Film: Collateral
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Sun, Apr 13, 8:15 pm Tom Cruise is Vincent, a hitman who unloads his personal baggage on cab driver Max, played with understated grace by Academy Award nominated Jamie Foxx. The smiling and hyper controlled Vincent is a killer whose hubris is challenged by Max’s humanity, as the latter is forced into chauffeuring the hitman from job to job for one night. Director Michael Mann’s (HEAT) love affair with the neon blue nightscape of Los Angeles has never been put more vividly on display. The pair is shown endlessly gliding over highways as Vincent’s meticulous plans unravel and the tables start to turn between the two men. The film shifts into overdrive when Max finally takes action to protect himself and one of Vincent’s targets (Jada Pinkett Smith), a prosecutor he can see being stalked in her office tower from his vantage point on a parking garage far below—just one of the standout sequences in a movie steeped in Mann’s distinct visual style. DIR/PROD Michael Mann; SCR Stuart Beattie; PROD Julie Richardson. US, 2004, color, 120 min. RATED R
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