For the month of May we will be watching Michael Mann's Collateral.
Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and produced by Michael Mann, written by Stuart Beattie, and starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. The supporting cast includes Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Javier Bardem, and Bruce McGill. The film follows Max Durocher (Foxx), a Los Angeles cab driver, and his customer, Vincent (Cruise). When offered a high fare for driving to several locations, Max agrees but soon finds himself taken hostage by Vincent who turns out to be a hitman on a contract killing spree.
The film received critical acclaim in particular for the performances of Cruise and Foxx, Mann's direction, and the editing. It currently holds a fresh rating of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert gave it 3.5/4 stars saying this in his review, "Collateral is essentially a long conversation between a killer and a man who fears for his life. Mann punctuates the conversation with what happens at each of the five stops, where he uses detailed character roles and convincing dialogue by writer Stuart Beattie to create, essentially, more short films that could be free-standing. These scenes are so much more interesting than the standard approach...Mann allows dialogue into the kind of movie that many directors now approach as wall-to-wall action. Action gains a lot when it happens to convincing individuals, instead of to off-the-shelf action figures."
We will be meeting Thursday, May 22 at 5:30 pm
Here's the trailer:
Hope to see you there!
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