First and foremost a continuation of director Michael Mann’s love affair with nocturnal urban landscapes, Collateral centers around a night-shift cabbie (Jamie Foxx) kidnapped by a professional killer (Tom Cruise, callous and funny) and forced to drive him from hit to hit. Fluorescent lighting courses through the movie, set as it is in Los Angeles, and Mann and cinematographer Dion Beebe (Chicago) almost make that garish form of illumination beautiful.
