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Collateral

Collateral Theatrical Poster
Directed byMichael Mann
Produced byMichael Mann
Julie Richardson
Written byStuart Beattie
Michael Mann (uncredited)
Frank Darabont (uncredited)
StarringTom Cruise
Jamie Foxx
Mark Ruffalo
Jada Pinkett Smith
Music byJames Newton Howard
CinematographyDion Beebe
Editing byJim Miller
Paul Rubell
Distributed by- USA -
DreamWorks SKG
- non-USA -
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)August 6, 2004
Running time119 minutes
CountryUSA USA
LanguageEnglish
Spanish
Budget-Production-
  65 million USD
-Marketing-
  40 million USD
Allmovie profile
IMDb profile

Collateral is a 2004 crime/thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5 1943 is an American Film director, Screenwriter, and producer. Stuart Beattie (born 1972 is an Australian screenwriter He attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney, Australia where his mother Sandra was a languages teacher Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated American Film director, Screenwriter and producer Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( born July 3 1962 better known by his screen name Tom Cruise, is an American Actor and Film producer Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop; December 13, 1967) is an Academy Award -winning American Actor, Singer Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American Actor. Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (born Jada Koren Pinkett on September 18 1971 is an American Actor, probably best known for her roles in films such James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an Academy Award nominated Film score Composer and Dion Beebe, ACS ASC (born 1966 is an Australian Cinematographer. Jim Miller is an American film editor Along with Paul Rubell, Miller was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing for the film Collateral Paul Rubell is a multi-award-winning Film editor. His career spans 25 years in both film and Television. DreamWorks LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, or DreamWorks Studios, is a major American Film studio Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( born July 3 1962 better known by his screen name Tom Cruise, is an American Actor and Film producer Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop; December 13, 1967) is an Academy Award -winning American Actor, Singer It was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie. Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5 1943 is an American Film director, Screenwriter, and producer. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made Stuart Beattie (born 1972 is an Australian screenwriter He attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney, Australia where his mother Sandra was a languages teacher

The film is notable for the rare villainous role that Tom Cruise plays. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( born July 3 1962 better known by his screen name Tom Cruise, is an American Actor and Film producer There was substantial praise for the performance of Jamie Foxx, including a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination. Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop; December 13, 1967) is an Academy Award -winning American Actor, Singer Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

The movie takes place in Los Angeles though the original screenplay set the story in New York City. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The City of New York Collateral is also the first major motion picture to be shot with the Viper FilmStream High-Definition Camera. Digital cinematography is the process of capturing Motion pictures as Digital images rather than on film. In an HBO movie review, director Michael Mann stated that the movie takes place on the night of January 24th to 25th, 2004 from 6:30 PM to 5:40 AM.

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Plot summary

Vincent (Tom Cruise) disembarks from his flight and exchanges briefcases with a stranger (Jason Statham, in a cameo) in the Los Angeles International Airport terminal. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( born July 3 1962 better known by his screen name Tom Cruise, is an American Actor and Film producer Jason Michael Statham (born 12 September 1972 is an English actor known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie Crime films Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Los Angeles International Airport is the primary Airport serving Los Angeles, California, the second-most populated metropolitan area of Across town, Los Angeles taxi cab driver Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) drives U. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop; December 13, 1967) is an Academy Award -winning American Actor, Singer S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith) through Los Angeles. Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (born Jada Koren Pinkett on September 18 1971 is an American Actor, probably best known for her roles in films such Striking up conversation during the trip, Annie talks about an upcoming case she's prosecuting. As Max arrives at the Justice Department building, Annie offers him her business card and departs. Moments later, Max picks up Vincent and drives him to a tenement building in Los Angeles where Vincent, impressed with Max's efficiency, offers to hire Max as a personal chauffeur for double his normal nightly profit. Max reluctantly agrees, and Vincent instructs him to park in an adjacent alley while Vincent speaks with a client. Minutes later, a body smashes onto 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 a hitman, in the city to murder five people in one night. Contract killing occurs when a private contractor or a government hires someone to kill a specific person or people for a sum of money Originally hoping to keep his occupation a secret, Vincent forces Max to drive him to two other areas destinations to kill two more targets. Before locating the fourth victim, Max visits his hospitalized mother Ida, who has been inquiring about him with the taxi dispatch. Vincent accompanies Max to the visit and pleasantly converses with Ida, allowing Max to steal his briefcase and hurl it onto the nearby freeway, destroying Vincent's intelligence. Instead of killing Max, Vincent sends him into a Mexican club owned by Felix, the man who hired Vincent, ordering Max to impersonate Vincent and acquire a backup flash drive containing the information for the last two targets.

Max meets Felix and in a pivotal moment, overcomes his fear and acts out a supremely confident, formidable, well-spoken hitman, acquiring the flash drive. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Police Detective Fanning (Mark Ruffalo) discovers a connection between the Vincent's three victims, reporting this information to the FBI agents surveiling Felix's nightclub, who identify the deceased as witnesses for a major investigation against Felix. Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American Actor. Determined to rescue the remaining witnesses, the FBI assembles a SWAT team and travels to a Korean night club, where Vincent and Max sneak inside. SWAT ( Special Weapons And Tactics) is an elite special operations tactical unit in American Police departments similar to the Taiwan Thunder Squad The FBI and Vincent converge on the witness simultaneously, igniting a fierce gunfight that throws the club into a panic, allowing Vincent to kill the fourth witness and disappear. Detective Fanning, who followed the team into the nightclub, rescues Max and drags him outside before being shot by Vincent, who beckons Max back into his cab.

Following their hasty getaway, Max and Vincent get into a heated argument, with Max calling Vincent a demented sociopath and Vincent retaliating with stinging comments about Max's lack of initiative. Antisocial personality disorder ( APD) is a Mental disorder.It is defined by the American Psychiatric Association 's Diagnostic and Statistical Max, seething with rage, deliberately crashes and flips the cab in the middle of the street. With distant police sirens approaching, Vincent abandons Max and flees into the city. The arriving officer discovers the first victim in Max’s trunk and prepares to arrest Max, who complies until he notices Annie's picture on Vincent's open laptop, identifying her as the fifth target. Max overpowers the policeman, restraining him and taking his gun and runs to Annie's office building. He reaches Annie on a stolen cell phone and warns her about Vincent's approach. Max reaches Annie's office and stops the assassination attempt by shooting Vincent in the face with the police officer's gun, wounding him, then fleeing with Annie to a nearby subway station. Vincent follows and corners them in a subway car. Vincent and Max abruptly fire at one another through a closed door, with Max escaping injury while fatally wounding Vincent. Dropping his gun and slouching against a subway seat, Vincent dies, Max and Annie silently looking on. The two disembark the train at the next station, leaving Vincent's body to ride the subway. Moments before Vincent died he asked Max that if he dies in the subway will anybody notice, echoing an earlier story of Vincent's about a man who died on the subway and laid undiscovered by commuters for some time.

Cast

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. Jason Michael Statham (born 12 September 1972 is an English actor known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie Crime films Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Bodhi Elfman (born July 19, 1969) also known as Bodhi Pine Elfman, is an American Actor. Jason Michael Statham (born 12 September 1972 is an English actor known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie Crime films Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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. Luis Villegas is a Mexican American guitarist known for New Age music, Flamenco, and Jazz. Felix himself is played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem in a cameo role. Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969 is an Academy Award -winning and critically acclaimed Spanish Actor who has starred in over two dozen

The Insider co-star Debi Mazar also makes a cameo appearance alongside Bodhi Elfman as a bickering couple in Max's cab. The Insider is a 1999 film that tells the true story of a 60 Minutes Television series exposé of the Tobacco industry Deborah "Debi" Mazar (born August 15 1964 is an American actress, perhaps best known for her trademark Jersey Girl -type appearances and as edgy Bodhi Elfman (born July 19, 1969) also known as Bodhi Pine Elfman, is an American Actor.

Reception

The film received highly positive reviews. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 213 reviews. Rotten Tomatoes is a Website devoted to reviews information and news of Movies. [1] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 71 out of 100, based on 41 reviews. Metacritic is a Website that collates reviews of music Albums games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and Books. [2]

The film opened August 6, 2004 in 3,188 theaters in the United States and Canada and grossed $24. Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page 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]

Richard Roeper placed Collateral as his 10th favorite movie of 2004. Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is a Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and from September 2000 through August 2008

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

2005 Art Directors Guild

2005 BAFTA Film Awards

2005 Black Reel Awards

2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

2005 Golden Globe Awards

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. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation Dion Beebe, ACS ASC (born 1966 is an Australian Cinematographer. The Black Reel Awards began in 2000 and were designed to annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of Black people in feature independent and television films The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA is the largest film critics organization in the U The Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The Critics Choice Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner 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. High-definition television (HDTV is a Digital television Broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Mann would employ the same camera for the filming of Miami Vice. Miami Vice is a 2006 American crime drama film about two Miami police dectives Crockett and Tubbs, who

Similarities to Heat

The film has several similarities with Mann's earlier work Heat. Heat is a 1995 American crime drama Film written and directed by Michael Mann. Heat is a 1995 American crime drama Film written and directed by Michael Mann. Both storylines are set in Los Angeles, with Heat starting in the the LA Metro and ending at LAX airport (this is reversed for Collateral). The Los Angeles County Metro Rail is the mass transit rail system of Los Angeles County Los Angeles International Airport is the primary Airport serving Los Angeles, California, the second-most populated metropolitan area of Both films share a central theme of contrasting the personalities of two main characters, both featuring a lead character named Vincent (as opposed to Heat, in Collateral Vincent is the antagonist). In addition, some of the methods and attributes of the films' criminal lead characters Neil and Vincent 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. FedEx Corporation ( is a Logistics services company based in the United States. Both Vincent and Neil demonstrate an amount of tactical training through certain shared dialogue phrases about avoidance of casualties in an engagement and by use of the Mozambique Drill. A military engagement is a Combat between two forces neither larger than a division and not smaller than a company, in which each has an assigned or perceived The Mozambique Drill (also known as the Failure Drill, Rhodesian Drill or 2+1 Drill) instructs the shooter to place a Double-tap in the center

Soundtrack

Collateral
Collateral cover
Soundtrack by James Newton Howard and Various Artists
ReleasedAugust 3/August 6, 2004
GenreSoundtrack, Score[5]
LabelHip-O Records
  1. Tom Rothrock - "Briefcase"
  2. Cody Chesnutt - "The Seed (2. James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an Academy Award nominated Film score Composer and Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Hip-O Records is a Record label, currently part of Universal Music Group, which specializes in reissues and compilations Tom Rothrock is an American Record producer, composer and Musician. Cody ChesnuTT is an American Musician of Jamaican descent from Atlanta Georgia, whose music blends elements of rock, Funk 0)" (ft. The Roots) (extended radio edit)
  3. Groove Armada - "Hands of Time"
  4. Calexico - "Guero Canelo"
  5. Tom Rothrock - "Rollin' Crumblin'"
  6. James Newton Howard - "Max Steals Briefcase"
  7. Green Car Motel - "Destino De Abril"
  8. Audioslave - "Shadow on the Sun"
  9. James Newton Howard - "Island Limos"
  10. Miles Davis - "Spanish Key"
  11. Klazz Brothers - "Air" (ft. The Roots are an American hip-hop band from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Groove Armada are Big beat duo Andy Cato and Tom Findlay from England. Calexico is a rock band based in Tucson Arizona, known for playing an eclectic variety of music James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an Academy Award nominated Film score Composer and Audioslave was an American Hard rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles California in 2001 James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an Academy Award nominated Film score Composer and Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26 1926 &ndash September 28 1991 was an American Jazz Trumpeter, Bandleader, and Composer. Cuba Percussion"
  12. Paul Oakenfold - "Ready Steady Go (Korean Style)"
  13. Antonio Pinto - "Car Crash"
  14. James Newton Howard - "Vincent Hops Train"
  15. James Newton Howard - "Finale"
  16. Antonio Pinto - "Requiem"

References

  1. ^ Collateral - Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes is a Website devoted to reviews information and news of Movies. Retrieved on 2007-10-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus
  2. ^ Collateral (2004): Reviews. Metacritic. Metacritic is a Website that collates reviews of music Albums games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and Books. Retrieved on 2007-10-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus
  3. ^ Collateral (2004) - Weekend Box Office. Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo is a Website that tracks Box office Revenue in a systematic way Retrieved on 2007-10-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus
  4. ^ Collateral (2004). Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo is a Website that tracks Box office Revenue in a systematic way Retrieved on 2007-10-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus
  5. ^ Collateral Soundtrack CD

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The Village		Box office number-one films of 2004 (USA)
August 8, 2004		Succeeded by
Alien vs. Predator
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