Good exercise of Michael Mann

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2004)

"Collateral" is worth to watch, because Michael Mann is a very interesting author, because of the cast and of the technical aspect. The film is not a classic like "Heath" (with de Niro and Pacino), "Collateral" is more mainstream -and it's true that the two main characters have some clichés: Foxx is the honest man who has a hearth, Cruise is the killer without mercy because it takes the killing like a real job. Apart from that, the plot is interesting (everything happens in one night: a taxi driver becomes hostage of a dangerous assassin). Los Angeles by night is the context of a kafkian story. The shots are all made with digital cameras. I think the film is a good exercise of the director, a good thriller... You see it for having fun and you get what you want. Actors are good, especially Tom Cruise (here is uglier and, above all, a baddie!) Be careful: in a small role (the gangster Felix) we find Spanish actor Javier Bardem -it's one of the European stars, one the new leading men of the cinema.