Great Premise But Ultimately Stupid Movie

Rating: 5/10 (3 September 2010)

"Collateral" takes a promising premise and ruins it with stupid execution.
Tom Cruise plays a hit man who pretty much kidnaps cab driver Jamie Foxx and makes him drive him around all night while he does his dirty work. There was plenty of material for an interesting character study, but chronically inconsistent director Michael Mann instead goes the action movie route, which finds Foxx turning into superhero while Cruise tracks him down like the Terminator.
Foxx received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this in the same year that saw him win the lead Oscar for "Ray."
Grade: C