Collateral (2004)
Catch Jada Pinkett-Smith as Annie
Theatrical Release Date: August 6, 2004
Summary:Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long since forgotten--until tonight.
Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived--and five bodies are supposed to fall.
Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral--an expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.
Review:
On paper, the plot for Collateral looks like it could be any one of a hundred summer action flicks -- but onscreen, it's one in a million.
Collateral is not even remotely comical, but there are several very funny scenes with Foxx and Cruise, and Foxx and Pinkett Smith. The writing is razor sharp, witty, and certainly heightened, but it's not over the top. (Max: You just met him once and you killed him like that? Vincent: What -- I should only kill people after I get to know them?)
Collateral is a smart thriller for adults, full of suspense and intrigue. You won't find better bang-bang for your buck.
Jada Pinkett-Smith Movies:
- Collateral (2004)
- Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Kingdom Come (2001)
- Bamboozled (2000)
- Mononoke-hime (1999)
- Return to Paradise (1998)
- Scream 2 (1997)
- Set It Off (1996)
- If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
- The Nutty Professor (1996)
- Tales from the Crypt -- Demon knight (1995)
- A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
- Jason's Lyric (1994)
- The Inkwell (1994)
- Menace II Society (1993)