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COPYRIGHT 2004 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
Collateral
15, selected cinemas
I saw the trailer for Collateral a gazillion times in the early summer, and it did a great job of putting me off the movie. Thud. A body drops on to the roof of a parked cab. A terrified Jamie Foxx says, 'You threw him out the window and killed him!' 'No,' says Tom Cruise, and calmly explains that it was the bullets from his gun that killed him, and then he went out the window. Screechy tires. Frenzied cross-cutting. Loud music. Screams. Collateral--coming soon. Yawn.
Not for the first time the geniuses in the trailer department managed to make a rather unusual film look and sound just like every other movie. Collateral has plenty of elements of formula and convention: Michael Mann is a high-style director and he's a tad overfond of LA noir-cool cliches--the neon blur...
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