COLLATERAL is easily one of the best films I've seen this
year. Lean, supple, and hard-boiled as all get out. In his
Entertainment Weekly column, Stephen King said that no one
had made an L.A. film this noir since POINT BLANK. Cruise's
take-no-prisoners performance is one of the reasons why the
movie works so well.
As for the plot, I thought it was rather elegantly worked
out.
*SPOILER ALERT*
Stewart wrote:
1) prosecutors don't get hit in the US, and 2) Cruise already
knew about her. She was the first target, and he had already
visited the building looking for her at the start of the
film. In fact Foxx only met him because he was coming out of
her building after not finding her.
#1 may be true, but that doesn't mean it could never happen.
As for #2, I didn't interpret the film that way. I thought
Cruise was at the building at the beginning of the film to
get the lay of the land and to pick up the card key that
would allow him to come back at night and make the hit when
fewer people were around.
On another subject, I had hoped to be deep into MacDonald's
BLACK MONEY by this point. But I haven't been able to scare
up a copy. No book store in town -- new or used -- has one in
stock, and the library only has a large print edition. Just
how many rare birds are there?
Vince Keenan
www.vincekeenan.com Pop culture, high and low, past and
present. One day at a time.
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