Shere Hite

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2005)

I don't often post reviews on here but having seen the ludicrously high ratings this film has been getting I felt I had to lower the average a bit. The shame of it is that Collateral actually started quite well, for the first 45 minutes or so it was quite intriguing, with some amusingly black comic moments. Then it just went berserk, with each scene more implausible than the last. Cruise turns into an unkillable Terminator-type figure and the mild mannered cab driver fools gangsters into thinking he's a hit-man and then becomes an all-action hero. Sorry, but this was tosh. Michael Mann must be one of the most over-rated directors and Tom Cruise adds yet another blockbuster turkey to his increasingly long list - Days of Thunder, Far and Away, Minority Report, Mission Impossible I and II - has he ever actually made a decent film? Collateral certainly isn't it I'm afraid.