COLLATERAL
With Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx
Directed by Michael Mann
Michael Mann has given us a range of flicks from thrillers like the
Red Dragon adaptation Manhunter, horrors like The Keep,
historic period action romance like Last Of The Mohicans, crime
thrillers like Heat and sports biopics like Ali. Not to
forget his creation of Miami Vice. This tense thriller focuses
the action on two characters in the confined space of a taxi, occasionally
venturing out. A taxi driver aspiring to start his own limo service
takes pride in his job and vehicle. His night shift becomes a nightmare
when an assassin makes him complicit in his list of hits by forcing
him to drive from one location to the next. A very well paced, exciting
and tense drama with action elements, both leads delivering good performances
as we wait for the outcome of this fateful night. I sometimes wonder
exactly how they decide who is the lead in a situation like this. Reason
being Foxx got Oscar®
nominated as best supporting actor (simultaneously with best lead for
Ray, which he got of course) - but with pretty much the same screen
time as Cruise (and no less inferior performance), does Tom get lead
status because he's been doing it longer, gets paid more, is whiter?
Hey, I don't know, but it would've been cool had Foxx grabbed both lead
and supporting Oscars®, don't you think?
5 / C
- PB
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