This was one of those films that looked good on the trailer but in the end left me feeling a little dissatisfied as it failed to live up to my expectations. The film stars Jamie Fox as a cab driver in Los Angeles who ends up picking up the fare from hell one evening in the form of Tom Cruise who hires Fox for the evening to drive him around in a single evening as he has five appointments to make then he needs to be returned to Los Angeles airport. He claims to be a business man tyin up a property deal but when the first person that he visits takes a sky dive out of his apartment building onto the roof of Fox taxi then the innocemt cab driver soon realises that ...  Read the complete review

If (like me) you've never been impressed by Tom Cruise's cheesy-grin, sofa-leaping persona, Collateral might just persuade you that he can act. Given a decent script, a director more interested in performance than star power and a strong lead opposite him, it seems Mr Cruise can come up with the goods after all. That's because in Collateral, Cruise turns in an excellent performance as hit man Vincent. Flying into LA for one night to eliminate a number of targets as part of a contract he forces an unlucky cabbie to drive him around. It's a role to which Cruise proves surprisingly suited. Both chilling and charming; one minute he's perfectly, the epitome of calm ...  Read the complete review

Let’s face it, the hit-man genre has been hip and cool for some time now. Directors such as Quentin Tarrantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction), Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and others have revived the twilight zone of Mafioso killings and stylish film noir to bring to life the cold existence of the contract killer. Set in a sun-baked, sprawling vista of neon lit streets and palm trees at sundown, Michael Mann directs a meticulous tale of pre-mediated death and intrigue set against the back drop of a beautifully observed Los Angeles panorama. What’s unusual about this tale is the level of intense philosophising that gets inside of the head of the main .  Read the complete review

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Although this film is a few years old now, I only got around to watching it recently, once again love film came to my rescue and filled in the Tom Cruise shaped gap. Collateral was a huge film at the time of its release and saw Tom Cruise doing two very surprising things, firstly playing an older man, even donning silver/grey hair and secondly playing the part of the bad guy, something he rarely does. The story is quite simple in that Tom Cruise plays Vincent, a suited and booted man who hails a taxi, outside LA airport, driven by Max, played by Jamie Foxx. Max is a hardworking taxi driver who is struggling to save money for his own business. ...  Read the complete review