Top Gun and Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise gave one of his best performances in Michael Mann’s Collateral.
These days, when you think of Tom Cruise, you likely think of him riding motorcycles off of cliffs, as he most recently did in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. While we wait for the next installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, it's a good time to revisit a smaller scale thriller in which he portrays a character even Ethan Hunt would struggle to take down.
Vincent begins the cab ride on the basis that he is simply a business person needing to meet with some associates at five different stops. Max hesitates to stick with a single fare for the night, but Vincent flashes $600 in cash for his services and Max decides to go for it. The night foreshadowed by their early conversation seems easygoing, but a minute after the first stop, a body plummets onto the roof of the cab.
Mann has spoken about the intense preparation Cruise brought in various talks and on the film's behind-the-scenes features. Considering Mann's unusually thorough process, working with an actor as laser-focused as Cruise allowed for a creatively challenging and fruitful environment.
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