Collateral (2004)

Michael Mann is a director I’ve never paid that much attention to, though just a casual awareness of his work gives you a good idea about his style. It’s a style that I found worked in Collateral, a film that’s both violent and relatively contemplative. Jamie Foxx got an arguably deserved but ultimately unnecessary Oscar nod for this performance the same year he did Ray (good performance boring movie that one). Also it was refreshing to see Tom Cruse do something so different. Certain aspects of the films end stretched things a little bit, but on the whole I liked it.