I just saw Collateral today and I must say it's the best movie I've seen this year (yep, better than Bourne). Jamie Foxx played a great role, not your typical ghetto character either (ie: Tyrese in 2fast2furious, etc..). He played a character like your average Joe, but in this movie, that average Joe happens to be black. Something you don't see in movies at all. But that's not all, his acting in this movie is superb.

Anyways, Tom Cruise played very well as well. He played as the bad guy in this role as a badass, psycho assassin.

And what's best of all? The whole movie takes place in downtown L.A. at night. They've filmed beautiful scenes and added great music to them. The intro reminds alot of Lost in Translation and then it cuts down to the action.

Well, I just want to recommend Collateral to anyone who haven't seen it yet and if you have, I want to hear your opinions on it.

chobopeon

United States7342 Posts

August 11 2004 12:40 GMT

Tom Cruise was the best part of that movie, and I like him a lot more now. Good movie.

tiffany

3664 Posts

August 11 2004 12:43 GMT

imo one of tom cruise's weaker films, albeit he still acted very well in it. jamie foxx did a good job too. it's just i felt that they didn't do a very good job with the climax - so much build up but not a very good resolution. good idea, but the plot wasn't as good as expected

and bourne supremacy wasn't that good...

tiffany

3664 Posts

August 11 2004 12:44 GMT

however, manchurian candidate was awesome. denzel washington is amazing

Eti307

Canada3442 Posts

August 11 2004 12:45 GMT

I agree that the plot could have been a little better but the acting was great. Tom Cruise did an awesome job

It's a good movie

bigMommA

1985 Posts

August 11 2004 12:47 GMT

ya i agree with you about the ending :/

Zoom

1111 Posts

August 11 2004 12:49 GMT

Tom Cruise was so cool in that movie.

chobopeon

United States7342 Posts

August 11 2004 12:49 GMT

I needed a movie with a good bad ass. Spiderman had a woman as the hero, and Will Smith was your average "everyone doubts him, but what he says is exactly what will happen" guy, not a bad ass.

Dirk

United States1339 Posts

August 11 2004 13:13 GMT

I saw this wack ass movie the other day. I mean it was entertaining but damn there funny how they tried to pass this off as a serious intense thriller or some shit. They got tom cruise goin around like he a super villian or something, i kept on thinking he shoulda been in Spider man 2. How he gonna get into a car accident where the car flips like 10 times then get out and walk away like its nothing. Then he gonna get shot in the face or shoulder (wherever the fuck it was) then act unphazed. Then the whole damn movie he showin off his skills as a hitman, doing tumbles on the floor and doing all this pin point shooting and at the end of the movie Jamie Foxx (a damn cab driver) gonna out gun him when they face to face, wtf sense does that make? And also i thought hitmen supposed to be covert like and stealthy, this cat tom cruise just walking into clubs with his guns blazing... shooting people in public. Dont even wear a mask... throwing people out of windows.. going from one killing to the next like its nothing. After the club shooting he drove away in a taxi without a single cruiser following his ass... how realistic is that shit, they had the whole damn police unit up in there and he still went in to kill the guy, and left. I was actually laughing at this. Then at the end of the movie Jamie Foxx walking off with jada, im thinking "where the hell is he going? after all the stuff he did (pulled a gun on an officer) and partly an accomplice to all the kilings...) he definitely gonna have some explaining to do downtown at the police station. But no, just like hollywood wants, he ends the movie having captured jada pinkett's heart...

Rekrul

Korea (South)17174 Posts

August 11 2004 13:18 GMT

#10

Yeah I just saw Collateral the other day, it was really really good. Tom Cruise played the role very very well!

bigMommA

1985 Posts

August 11 2004 13:23 GMT

#11

dirk, jamie foxx didn't end the movie having jada's heart captured, it's left out open for the audience to decide

oh and he got shot in the ear. you can see his ear chipped.

fuqin-suck

United States142 Posts

August 11 2004 13:27 GMT

#12

Tom Cruise was cool. But Jamie Foxx was the better actor in the film, in my opinion.

Also, I'm sure all you Michael Mann fans will agree with me that "Heat" was a better movie (He directed that also).

aSDMA

194 Posts

August 11 2004 13:28 GMT

#13

Not to go off topic or anything (which is why i'll keep this short and simple), or take anything away from the movie, though a friend of mine while in the marines had met (not really MET-met) Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun. He said he was the whiniest, meticulous little brat he's ever seen, I.E. a self-absorbed prima donna.

bigMommA

1985 Posts

August 11 2004 13:28 GMT

#14

have to check Heat out. NYTimes said there hadn't been a realistic action movie since Heat came out or something like that.. thanks for reminding me.

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

August 11 2004 13:29 GMT

#15

On August 11 2004 21:44 tiffany wrote:
however, manchurian candidate was awesome. denzel washington is amazing

I haven't seen that movie, just want to agree; Denzel Washington is GREAT!

bigMommA

1985 Posts

August 11 2004 13:31 GMT

#16

ya, fuqin-suck i agree with you on jamie being the better actor. he played the humanistic role quite well. most movies ive seen it's the black dude that's the cool cat, and white guy as well.. the "whiteboy". But by turning the tables, it's tough to pull it off, and i think jamie foxx did a great job.

Dirk

United States1339 Posts

August 11 2004 14:37 GMT

#17

oh and he got shot in the ear. you can see his ear chipped.

Oh ok, getting shot in the ear isnt anything he'd be in pain about. My bad.

Dirk

United States1339 Posts

August 11 2004 14:38 GMT

#18

Manchurian canidate was good, yes.

Million

United States559 Posts

August 11 2004 14:46 GMT

#19

I liked the scene where they have hella Korean babes partying ^^ Overall it's just one of those Tom Cruise crowd appeasers, no deeper meaning on the plot, just funny talks, good action and good ol' Tom. I saw the Manchurian Canidate the other day also, I guess if you were to ask me to rate the two films I would pick the Manchurian Canidate. At first I thought about the title I thought it had something to do with China (Manchuria) get it? Hahah...

STIMEY d okgm fish

Canada6140 Posts

August 11 2004 14:47 GMT

#20

wtf manchurian canidate was total crap on a stick despite the good acting and the subject matter it was somehow totally boring from start to finish. u always knew what would happen next, except it just hasnt happened yet. freakin unwatchable.. no character development, no story, no surprise, no plot!

spoilers warning:
a guy has weird dreams about how he was brainwashed in desert storm. then he finds out it was true. then he finds out he is brainwashed too but the other brainwashed guy lets him kill the brainwashed guys instead and then the fbi takes him away and busts the bad brainwashing guys. wtf.

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