Pleasing, yet somehow lacking

Rating: 8/10 (4 September 2004)

Collateral is not just an action movie. It's not just a suspense movie either. The good thing about Collateral is that it spans genres through its story and does it effectively. Tom Cruise's character is convincing, although Jamie Foxx does a better job at capturing the audience's attention.
This movie depends on the interactions between the two, and it's in those moments that it seems to succeed. The twist at the end was good, and definitely surprising, but there still was some (or a lot) left to the imagination. Leaving this movie, it was hard to be completely satisfied because it's hard to be sure if everything was really resolved. This movie was pretty good but with its cast and direction it could have been much better and should have aimed much higher.