Collateral (2004)
Tom Cruise stars as a cold blooded hitman being driven around LA over the course of one night time by unwitting cabbie Jamie Foxx. Cruise embarks on a series of five ruthless assassinations whilst Foxx tries to work out ways to escape as cop Mark Ruffalo closes in on the trail of death.
Both Foxx and Cruise are excellent here, Cruise in particular is cast against type and is highly effective as the merciless killer. However for me it's director Michael Mann who is the real star of this film, his shooting of night time Los Angeles, both on film and digitally, make the city lights look alternately moody, dangerous and aided by an awesome soundtrack of music from Miles Davis, Paul Oakenfold and Audioslave, supremely stylish and cool.
Loved watching this on Blu-ray, made me long to go back to LA.
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