lunedì 12 gennaio 2015

Collateral

The 2004 movie where Jamie Foxx is Max, a taxi driver and a good man. One night he happens to drive Vincent and everything changes, because this Vincent is a killer. Now, big plot... ok maybe not, really. Anyway it's not a bad movie, but nothing special. It gets points because Jamie Foxx is really good here, and Tom Cruise as the hitman with grey hair is a surprise: not the hero this time, sorry. Anyway, if you accept the initial plot that a hitman, a professionist who has already killed who knows how many, famous for his work, would hire a cab for the whole night to be taken from one place of killing to the other, and not just that, but also that despite being a professional, he messes up right at the first one. It should have been a clean kill, Max shouldn't have known what was going on, but Vincent shoots the guy right in front of the window so he falls back breaking the glass and landing right on top of Max's cab. If you can accept all this, then it's quite a good movie, actually :-) The actors are good and the action is good too.
I was so sorry when policeman Fanning (Mark Ruffalo) was killed, I yelled at the screen. He was a good cop, it wasn't right! Apparently Felix was played by Javier Bardem, but I admit I had not recognized him.
At the beginning of the film we also see Jason Statham in a very small role without a name, listed in the credits as 'airport man',  and by the way, a scene that was a bit absurd, in  a way, because apparently Vincent goes out of his way to make sure nobody knows him, nobody knows his face, but then he accepted to meet a guy to get the targets' names...?

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