Collateral (film)

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Collateral
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Collateral Theatrical Poster
Directed by Michael Mann
Produced by Michael Mann
Julie Richardson
Written by Stuart Beattie
Michael Mann (uncredited)
Frank Darabont (uncredited)
Starring Tom Cruise
Jamie Foxx
Mark Ruffalo
Jada Pinkett Smith
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography Dion Beebe
Editing by Jim Miller
Paul Rubell
Distributed by - USA -
DreamWorks SKG
- non-USA -
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) August 6, 2004
Running time 119 minutes
Country USA Image:Flag of the United States.svg
Language English
Spanish
Budget -Production-
  65 million USD
-Marketing-
  40 million USD
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IMDb profile

Collateral is a 2004 Academy Award-nominated thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. It was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie.

The film is notable for the rare villainous role Tom Cruise plays. There was substantial praise for the performance of Jamie Foxx, including a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination.

The movie takes place in Los Angeles though the original screenplay set the story in New York City. Collateral is also the first major motion picture to be shot with the Viper FilmStream High-Definition Camera.

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[edit] Plot summary

Vincent (Tom Cruise) disembarks from his flight and exchanges briefcases with a stranger (Jason Statham) in the Los Angeles International Airport terminal. Across town, Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) a Los Angeles taxi cab driver, drives Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, through Los Angeles. Striking up conversation during the trip, Max reveals his aspirations to establish a limousine company, while Annie talks about an upcoming case she's prosecuting. Recognizing Annie's inherent stress, Max offers her his meditative postcard of a tropical island for comfort. Annie, grateful for the gesture, offers her business card before departing. Soon afterwards, Max picks up Vincent and drives him to a tenement building in Los Angeles where Vincent, impressed with Max's efficiency, offers Max double his normal wage to act as Vincent's chauffeur for the night. Max agrees, and Vincent instructs him to park in an adjacent alley while Vincent speaks with a client in a nearby building. Minutes later, a body lands on Max's cab, shattering the windshield and propelling him from his seat. Max discovers that Vincent was responsible. Before he can escape, Vincent takes him hostage and together they hide the body in Max's trunk.

Vincent reveals that he is actually a hitman, in the city to murder five people before the night is through. Vincent, originally hoping to keep his occupation a secret, has Max drive him to two other destinations in Los Angeles, where he kills two more targets. Before locating the fourth victim, Max visits his hospitalized mother, who has been inquiring about him with the taxi dispatch. Vincent, who accompanies Max during his visit, gets along surprisingly well with Ida, triggering in Max an outburst of jealous irrationality when he steals Vincent's briefcase and hurls it into a nearby freeway, destroying Vincent's client list and background information. Instead of killing Max, Vincent orders him to a Mexican club owned by Felix, the organized crime boss responsible for hiring Vincent. Vincent orders Max to gain entry posing as Vincent with the goal of acquiring a flash drive containing the identities of the last two targets. Max initially refuses but then reluctantly agrees after Vincent threatens his mother.

Inside, Max meets Felix and initially fails to impress him but, in a pivotal moment of do-or-die desperation, he suddenly but ever so smoothly takes on Vincent’s persona as a supremely confident, formidable, well-spoken hitman, allowing him to acquire the flash drive and safely depart. Following Max's departure, Felix orders his guards to follow Vincent to the next target and should anything go wrong to kill him. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Police Detective Fanning (Mark Ruffalo) discovers that the death of one of his informants is linked to the murder of two other individuals in West Hollywood and South Central. He reports this information to the FBI who are currently surveilling Felix's nightclub and who reveal the deceased as would-be witnesses in a major investigation against Felix. Determined to rescue the remaining witnesses, the FBI assembles a SWAT team and travel to a Korean night club, arriving moments after Vincent, now inside with Max, who is followed by two of Felix's men. The FBI, Vincent and Felix's men converge on the witness at the same time. As the erupting gunfire throws the crowd into a panic, Vincent shoots and kills the fourth target before disappearing into the crowd. Detective Fanning, who followed the team into the nightclub, finds and rescues Max, drags him outside before being shot by Vincent, who beckons Max back into his cab, where the two make a hasty getaway.

A distraught Max argues with Vincent about killing Detective Fanning. Vincent rehashes his comments about Max's own lack of initiative without realizing what had occurred during the perilous encounter with Felix. Max, now seething with rage, accelerates and deliberately flips the car in the middle of the street. With distant police sirens approaching, Vincent leaves Max and the cab behind. When the first officer on the scene discovers the first victim in Max’s trunk, he attempts to arrest Max, who initially complies. However, after seeing Annie's picture on Vincent's open laptop screen in the wrecked cab, Max then realizes that Vincent's last target is Annie. Max springs once more into desperate action and quickly and decisively overpowers the policeman. Max handcuffs him and takes Vincent's gun from the wreckage, running to Annie's office just as Vincent corners Annie and prepares to kill her. Max surprises and wounds Vincent before escaping with Annie to the subway station below the building. Vincent quickly recovers from his flesh wound and eventually corners them in a subway car. The two square off just as a power surge hits the subway cars and both Vincent and Max open fire through the door between them. When the lights return, Max has run out of ammunition and Vincent is fatally wounded. Dropping his gun and resigning himself to his fate, he slouches on one of the subway seats and dies, with Max and Annie silently looking on. The two get off the train at the next exit, leaving Vincent's body to ride the subway.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Cameos

In the beginning of the film, upon leaving the airport, Vincent (Tom Cruise) receives the briefcase containing his files from an Englishman, played by Jason Statham, in a possible reprisal of the fictional character Frank Martin, between Martin's main appearances in The Transporter and Transporter 2.

In the scene where Max enters the "El Rodeo" nightclub to meet with Felix, jazz guitarist, Luis Villegas, appears in the background as a member of the band playing in the club. Felix himself is played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem in a cameo role.

The Insider co-star Debi Mazar also makes a cameo appearance alongside Bodhi Elfman as a bickering couple in Max's cab.

[edit] Reception

The film was well-reviewed by most critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 212 reviews.[1] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 71 out of 100, based on 41 reviews.[2]

The film opened August 6, 2004 in 3,188 theaters in the United States and Canada and grossed $24.7 million its opening weekend, ranking #1 at the box office.[3] It remained in theaters for 14 weeks and eventually grossed $101 million in the United States and Canada. In other countries it grossed a total of $116.7 million, and had a total worldwide gross of $217.7 million.[4]

[edit] Awards and nominations

2005 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards

2005 Academy Awards (Oscars)

2005 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (Saturn Awards)

2005 American Society of Cinematographers

  • Nominated - Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases — Dion Beebe, Paul Cameron

2005 Art Directors Guild

  • Nominated - Feature Film - Contemporary Film — David Wasco, Daniel T. Dorrance, Aran Mann, Gerald Sullivan, Christopher Tandon

2005 BAFTA Film Awards

  • Won - Best Cinematography — Dion Beebe, Paul Cameron
  • Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role — Jamie Foxx
  • Nominated - David Lean Award for Direction — Michael Mann
  • Nominated - Best Editing — Jim Miller, Paul Rubell
  • Nominated - Best Screenplay (Original) — Stuart Beattie
  • Nominated - Best Sound — Elliott Koretz, Lee Orloff, Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga

2005 Black Reel Awards

  • Won - Best Supporting Actor — Jamie Foxx
  • Nominated - Best Supporting Actress — Jada Pinkett Smith

2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

2005 Golden Globe Awards

  • Nominated - Best Supporting Actor - Jamie Foxx

[edit] Filming in high-definition

Michael Mann chose to use the Viper FilmStream High-Definition Camera to film many of the scenes of Collateral, the first such use in a major motion picture. There are many scenes of the movie where the use of the high-definition is evident - especially in scenes where the landscape or skyline of Los Angeles is visible in the background, but also during many of the nighttime scenes, where the high-definition is able to bring out more details in a dark, colorless scene. Mann would employ the same camera for the filming of Miami Vice.

[edit] Similarities to Heat

The film has several similarities with Mann's earlier work Heat. Both films are set in Los Angeles, and share a central theme of contrasting the personalities of two main characters. In addition, some of the methods and attributes of the films criminal lead characters Vincent and Neil are similar, most notably the use of a particular appearance so as not to be memorable. To this end in preparation for the role of Vincent, Tom Cruise went to the lengths of making FedEx deliveries in a crowded market without being recognised, as seen in the DVD extras. The films also share some dialogue phrases about the methods of shooting people for avoidance of casualties. Both films also have a lead character named Vincent, although in Heat, Vincent is the protagonist.

[edit] Soundtrack

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Track listing:

  1. Briefcase - Tom Rothrock
  2. Seed, The (2.0) - The Roots/Cody Chesnutt (extended radio edit)
  3. Hands Of Time - Groove Armada
  4. Guero Canelo - Calexico
  5. Rollin' Crumblin' - Tom Rothrock
  6. Max Steals Briefcase - James Newton Howard
  7. Destino De Abril - Green Car Motel
  8. Shadow On The Sun - Audioslave
  9. Island Limos - James Newton Howard
  10. Spanish Key - Miles Davis
  11. Air - Cuba Percussion/Klazz Brothers
  12. Ready Steady Go (Korean Style)- Paul Oakenfold
  13. Car Crash - Antonio Pinto
  14. Vincent Hops Train - James Newton Howard
  15. Finale - James Newton Howard
  16. Requiem - Antonio Pinto
  • Details:
  • Distributor: Universal Distribution
  • Recording type: Studio
  • Recording mode: Stereo
  • SPAR Code: n/a
  • Composer: James Newton Howard.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Collateral - Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
  2. ^ Collateral (2004): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
  3. ^ Collateral (2004) - Weekend Box Office. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
  4. ^ Collateral (2004). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.

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