Whaddaya know - a good Tom Cruise movie!

Rating: 8/10 (26 April 2005)

As far as I am concerned, Tom Cruise's only good work thus far was Legend and Interview With the Vampire (and possibly Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, but I haven't seen that one).
I wasn't in any hurry to see Collateral, but now I have, and I was quite surprised. It is enormously well-written; the story works on all levels, also as an action movie. Exciting, realistic, well-acted, well-directed - impressive in every way. Everybody involved did a stellar job, resulting in an action thriller of rare quality.
I rate the movie a solid 8 out of 10. While it was a serious and thoroughly well-produced effort, it probably isn't going to achieve the status of a classic. But it'll certainly be worth watching again sometime.