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Storyline
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 hes long since forgotten--until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that theyre 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 whos 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 Vincents survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined. |
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The Director
Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including those at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has produced the Academy Awards ceremony twice, first in 1999 with the 72nd annual Academy Awards and second in 2004 with the 77th annual ceremony.
Total Film ranked Mann #28 on their 100 The Greatest Directors Ever and Sight and Sound ranked him #5 on their list of the 10 Best Directors of the Last 25 Years, Entertainment Weekly ranked Mann #8 on their 25 Greatest Active Film Directors list.
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User Reviews
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Collateral [Mann, 2004]
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Película ambientada en Los Angeles, escenario filmográfico donde todo (lo malo) puede ocurrir. Buena dirección, con una historia y personajes relativamente bien logrados, que alcanzan varios puntos de tensión. En particular debido a que los protagonistas son a la vez aliados y antagonistas.
El final de la película es el que muestra mayores deficiencias. Elementos de lovestory acuden para ayudar a uno de los protagonistas a enfrentar al otro. Éste, quien desde el comienzo había tenido un desempeño implacable, comete una serie de errores estratégicos que otorgan ventaja a su rival. Fórmulas ya vistas que van en detrimento del guión y de la credibilidad de los personajes.
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reviewed by santoposmoderno (Filmaster.com) on the 3rd of September 2010
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Decent thriller that delivers the thrills, but it's dragged down by bad dialogue and severe implausibilities. These things come with the genre, of course, but I can only stretch believability so far.