music by James Newton Howard. Written by Stuart Beattie. Directed by Michael Mann....more

Collateral Review
by Robin Clifford (Rating: B)
Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) may just be an LA cabbie but he dreams of owning his own limo service and escaping the big city hubbub. That is until, one night, he picks up Vincent (Tom Cruise), a "real estate developer" who hires Max to ferry him across the...more

Collateral Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4)
In COLLATERAL, by director Michael Mann (THE INSIDER), Tom Cruise plays a bad guy, a really bad guy named Vincent. (Reportedly, Cruise was offered the part of the good guy but wanted to play the bad one instead.) In L.A. just for the night, Vincent is...more
Collateral Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 8/10)
Susan Granger's review of "Collateral" (DreamWorks) Tom Cruise loves challenges - and this is a big one. In this exhilarating, contemporary thriller directed by Michael Mann, he plays Vincent, an imperious, inscrutable, yet engaging hit-man, who...more