Cruise Should Have Been Nominated Alongside Foxx

Rating: 8/10 (14 December 2016)

Collateral (2004)
Plot In A Paragraph: A cab driver (Jamie Foxx) finds himself the hostage of a hit-man (Tom Cruise) as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.
The crime genre is one that really suits Maan, and once again he gets brilliant performances from all his actors!! Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx and Mark Ruffalo are all brilliant and Jada Pinkett Smith (whom I've never cared for) is even good, I shouldn't be surprised as Mann used her to good effect in his previous movie Ali, in fact Mann uses a few actors from Ali again Foxx, Bruce McGill (also in The Insider) and Barry Shabaka Henley are the ones I noticed, there could have been more.
The movie is filled with fantastic dialogue and great well written roles, including the supporting characters. This is actually an interesting character study as opposed to your routine thriller, there is more on show than you think.
I would have preferred it if the movie didn't end with a chase scene an a damsel in distress, but it's hard to criticise a movie that gets so much right!!
Foxx was rightly nominated for his performance, and I rethink Cruise should have been too. He is brilliant. Mann really does know how to get great performances from his actors.
Once again, the movie has a fantastic score mixed with some random songs.
Side note Jason Statham has a cameo as the guy Tom Cruise bumps into at the airport.
Anybody who has not seen this movie needs to. Anybody who hasn't seen it for a while, needs to revisit it.
With a domestic gross of $101 million Collateral gave Mann his biggest domestic Box Office gross and ended the year the 23rd highest grossing movie of 2004.