Entertaining and Tense

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2004)

Mostly, "Collateral" is a very good film. The film is very well-made, turning the night-time Los Angeles into a beautiful, shadowy dream world, illuminated by shimmering neon. Both Jamie Foxx (as the innocent cabbie Max) and Tom Cruise (playing against type as the ruthless hit-man Vincent) are very good and play off each other very well in the taxi cab face-offs.
The film has a very similar feel to director Michael Mann's earlier film "Heat". It's main flaws lie in some of the fairly obvious twists and coincidences in the plot. Still, that being said, it is a sleek, stylish and often very entertaining thriller.