Collateral Critic Reviews

As a result of Mann's craftsmanship and concern, Collateral crackles with energy and purpose, a propulsive film with character on its mind and confident men and women on both sides of the camera.Read the full review

Hugely entertaining thriller.Read the full review

The best kind of genre filmmaking: It plays by the rules, obeys the traditions and is both familiar and fresh at once. Read the full review

Shake it all up and you get Collateral, a movie with only one conceivable flaw: its disinclination to break new ground, though no one held that against "The Fugitive" more than a decade of Augusts ago.Read the full review

This is a rare thriller that's as much character study as sound and fury.Read the full review

No crime film in years boasts a cooler vibe than Michael Mann's dazzling Collateral.Read the full review

Michael Mann's tensely funny and alive Los Angeles night-world thriller, is, in its own twisty way, a very high-stakes buddy movie, yet it doesn't look like one, because it leaps off from a situation more jangled and threatening than we're used to. Read the full review

Occupying a dramatic, philosophical and sensory twilight zone that casts a considerable spell, this intensely focused piece soars not only on the director's precision-tooled style but also on the outstanding interplay between leads Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.Read the full review

If Collateral is all formula, it's polished to a fine sheen. Read the full review