This may not be Mann’s best (that probably goes to Heat or The Insider), but it is undoubtedly one of the best of 2004.

Full Review | Feb 20, 2024

Tom Cruise is well cast as a coldly efficient professional assassin and Jamie Foxx is excellent as the cabbie who picks unwittingly drives him to his targets in Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller...

Full Review | Aug 19, 2023

Thus, in Collateral, glinting lights, noise, fragmentations and all digital ephemera are key to the existence of digital film as digital film and not an approximation of photochemical film...

Full Review | Jun 13, 2023

A well-made action and suspense film. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Dec 21, 2022

This was not quite Mann enough for me.

Full Review | Oct 21, 2022

You can argue all you want, but I reckon Collateral is Cruise's best ever work. He is at the centre of every scene – and is incredibly impressive throughout.

Full Review | Dec 17, 2021

The film is made largely without urgency, without concreteness, without any apparent awareness of the particular lives people are leading in America today.

Full Review | Feb 15, 2021

Cruise's performance is a fine one, nicely seasoned with just the right touch of piquantness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 17, 2020

...Jamie Foxx manages to steal the show.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 8, 2020

While Cruise was obviously the box office draw for Collateral, it was Foxx who was on a career-high in 2004.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 8, 2020

Collateral holds up despite its more pedestrian elements.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2018

If the final destination's a bit of a disappointment, getting there is a lot of fun.

Full Review | Feb 2, 2018

Cruise lacked the deepdown malevolence required to bring Vincent to life. I wished him dead in the first few minutes he was on the screen -- and for the wrong reasons.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2018

A visually striking film from the unhinged, endlessly creative mind of Michael Mann.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | May 17, 2015

The year's best action thriller with excellent performances from its two leads and Mann's brilliant direction making something as pedestrian as a taxi ride a pulse-pounding thrill ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 18, 2013

Powerful but violent thriller -- not for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

In the homestretch the thrills get too generic and farfetched for their own good. But the first two thirds are a knockout.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Mann takes a predictably clichéd, far-fetched crime yarn and transforms it into a fascinating thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 5, 2010

If anyone is ever to mount an argument for the superiority of video over film, this movie would of necessity be very near to the center of that argument.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 30, 2009

A very superior thriller with excellent direction and utterly top-notch performances...

Full Review | Apr 29, 2009