Collateral

This guy is clearly something special, I personally don't see it, his face take up the space on the film poster, this was a technique used to make people want to see the film, just because he is obviously in it. His name was so big when this film came out they put his name in the same size as the title, his co-stars name and even the directors name are barely visible just shows a bit of desperation in my opinion.

Now personally I despise Tom Cruise I don't know what it is about him but in none of his films I just can't connect with any of his characters, he just seems to do the same thing over and over again. 

Anyway Collateral a film that stars Tom Cruise along with Jamie Foxx. the film came out in 2004 it was one of the first and major films to be filmed with digital cameras. Directed by Michael Mann he didn't do a bad job in making a thriller, throughout the film the audience has to ask themselves questions, why was this done? What was the purpose of that? All questions a thriller should draw out of the audience. Michael Mann chose to use the Viper Film Stream High-Definition Camera to film many of the scenes of Collateral. The use of a digital camera is clear in some scenes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTSpjUfcKE this scene shows the use of digital camera's if a camera that uses reels was used then they would not have been able to capture it on film as it would have taken too long to get lighting set up to see it. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LyAp5jL6ok This is the trailer. 

Max is a cab driver he picks up Vincent who flashes cash and says he will give Max and attractive sum of money to drive him around to 5 stops, not knowing that Vincent is a hit-man who is killing a person at each stop, once he realises he tries with all his might to get out of his deal with Vincent much to his failure, in order to save the last person he rushes to her rescue and is able to get away from Vincent briefly until they are left face to face with only a door between them, each armed with a hand gun, who will come out on top, a man who never held a gun until that night or a professional who's job it is to kill people? 

The film did ultimately bring success from the box office grossed $24.7 million its opening weekend, ranking number 1 at the box office. 

This scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQWu0gDpO4 is when Max (Foxx) gets pulled over, he is forced to think fast, he is under pressure from Vincent (Cruise) to get rid of them or else he will be forced to kill them. The scene shows that Max is struggling under the pressure he is fumbling around he is trying hard to concentrate, when the officer notices the blood on the front window, you can see the panic set in on Max's face and eyes in particular, we also see Vincent preparing to take over and get the job done his way, but fortunately for the cops they are called away. The officers use their torches, the light comes from them, it can represent that they are the good guys, its ironic they are the only people that would be able to help Max but due to the circumstance he is in he knows that he is endangering their lives and his, the light at the end of the tunnel is fading and Max is left on his own once more with Vincent. The majority of the film is in poorly lit area's giving a dark and cold feel to the film which also adds to atmosphere.