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By Tiltuesday
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Monday, 17 January 2005
 Michael Mann is one of the most stylish American directors around. Not only was he the first filmmaker to bring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino together on the screen at the same time in his masterpiece Heat, but he also gave us the superior Manhunter (forget Red Dragon as the so-called definitive version of Thomas Harris' best-selling thriller). Collateral fits nicely alongside those two movies and shows what a fine director he is.Max (Jamie Foxx), a night shift LA taxi driver who dreams of starting up his own limousine company, happens to pick up a businessman named Vincent (Tom Cruise with greying hair and a beard) who offers him a lot of money to drive around to five different destinations. Max, knowing that this breaks the rules, refuses at first, but when Vincent starts flashing the cash finds it hard to resist – except the businessman isn't quite what he seems and, before he knows it, Max is the witness to a homicide and the driver of an assassin.
Mann keeps the pace rolling steadily, although the film has some slow points, and draws some fine performances from the two main characters. If you want to see Cruise play someone nasty, then this is the movie for you.
(4/5) Release Date: 17 January 2005
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