Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices.

Collateral, which I watched recently is a crime movie about a taxi driver in LA who is played by Jamie Foxx. He is held at gun point by a trigger happy Tom Cruse who makes him drive around to various spots so that he can kill certain targets.  So then for most of the movie Cruise goes around LA murdering people at bars, clubs and in dark allies.  It reminded my of Phone Booth with Colin Firth. Towards the end it seems like Cruise is a super assassin because he always has a another clip in his pocket. It seems like he has ten or fifteen clips in his pocket. He is able to walk into a crowded night club and pick off all the guards and take out his target
Even while the place is swarming with cops. Then to add to
the over the top action Foxx in an effort to kill Cruise causes the cab to do a roll over, which both men survive.  Cruise is able to walk away with blood all over his head and go kill some  more. Even after being shot he still survives. While it may be entertaining it's not as good as some of the other works my Michael Mann who is not related to Anthony Mann. His best film is Heat. It's to bad that Jason Statham only has a 1 minute part at beginning of the film.

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