The best kind of genre filmmaking: It plays by the rules, obeys the traditions and is both familiar and fresh at once.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
As a result of Mann's craftsmanship and concern, Collateral crackles with energy and purpose, a propulsive film with character on its mind and confident men and women on both sides of the camera.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Shake it all up and you get Collateral, a movie with only one conceivable flaw: its disinclination to break new ground, though no one held that against "The Fugitive" more than a decade of Augusts ago.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
This is a rare thriller that's as much character study as sound and fury.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
No crime film in years boasts a cooler vibe than Michael Mann's dazzling Collateral.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Michael Mann's tensely funny and alive Los Angeles night-world thriller, is, in its own twisty way, a very high-stakes buddy movie, yet it doesn't look like one, because it leaps off from a situation more jangled and threatening than we're used to.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
If Collateral is all formula, it's polished to a fine sheen.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
As much a dark, odd couple comedy as it is a quirky, efficient little thriller.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Mann vividly captures the nocturnal pulse of East L.A. in this taut, confined game of cat and mouse. In the homestretch the thrills get too generic and farfetched for their own good. But the first two thirds are a knockout.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Pitched between interludes of anxious intimacy and equally nerve-shredding set pieces, Collateral scores its points with underhand precision.Read Full Review »
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