Movie Review: Collateral

[Clarkmeister]

Very good performances by both Cruise and Foxx. Superb soundtrack. Not a 4-star flick, but still very good, somewhere between 3 and 3.5 stars. Well worth the price of the ticket.

[bernie]

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Well worth the price of the ticket.

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Matinee?

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[Clarkmeister]

Nope. Full-boat $9 for an evening show. Very good flick though.

[The Dude]

I just saw it last night, and I agree. Not Best Picutre quality, but very entertaining. Well worth seeing in the theatres.

My respect for Jamie Foxx has grown, and I'm looking forward to seeing Ray. It should be good.

[Ulysses]

I just saw it and thought it was pretty good and definitely entertaining. Some of it was a little too far-fetched to buy, but nothing too crazy, I guess.

[Jimbo]

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Nope. Full-boat $9 for an evening show. Very good flick though.

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Nine Bucks!!!! I still live in the land of $5.50 movie tickets and that is too high. /images/graemlins/smile.gif At $9 I'd wait for the HD broadcast on HBO. lol

Jimbo

[astroglide]

it's $7-$8 in missouri so i can't imagine where you live that it's that cheap

[Vehn]

1982.

[Ulysses]

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it's $7-$8 in missouri so i can't imagine where you live that it's that cheap

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I get to pay Fandango $11.50 per.

[MMMMMM]

So, anybody know why Cruise is a Scientologist?

Every new movie he appears in reminds me of this, and every time I just say "wtf?" to myself and never get an answer.

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Nope. Full-boat $9 for an evening show. Very good flick though.

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Nine Bucks!!!! I still live in the land of $5.50 movie tickets and that is too high. /images/graemlins/smile.gif At $9 I'd wait for the HD broadcast on HBO. lol

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Try $11 here in NY.

[brassnuts]

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My respect for Jamie Foxx has grown, and I'm looking forward to seeing Ray. It should be good.


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I agree, he's come quite a ways from In Living Color.

[holeplug]

It was a very good "popcorn" movie and was actually better than I thought it was gonna be. The coolest scene in the movie was when Tom Cruise's character shot those 2 thugs in the alley after they took his brief case. Half the people in the theater went "whoa" after that.

[astroglide]

most of my theater was cheering

[Sooga]

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it's $7-$8 in missouri so i can't imagine where you live that it's that cheap

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I get to pay Fandango $11.50 per.

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11.50? jesus christ.... This is why I still have my 6-year old college ID. Student discount is +EV.

[andyfox]

No cheering in my theater, but laughing. Especially when, when the guy was writhing not quite dead, he shot him again on the way back to the taxi.

[andyfox]

And agree with your comments on the acting and soundtrack.

Some borrowings from Orson Welles:

1) Cruise's speech about how one should not be concerned for individual lives was a rip-off of Welles' speech on the ferris wheel, which we recently discussed on this forum, in The Third Man. (and relates to David's recent post on the psychology forum)

2) The glass crashing in the office tower reminded me of the mirror scene in Lady from Shanghai.

The movie was Heat redux: the relationship between the good guy and the bad guy and how they become more like each other as the movie goes on. I felt a bit let down by the last twenty minutes which seemed weaker, more run-of-the-mill, than the rest.

Great acting, too, by the "bit" players: the trumpet player in the jazz club, the guy who played "Felix," and, most of all, by the woman who played Foxx's mother.

[Bill Murphy]

I know the "flip the car w/a bad guy in it" scene has been done before too, but I can't remember where.

Loved the movie, IMO much better than Heat. "Daniel" was way cool. I'd love to have the entire soundtrack. That's the COOL jazz, not the modern crap.

[Bill Murphy]

I liked this far better than KB. And Jada's hotter than Uma, too. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Duke]

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This is why I still have my 6-year old college ID. Student discount is +EV.

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You do realize that you've given up a lifetime of being able to call Wayne cheap.

~D

[astroglide]

i love to rip on people for being cheap, but the school id thing is strict pragmatism. not cheap.

[moondogg]

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My respect for Jamie Foxx has grown, and I'm looking forward to seeing Ray. It should be good.


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I agree, he's come quite a ways from In Living Color.

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*cough*breakinalltherules*ahem*

Pardon me. Something in my throat.

[The Dude]

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I liked this far better than KB.

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You're stupid.

[Rick Nebiolo]

Don't read if you don't want the ending sort of revealed since I wrote a minor rant below (scroll down if interested).
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thought it was good fun but why at the end of these movies the good guy shoots/stabs/disables the bad guy, the bad guy has been almost invincible up to that point, and the good guy runs away or doesn't unload his full clip in him just to make sure? human nature would demand it. then like in this movie the bad guy gets back up and we get another chase scene.

i'm looking forward to "open water"

~ rick

[playerfl]

this deserves its own thread, but should be expanded to include John Travolta and others.

[Bill Murphy]

I thought you could let such trivial things abide, dude.

[The Dude]

Apology accepted.

[Homer]

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I liked this far better than KB.

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You're stupid.

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Kill Bill sucked ass.

[Clarkmeister]

Pssst. Homer. You typed "sucked" where you meant to type "kicked".

[BeerMoney]

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[andyfox]

I also disliked the ending. But of course, one knew what the ending would be long before it happened.

[nef]

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I know the "flip the car w/a bad guy in it" scene has been done before too, but I can't remember where.

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Turner and Hooch was one, not a flip, but crashing into a wall.

[Philuva]

As a 28 year old who looks 20 and is constantly asked for ID at bars and abused about looking young at work, i find the student ID to be fairly justified.