Wow!

Tom Cruise as the bad guy! I liked it. He did a great job and that was scary. Jamie Foxx's acting was also great as the "what the heck have I gotten myself into" cabbie! The acting is what made this movie great. The content is for adults only.

A hitman decides to take a taxi, obviously the wrong taxi!

Star Driven, But Wonderfully Crafted

Michael Mann's feature Collateral is a big, star driven production that shines with a great storyline as well. His very own [[ASIN:B0006J28KU Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition)]] was another star driven story with a wonderful plot.

This time, Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx star as the hapless individuals on one fateful night in LA. Foxx stars as Max, a dream inspiring cab driver, and Cruise stars as Vincent, a smooth and calculated hitman.

The two disc set features a commentary from director Michael Mann, around four or so featurettes detailing the visual FXs, acting, and others behind the film, and a deleted scene with commentary.

Highly recommended.

Cruise and Foxx light up LA

Michael Mann is one of the top action/thriller directors working today, and COLLATERAL only serves to confirm his stature. After HEAT (which frames a classic confrontation between DeNiro and Pacino in a movie that was a symphony of violence and introspection), Mann takes two more exceptional actors in Cruise and Foxx, and sets them against each other in the confines of a taxicab. The driver Max (Foxx), a loser who dreams of paradise, is the hostage of existentialist contract killer Vincent (Cruise), who first tricks and then forces Max into chauffering him around LA as he executes his bloody tasks. Full of Mann's prototypical and wry observations, and beautifully photographed, edited and scored, the movie grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. Probably Tom Cruise's finest performance ever, as he reaches inside to extract a psychotic darkness and animal intelligence that redefines him as an actor.