Synthaholic
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I like Michael Mann's directing very much in that movie. It has a look and a style and a hue. He balances out odd camera shots/angles with the repeated static taxi shot of Foxx and Cruise talking. He also leaves in obvious dialogue screw-ups by Foxx where he doesn't say his lines correctly. It comes across not as mistakes, but frantic and nervous behaviour.Collateral is a really good movie. And I like nearly all Tom Cruise movies. He has an eye for what he can turn into a good movie, and has the resources to make it happen.
I liked Collateral as well. I was pleasantly surprised by both Cruise and Foxx.
I have liked a lot of Mann's movies, despite hating Miami Vice in the 1980s.