Synopsis
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
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Cast
- Jamie FoxxMax Durocher
- Tom CruiseVincent
- Jada Pinkett SmithAnnie Farrell
- Mark RuffaloDet. Ray Fanning
- Peter BergRichard Weidner
- Javier BardemFelix Reyes-Torrena
- Bruce McGillFrank Pedrosa
- Klea ScottZee
- Barry Shabaka HenleyDaniel Baker
- Irma P. HallIda Durocher
Recommendations
- 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Most of the time we are with Cruise and Foxx, and their interplay is never less than galvanizing. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Michael Mann's tensely funny and alive Los Angeles night-world thriller, is, in its own twisty way, a very high-stakes buddy movie, yet it doesn't look like one, because it leaps off from a situation more jangled and threatening than we're used to. - 80
Newsweek
Mann vividly captures the nocturnal pulse of East L.A. in this taut, confined game of cat and mouse. In the homestretch the thrills get too generic and farfetched for their own good. But the first two thirds are a knockout. - 80
The New Yorker
Shot by shot, scene by scene, Mann, whose recent work includes “Heat” and "The Insider," may be the best director in Hollywood. Methodical and precise, he analyzes a scene into minute components. - 80
Time
As much a dark, odd couple comedy as it is a quirky, efficient little thriller. - 80
Variety
Occupying a dramatic, philosophical and sensory twilight zone that casts a considerable spell, this intensely focused piece soars not only on the director's precision-tooled style but also on the outstanding interplay between leads Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The movie never really gets below that surface. It sticks to the mean streets of Los Angeles without much introspection or analysis. But those surfaces are slick and beguiling. - 70
The A.V. Club
Mann's moody Collateral unravels toward the end, faltering at its conclusion but dispensing enough atmosphere, characterization, and world-weary humanism along the way that audiences would be wise to enjoy the ride without worrying too much about the final destination.
