MOVIE REACTION Collateral (2004) First Time Watching Reaction/Review
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I just want to point out, they didn’t get LUCKY with the traffic stop after the first murder the cops receive a call for shots fired. Fannon requested black and whites to pull up to the first crime scene and the cops that pulled max and vincent were the closest to the scene.
Same with the elevator scene at the hospital it wasn’t chance that Fannon was there he was headed to the morgue to see the bodies of the guys Vincent killed in the alleyway.
A fascinating bit of character is that Vincent is always talking about adapting and improvising, which is why he so admires jazz musicians, but he can't improvise, he can't change his ways, his life, or even how he does hits and this is what gets him killed. When Vincent draws down on Max in the train, he shoots how he always shoots, but Max closes his eyes, effectively improvising in a way that Vincent cannot and by chance, he manages to hit Vincent. If you go back, I think you realize that throughout the entire movie, Vincent has been slowly losing his grip because of PTSD. You can't kill people and evade being killed for so long without it taking a psychological toll. When Vincent kills the club owner, it visibly upsets him because despite everything he's said, Vincent does not want to be the way he is.
To add to this Max once again “Got lucky with the lights” in the last scene the subway lights flicker just before he steps to the side and Vincent shoots dead center 3 rounds into the door where Max WAS just before
Vincent let himself get shot by Max, I think he wanted to die with a friend, instead of alone or fighting an enemy. Max closing his eyes while shooting is not why he was able to kill Vincent.
I think you guys are overthinking the proof. Vincent has military history, the government will be able to ID him even if he has a fake identification. Once Vincent's background lines up with Max's information, Max will be fine.
You said “he’s not your friend” but I would argue looking at Max’s life as it’s shown to us weirdly enough Vincent was probably the closest thing Max had to a friend… Max pointed out his fatal flaw and pushed him to correct that and showed him how to “improvise”… I would argue much like V and Eve in v for vendetta, Vincent set Max free…
One last thing, i don’t even know if Vincent was actually out of ammo at the end… Vincent loses his gun the HK in the car accident, Max takes that gun in pursuit of Vincent. We see the dead security guard at Annie’s job and that’s where Vincent got the stainless s&w… even if he had another mag it wouldn’t fit the gun.
Cruise also played a bad guy in Interview with the Vampire
There are hitmen, but Vincent is a very cinematic example of what they're like. They work for your cartel guys and the mafia, especially in Italy where the mafia is still pretty strong. I've actually read a couple of stories of recent hits in places like Ireland done at the behest of Irish gangs. You also have your mercs who work for Private Military Companies who may do even more private contracts like Vincent, but I haven't read anything about any former American soldiers being caught doing that.
About Vincent cutting the phone line. That was actually the power he cut. Modern integrated phone systems don't use traditional phone lines. They are VoIP systems that run through a central computerized routing hub. Kill power to the hub and the phones go down.
You really should follow this one up with Heat. The two are like spiritual sequels to each other.
oh my god! didn't expect to see this but i'm so happy :) a movie that's in my top 10 for sure
OMG, that joke about only having seen Jada in the slap, was hilarious but took me a second to get it because there was an actual show called The Slap and I was really thinking on that like wait she wasn’t on that show was she
I feel like you guys didn't understand Vincent as a character at all...
Great movie
Cruise wasnt supposed to fall on the chair but he jumped and did and they kept that take.
Also Cruise plays a villain in Interview with a Vampire.
And this is the only movie I was rooting for the villain all the time. Cruise played so f ing good in this.
Btw Vincent "bled out" to fast when he died. He wouldnt Die that quick. I think he survived and got off.
Thats also why people were screaming for Collateral 2 after this.
collateral 2 wouldn't make any sense because him dying in the subway referencing what he said at the beginning is the "whole point" of the movie! So Vincent surviving would compelelty ruin the movie
@@clauu9370 yes you are completely correct. Whatever your view is, is the correct one.
@@ImperialMJG it's not a point of view...it's the plot of the movie, it's the whole storyline. How Vincent's whole nihilistic "I'm indifferent" in the end is subsumed by the most human desire: affirmation that he existed on earth among and alongside others, after everything.
This whole movie is about loneliness, solitude, about being lost and forgotten in big cities even among countless of humans. And that is why the whole subway story is so important and why it is important for Vince to die the same exact way and question whether anyone will even notice that he's dead.
Like ofc you can interpret the movie however you want but there are some things like the ending and his death that in my opinion should not be changed and I don't think Michael Mann would change it either. Because that would just the movie itself
It takes less than five minutes to die from a wound like that without intervention. He'd be unconscious in less than 2. Unless that old lady is a heart surgeon with a full kit, pretty sure he's dead.
@@BlackDerek exactly
collateral 👁👄👁 one of my favorites!.
If you're into Iranian cinema, i'll suggest 'A Separation'. It's one of the best written film of all time
Cruise is "the bad guy" in Interview With The Vampire, though looking at the Cruise-universe, it's more fun to watch his movies imagining him as the bad guy in ALL of them.