Kind of OVERRATED

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2004)

As I look at the rating of this movie I must say that Collateral is overrated. Maybe you American people only get into the spirit of things if you see guns and people getting shot. This is what the movie is about.
As I went into the cinema I had the choice between Aliens VS Predator and Collateral and a lot more which I did not want to see.
What I did not like about the movie was that it is only shot in LA. All you see is this city and the clubs and so. Moreover all you get to see is people dying.
I also hated the ending. As Tom Cruise gets into the building. Why is he heading down to turn off the main power supply, instead of going two floors higher in the 16th and killing his last victim. Moreover he than keeps searching the woman in the dark. This was so stupid!
And the so clichéd ending. As somebody dies. He or she does not say such cool things as Tom did - just to remember as at the beginning and make us rethink the entire movie.
When I watched a movie I always keep on thinking what the writer wanted to tell us. Did he wrote the script just to entertain us or did he really want us to think about something. The message I got from Collateral is, if you would blame something very important, life could be more complicated. Say that Tom's first victim did not fell out of that window. Would he have any trouble during the movie? No!
I give Collateral a 4.3 out of 10.
Collateral is nothing special, however the music is very nice and over average for sure.