Collateral

Collateral (2004)

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Jamie Foxx (Max) is a cabbie who picks up pretty Jada Pinkett (Annie) as his fare. They have a nice conversation and she gives him her card. After he drops Annie off, Tom Cruise (Vincent) gets in and offers Max $600 to be his driver for the night. Vincent says that he's in real estate and has to make 5 stops to sign paperwork. Max realizes after the first stop that he is driving Vincent to different locations for Vincent to kill people. Max keeps trying to get out of it, but Vincent keeps catching up to him. Vincent sends Max into a club as Vincent and the police, who have set up surveillance, now suspect Max. Max realizes that Vincent's last victim will be Annie, so Annie tries to get to Annie before Vincent does. Max saves Annie and they run away from Vincent down to the Metro.

Nicole

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of the film when we see Max pull up to the first hit location and Vincent is talking to him in the back; watch closely and in one shot we see that Vincent has his hands below (probably on his knees), but in the following shot we can see his left arm is now up and grabbing onto the glass that separates the driver from the passenger inside a taxi. (00:16:25)

The-Immortal

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Trivia: The film was almost entirely shot in high definition. Director Michael Mann states he did this to capture the night scenes more vividly.

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Suggested correction: The number of movies shot in less-than-HD could be counted on one hand.

I believe it refers to the fact that Collateral is considered to be the first major movie to use a digital camera, not the traditional film support.

Sammo

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Question: In the beginning of the movie, just prior to Vince's introduction to Max, what was Vincent doing in Annie's office building? He actually passes Annie (his 5th target) on the up/down escalators. Why not just kill her first?

Answer: He was likely scoping out the building and determining where specifically Annie worked. He couldn't just kill her in public with people around. He had a systematic plan on how and when each victim would be killed.

raywest

Answer: Plus it sets up the 5th victim surprise.

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