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Collateral 9.15pm beIN Movies Action 2

A COOL thriller crackling with nerve-jangling tension. This cat-and-mousery is high-class entertainment.

Superstar Tom Cruise convinces as Vincent, a pokerfaced, cold-eyed professional killer who jets into town for a night’s work. Jamie Foxx is Max, a happy-go-lucky cab driver, coerced into chauffeuring Vincent around LA on his business trip. Vincent’s task is to murder all the witnesses in a trial that opens the following morning.

It soon dawns on Max that as a witness he is unlikely to survive the night.

He tries to warn the next victim, a fetching young lawyer Annie, alias Jada Pinkett Smith. She flees with Max, pursued by the relentless killer.

Javier Bardem gives a typically polished cameo performance as the mastermind behind the mayhem. Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg and Bruce McGill also impress as cops tracking Vincent’s bloody trail. Good acting all round, realistic violence and the final chase sequence has real tension. Michael Mann directed in 2004 from a taut script by Stuart Beattie.

Time Out said: “I loved it. This cool, elegant piece of precision engineering is as intelligent, engrossing and exciting as you’d expect. The dialogue’s crafted with as much imagination and expertise as the action scenes.”