Collateral (2004)

Collateral (2004)

Collateral (2004)

The movie was directed by Michael Mann who also wrote it along with Stuart Beattie and Frank Darabont. He also produced it along with Julie Richardson. The movie was distributed by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. It was released on August 6, 2004 in the United States with a budget of $65 million and earned $217,764,291 in gross revenue. It has 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 224 reviews and 7.8 star rating on IMDb.

The movie is a crime thriller starring Tom Cruise as Vincent, Jamie Foxx as Max Durocher, Jada Pinkett Smith as Annie Farrell, and Mark Ruffalo as LAPD Detective Ray Fanning. It also casts Javier Bardem as Felix and Jason Statham makes a special cameo appearance in the beginning of the movie as an Airport Man. The movie is set in Los Angeles, California and according to the director takes place on the night of January 24 to 25, 2004 from 6:30 PM to 5:40 PM.

The most praised performance in this movie was of Jamie Foxx for which he also got nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. On its opening weekend it ranked number 1 at the box office. Richard Roeper placed it as his 10th favorite movie of 2004 and it was also voted as the 9th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors. The movie was also nominated for an Oscar in the Best Editing category. It was also nominated for best picture category in Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and Art Directors Guild. In this film, all the cast members have done their jobs well with a dedicated performance. The film holds suspense as to what will happen next, though there are not many twists and turns with story going smooth much of the time, but it is the action and direction of the movie itself that keep the audience at the edge of their seat most of the time. The character of a cab driver with many ambitions in life is brilliantly portrayed by Jamie Foxx and so he is deservedly of all the praise that he received for this particular performance.

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