One of The Best Movies I Have Seen In Years

Rating: 9/10 (19 April 2006)

The movie Collateral is a very entertaining piece of film work. The plot line of this movie is not one that would entice many, but the way that Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise executed their roles is so unprecedented that it was a film that many people saw as "edge-of-your-seat" material. The plot line was where a cabbie had to drive a hit-man around so that he could make his raids. I was on the edge of my seat when Max (Jamie Foxx) discovered that Vincent's (Tom Cruise) final stop of the 5 stops that he had to make was to kill Annie, (Jada Pinkett Smith) the woman that Max met when he took her to her office downtown. I won't go into details because I want to keep the movie suspenseful. Also, I was a bit more impressed with Jamie Foxx's role in the movie because he is mainly a comedian, but he did very well in the role of a thriller. Tom Cruise is an actor who performs in a lot of different genres of films. Many people who watch these kinds of movies will not see them as realistic, but there are plenty of cabbies just like Max that could get suckered in as a chauffeur for a hit-man like Vincent. Overall, I thought that Collateral was a very good movie and I would recommend it to anyone that liked suspenseful thrillers. This is not the kind of movie that will scare people too much, but it is so chronological and entertaining that it would keep someone in the living room watching it from start to finish.