Collateral= Top notch drama-thriller at it's best

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2007)

Collateral is another one of my personal favorites.Directed by Michael Mann,this film would be one of the two best Michael Mann's film alongside Heat. The film stars Tom Cruise in a rare villainous role as a sociopathic hit-man by the name of Vincent who is hired for five hits in a single night to take down witnesses in a case against Felix Reyes-Torrena(Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem) and Jamie Foxx who plays Max Durocher who is a cab driver who accidentally gets caught up in Vincent's path whilst driving him around Los Angeles.This film co-stars Jada Pinkett Smith as Annie Farrell,a prosecutor in the aforementioned case and one of Vincent's target and Mark Ruffalo as Detective Ray Fanning who discovers the string of murders and finds out more clues as to what is happening in the night.This film was also nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor-Jamie Foxx and Best Film Editing.But I was surprised that Tom Cruise wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award as this was his best role to date and that Jamie Foxx wasn't considered the lead actor as he had more dialogue but Tom Cruise had more actions.Either way,this film will go down as one of my personal favorites.Bravo!