Nothing like going along for the ride.

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2004)

Max(Jamie Foxx)is a mild mannered ambitious taxi driver who must endure the fare of his life. Vincent(Tom Cruise) is a professional hit man that pays Max six hundred dollars to drive him all over Los Angeles as he commits a series of commissioned hits. Reluctlantly Max complies with the gray haired and suave hit man; and finally garners his sense of right and wrong to stop the killer from executing the final victim on his list...an attorney played by Jada Pinkett Smith. A night not too easy to forget.
It is unusual to see Cruise playing this sort of character and with gray hair even. But I think he pulls it off very well. Foxx exercises his dramatic talents in this Michael Mann thriller. The cast is rounded out with Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg and Bruce McGill. My favorite scene is early in the movie when Fox reacts to the first victim falling on the top of his taxi. COLLATERAL is worth your interest.