COLLATERAL (2004) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

This is the best movie where Tom Cruise plays a bad guy, and he does it magnificently. "Yo, homie, is that my briefcase?"... 2 to the chest, 1 to the head.

"Bad guy Tom Cruise, am I ready for this?" Ready enough, I'd say. He wasn't exactly a boy scout in 'interview with the Vampire'

"No, I shot him; the bullets and the fall killed him" makes me laugh every time 😂

The character of Vincent is described as a character that blends in. Someone that people don't notice. Studio execs weren't convinced that Tom Cruise could do that as he is "too recognizable." So, to convince the studio that he could, they dressed Tom as a UPS delivery driver, had him make deliveries for a day, and followed him with hidden cameras. Not a single person recognized him. He even had a conversation with a man in a restaurant during his "lunch break" and didn't get recognized. They showed the footage to the studio execs and Tom got the part.

What I loved most about this film was the ending, because Vincent became the victim of his own philosophy. He had talked earlier about the man dying on a train and nobody noticed,-- his nihilist belief that nobody mattered was his own epitaph. Yet at the same time, the experience awakened Max from his complacent routine and he became someone who mattered,.

For me, it's, "and you promise not to tell anyone right?" "Yeah! Yeah!" "Get in the F'ing cab!" makes me laugh every time, that Max really thinks Vincent will fall for that.

This movie and Heat give me this deep feeling of connection between people, in that they're enemies and friends. Like soldiers on opposite sides of a war. Like the coyotes: alone, lost in the urban spiral, but at least they're together. The way your best friend can be a man you used to fight, but when it's over it's over, sitting together as the other dies. It's deeply sad and kind.

"I thought Miles Davis was a basketball player" is the best line from any reaction video I've ever watched. Absolutely classic!

Cas: "Um, why does no one care?" Me: "Because it's LA"

"I thought he really liked his mom." He's a psychopathic assassin, Cassie. People are just things to him. 😂