Collateral

Collateral was directed by Michael Mann in 2004 and stars Tom Cruise and Jamie Fox. Collateral is about an innocent and funny taxi driver who happens to pick up this hit man (Tom Cruise) who is unknown to him. The taxi driver (Jamie Fox) is then forced to drive this insane man around to locations where he wishes to kill. The police have no idea that the taxi driver is innocent but know that the hit man is driving around in a taxi, so the police decide to kill the taxi driver to pin the crimes on him. This then allows the hit man to escape freely unknown to the cops.

Collateral was Mann’s first feature film to shot with mostly high definition camera. Before Russell Crowe became interested in the film, the film received no publicity and was unknown. Crowe brought Mann onside however, Crowe then eventually left and the movie was in the hands of Mann. Mann then went straight to Tom Cruise to see if he would play the main man in the film…the ‘Hit Man’. He agreed and the movie became a great success, it remained in the cinema for 14 weeks and millions.