"I do this for a living" is such a great example of economy of dialogue when things are coming quickly to a head. All at once it says: "You are out of your league" "You should not have got in the way of my work" "Don't expect me to hesitate or show mercy" "This is not personal" "This is not about what I want"
Seems to me it's really only actually saying "you are out of your league," and the rest of that is you projecting onto the character. Vincent always kills the taxi driver after these hits. So your second translation isn't something he would've actually criticized Max for doing, the third would've been a vacuous and unnecessary sentiment, the fourth is cliched nonsense because having his livelihood imperiled by failing a hit was definitely personal for him, and the fifth is just naive of you to think Vincent wasn't in this line of work solely for himself.
@@CognizantCheddarno, he's right. It can be interpreted as different things because, to me, the only possible thing he means with it is: 'I have to kill her. I pay the bills with this. It's my job.' He has 0 need to use words to tell Max how much better of a shooter he is. He already showed that to Max without even trying. If Vincent saw Max as a threat or target, his jaw wouldn't have been soaked with blood because he would've immediately fired at Max after seeing him in the office Anne was hiding.
@@CognizantCheddarYou’ve made assumptions as well. It was briefly mentioned that there was an MO of killing taxi drivers after other murders. Well, they never specified that it was Vincent in those instances, otherwise they’d be looking for a serial killer. Vincent even mentions, he hates LA, why would he spend more time than necessary there? It’s only after Max displays his competence at getting him from A to B quickly and efficiently, that Vincent, who is known to improvise, offers him a choice to chauffeur the night. He only takes Max hostage AFTER the fat angelino takes a fall in the alley. Sounds like you’ve spent too much time on Reddit and sounds like I’ve spent too much time watching this movie like an addict. Anything else is just projecting assumptions.
@@edinm123 My comment doesn't actually say anything about the verbatim line, because yes, it's simple and obvious meaning doesn't need to be imagined as having multiple alternative meanings. My whole comment is about disputing the imagined meanings, not the verbatim meaning. 😑
The fact that Max is visibly saddened after his death is part of the extreme brilliance of his character. Enigmatic. Charismatic and utterly captivating. His affect on Max and his life was monumental from a few hours. What a brilliant film. Not many like it anymore.
Sometimes its how our bodies program themselves.. i sleep on a risky ride to home everyday where if i lose grip i can very easily get flung from my sit at 30 km/h or more speed.. but my hands became conditioned to keep latching on to the handle bars and my body to sit up straight..my body also got conditioned to wake me up asap if my man grip gets loosened. Body does what its trained to do.
The most ironic part of this is the shoot part and it's something I never noticed till someone pointed it out to me. Vincent kept banging on about " overcome and adapt" to your surroundings. We see this happen alot. However when both max and Vincent are firing at each other, Vincent is still using his Mozambique firing drill going for the chest and head but only hitting the door, but max is shooting through the glass and hits vincent. Max adapted to the situation yet Vincent stuck with his training. His final mistake. Great climax, similar to heat when Al pacino clocks De Niro a split second from the air port lights. One of my favourite films.
Tom Hanks once said to a classroom of students, "You cannot be artificial. You must rise, hit your marks, and speak the truth, regardless of the lines, the circumstances, or the emotions involved. The goal is not to fake it but to authentically recreate that individual's essence." Cruise excels in this role because he dedicates himself entirely to the performance, ensuring that what we see reflects the truth about his character. That's the mark of a great actor.
Wonder if Hanks thought about that when he visited Epstein Island several times. Have zero respect for him. His son tells a very informative interview about his dad. And what he's involved in.
Max taking off his glasses is nice symbolism. He did it before when he realized what his situation was when talking to Felix, and that if he didn't act he would die. It's seeing the truth. Him doing it again after Vincent asked him if anyone would notice a man dead was a nod that he realized Vincent was right about some things and he was going to act differently in the future.
Too many people completely miss the DEPTH of this movie. There's virtually no end to the nuances of Collateral. Every time I watch this movie I catch something new I missed the last time I saw it. For those who think: oh, it's a hit man and a cab driver, and that's all you think there is to it, you are missing out.
@@ajc1482 hidden meaning no. Nuance and Philosophy yes. There is a continual back and forth about how one approaches living life. Also there is discussion on the value of life. Cruise's character talks about the genocide in Rwanda that nobody cared about including the cabbie, but gets bent out of shape over one person getting killed. Cruise's character call's BS on the Cabbie for all talk and no action about his career and life choices and how he has made excuses his whole life for not accomplishing anything his whole life. Which is quite common in America, particularly in certain demographics in America. In fact this movie is not just about a hitman and a cabbie. Its about opposing views on the value of life and living it.
Absolutely fantastic movie. Leaning into the particular asesthetics of HD at the time, rather than trying to make it look like something else. The incredible compositions that never look forced (eg - Cruise reflected in the window looking at Foxx while they're sitting across from each other, so you get both of their reactions). Foxx and Cruise feeding off each other throughout the film. Both characters trapped in their ideas of what's possible and what their work is. There's so much going on in the film.
The door didn't save Max. You can see that Vincent's rounds went through the door, and it wouldn't be thick enough to stop a round anyway. What saved Max was he stepped to his right when the lights flickered, and Vincent, in the dark, shot where he last saw Max. Just goes to show that sometimes it's just luck and taking a step to one side that can save you in a gunfight.
I've also seen it stated that Vincent dropped the magazine because it didn't fit. He dropped it because the practiced motion of reloading was interrupted by him realizing he'd been mortally wounded.
@@The_Lucent_ArchangelNo, those are definitely S&W mags, and still loaded. He either was losing motor function from shock, or (more likely) realized he was fatally wounded and there was no further point in trying to kill them.
It helped that due to a complete lack of training, he was firing one handed and therefore to the right and therefore his rounds went through the window instead of impacting the metal portion of the door.
Why would Vincent’s shots hit the door? Was it because Max moved to the right and Vincent just naturally moved his aim there not thinking (because of reflexes) that it won’t do any good because he’s shooting at metal whereas Max’s widespread shots at least will go through the glass?
That makese sense. Saw this film for the first time yesterday, loved it but thought it was total BS that Max who's probably never held a gun before managed to kill Vincent whilst Vincent, a trained killer completely missed
this is the perfect encapsulation of Max's and Vincent's mentality. Max might not be the best at what he does put he puts meaning behind his actions, he puts passion in it. Vincent just finds everything routine and didn't think about this particular situation. he didn't adapt. he didn't improvise. Max did, constantly, throughout the events of the movie.
It's all Cortez's fault, if he hadn't fallen out of the window, Max's cab wouldn't have been wrecked. 😅 I'm assuming Anne had her cellphone with her to get a cab, since his stolen phone was out of battery. 😂
@@danieldickson8591There's a scene in John Wayne's last movie, The Shootist, where he says something along the lines of no matter how good you are, all it takes is for some SOB to get lucky.
God this ending scene just one of the greatest ending scenes ever seen in a movie. It just so deep and layered and performances from everyone sublime and incredible direction.
This is one of my favorite movies and part of the reason is because this feels like a modern take on the classic good vs. evil. Tom is the uncaring pessimist who does his job because he doesn't value life and thinks people are insignificant. Jamie is the opposite, such a good guy, he will stop and patiently wait for a wild coyote to cross the road. That is one thing I like about this ending. We have to guys, separated by a door, almost as if separated by their own essence as people, with a chance to kill the other guy. Good triumphs over evil, by luck it seems, but I like to think of it as almost a cosmic force or something divine saving Jamie and making him come out as the victor because even in real life, good needs to triumph over evil.
0:25 We see the astonishment in his eyes when he involuntarily drops his full magazine. It certainly never happened to him with the experience he acquired during his career as a killer. This indicates that it is finished.
After this incident, Max studied so hard, he became a scientist at Oscorp to benefit humanity, but an unfortunate accident turned him into Electro... My bad
And then after the events of Spider-Man No Way Home where he was cured, he wound up in the wrong timeline on his journey back to his own universe. He woke up in the old west and they called him Django.
Absolutely unbelievable musical score, when Vincent passes at the moment when string instrument plays (I believe is a Cello), haunting! Also wondering if Vincent had his pistol if he would have instinctively finished his contract? He was clearly reaching for his spare mag when he was out of bullets or knowing he was going to die allowed them to live, probably the lone act of humanity he’s ever had!
It's the most subtle thing about the whole film. Vincent kept banging on about adapting to the environment, a philosophy max adapts and pulls himself out of his comfort zone. Yet it's vencent downfall in this scene. Vincent uses his Mozambique shooting drill of chest and head shots and you see it only hits the door. Whereas max fires into the glass and hits vincent.
When Tom Cruises pulls his back up clip, he drops it; that’s all you need to see, it tells you everything without showing you anything, the genius of Manns film making skills
But he didn't, because he did not have one. The clip you see dropping is the one he released from the gun. If you notice there was never a clip in his hand. He reached for it and his hand is empty and he looks down in disbelief. His desperation is the fact that he is out of ammo. The clip falling from the gun and hitting the ground is the symbolism that this is the end. You can tell this by looking closely at the clip on the ground. It is empty indicating it is the one he just released and not the one he dropped. If it was his spare clip that he just dropped it would have been full and it would not have bounced.
@@atw9913 you are very mistaken on what you posted; first off, you see the empty mag clearly discarded, two you see the replacement mag is loaded when it hits the ground, and three, you see a machine like killer, who does everything perfectly, makes a bumble: Mann shows you in that moment that he was finished. Btw look up the definition of Collateral, the movie makes so much sense
@@haroldscotclark7394 Go watch it again, slow it down if you need to. The mag on the ground is empty, there was never a mag in his hand. He reached for another but he was out.
@@haroldscotclark7394 Because if he did drop a full mag he had plenty of time to pick it up. We also would have seen 2 mags on the ground, but there is only 1. Because the only mag he had was the empty one in the gun.
3:06 Has to be one of my favourite, slowly zoomed shot's of the film lasting about nine seconds or so along with the requiem music and haunting, primal like singing of the woman, one of the films best tracks along with Ready Steady Go! by Paul Oakenfold (though that last track wasn't made for the film, it was perfect for the club scene and time period in general) I mean, everything Vincent had ever done, the pointless ending of other people's lives, his nihilistic attitude towards life (the nihilism I can understand as I can relate to that) his Mozambique shooting style and skills, all of that and in the end it all led up to him dying on the MTA which is what he told Max earlier on in the cab about another guy during laps on the MTA and no one noticing his death. A very poignant scene and film in general, such a fantastic film. 2004 really was a different time period and this film really proves it was a product of it's time. I really think its Tom Cruise's best work and he wish he had done more like this instead of playing the hero or good guy type all the time.
Chigurgh was damn near non-human. Vincent had emotions, vulnerabilities, and the willingness to bend his own rules and show mercy on rare occasions. He may have been a sociopath but didn't kill for pleasure. Chigurgh is just a straight up psychopathic serial killer who sometimes gets paid for the people he kills. He makes Vincent look well-adjusted and normal.
cruise' best performance. this attitude was authentic- that he knows best... ethos may be different... maybe... but attitude is Tom's own... why it was so good
The second look on the seat "So this is where I'll die." He knew it. The way he saw others died. His last words "You think anybody will notice?", as he probably thought whenever he left the bodies of the people he assassinated. Subtle acting at it's finest.
When I was a kid I used to laugh my but off when they didn't even hide the ramp in front of a car before they did the colision and flying car through the air stunt on TV shows. Today it's the dying man who doesn't fall over while sitting down just for a better camera angle. I wish one producer would TRY to get everything correct and believable while making a movie. What a prize that would be.
I mean honestly, you're not the kind of person people make movies for. People make documentaries for realism. People make movies to capture people with an escape from reality. Yes, a lot of reality is employed to keep some of it grounded, but the point is for it to have style, excitement, and in the midst of all that, connect with you on a personal level. From your remarks about these little details hardly anyone notices and would rarely break their immersion even if they did, you're not the kind of person people make movies for.
This movie truly gets better the more you watch it ... The door didn't save Max, Vincent knew he was fatally hit and decided not to kill Max before he died, another thing i noticed is that when the Train releases them Max and Her are later seen walking towards the light both being innocent good people and Vincent is headed into the night
Many comments here about asking how the hell Max get so lucky. I'll explain. Vincent per his professional experience used a shooting technique called a mozambique drill - two bullets at the chest, one to the head to finish target off. Max is unexperienced with the guns, so he improvised by shooting the windows, and strafing to the right side of carriage. And then the lights go out due to the train hitting a powerline intersection. Normally Vincent would have seen where Max is and get him shot, but he didh't, because the lights were out. Bullets hit through carriage door, but never hit home, since Max has strafed, and Vincent was shooting at the point where he last saw Max been. So ironically, we got a shotgun shot that was placed by Mann at the very beginning - remember when Max were jokingly replying to his passengers about his luck with the wagers - "I got lucky with the lights." - means the traffic lights. His luck with the lights saved his and Annie's life.
See that? after the shootout after Vincent realised he is a goner, he looks at Max and his mimics clearly tells : "Well done, after all you had the balls to stand against me and actually succeeded. I underestimated you." I think Vincent was fond of Max in his final moments before death. Annie came over, but never understood what kind of bond Max and Vincent had.
Imaginne kill the guy who save your life before ... this movie have unforgetable dualitues . And Vincent is the best charm and charismatic personification of evil . For shure one of the best movies in all cinematic history . And Cruise is a brilliant actor !!
Love this scene. What he lambasts Max for during the whole movie ends up leading to his own demise. "I do this for a living", to me, is just a final way of saying yet again "Red light, Max!" But instead Max runs through it and wins while Vincent sticks to his usual routine and it gets him killed. Max gets off the train toward chance anew while Vincent's body is stuck there on a loop, destined to repeat itself. Hes become the very thing he taunted Max for being. The location choice of the train and its subtextual/metaphorical power is perfect.
“I do this for a living”, once he was hit he just gave up because. he knew he was going to die and it’s not his job no more, he didn’t kill out of spite or vengeance, it was just a job
ok look. vincent always wanted max to be a better man. unconsiousately. and when he saw max improved to such level he wanted himself to be defeated. because he had nothing. but max had that girl.
I feel for Vincent. Twisted, cold, messed up code. Evil actions that needed some code to justify. And he dies…probably oblivious to how evil he was in life.
Jamie Foxx's character in The Amazing Spider-man 2 and Spiderman: No Way Home was also named Max... coincidence??? Collateral is actually part of the MCU
It's the most subtle ironies of the film. Vincent kept banging on about improvising and adapting. Which max starts to do. But in this shootout, he sticks to his professional Mozambique shooting drill of chest and head shots and only hits the door. Max fires through the glass and hits vincent. He adapted to the situation.
Hi everyone! What grade (out of 10) would you give this video?
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Not a perfect movie, but much better than people remember/give it credit for.
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I wish Tom Cruise does more antagonist roles, he is perfect
Terrific Actor, one of the very top of our generation, if not the top one.
@@deanfirnatine7814 If only he were a better person to go with that talent.
He does it for a living
@@eragonawesomedo you know Tom cruise personally?
He was in "Interview with the vampire".
"I do this for a living" is such a great example of economy of dialogue when things are coming quickly to a head. All at once it says:
"You are out of your league"
"You should not have got in the way of my work"
"Don't expect me to hesitate or show mercy"
"This is not personal"
"This is not about what I want"
excellent observation
Seems to me it's really only actually saying "you are out of your league," and the rest of that is you projecting onto the character.
Vincent always kills the taxi driver after these hits. So your second translation isn't something he would've actually criticized Max for doing, the third would've been a vacuous and unnecessary sentiment, the fourth is cliched nonsense because having his livelihood imperiled by failing a hit was definitely personal for him, and the fifth is just naive of you to think Vincent wasn't in this line of work solely for himself.
@@CognizantCheddarno, he's right. It can be interpreted as different things because, to me, the only possible thing he means with it is:
'I have to kill her. I pay the bills with this. It's my job.'
He has 0 need to use words to tell Max how much better of a shooter he is. He already showed that to Max without even trying.
If Vincent saw Max as a threat or target, his jaw wouldn't have been soaked with blood because he would've immediately fired at Max after seeing him in the office Anne was hiding.
@@CognizantCheddarYou’ve made assumptions as well. It was briefly mentioned that there was an MO of killing taxi drivers after other murders. Well, they never specified that it was Vincent in those instances, otherwise they’d be looking for a serial killer. Vincent even mentions, he hates LA, why would he spend more time than necessary there? It’s only after Max displays his competence at getting him from A to B quickly and efficiently, that Vincent, who is known to improvise, offers him a choice to chauffeur the night. He only takes Max hostage AFTER the fat angelino takes a fall in the alley. Sounds like you’ve spent too much time on Reddit and sounds like I’ve spent too much time watching this movie like an addict. Anything else is just projecting assumptions.
@@edinm123 My comment doesn't actually say anything about the verbatim line, because yes, it's simple and obvious meaning doesn't need to be imagined as having multiple alternative meanings.
My whole comment is about disputing the imagined meanings, not the verbatim meaning. 😑
this film is so so good... one of my favorite Cruise performances ever.
not only Cruises 🙃
@@matej2733 true, but I usually don't like much of Cruises work... this one is A
@@thetomster7625 yea... I know what do you mean....
@@thetomster7625 Same here, it seems the only Tom Cruise movies I like are those when he's playing against the type of characters he usually plays.
@@butchs.4239 very good observation ^^ really him as antagonist, are the good ones... Magnolia also and to some degree Last Samurai
He turns around and looks twice at the seat before he finally sits down. Because he knows he’s never getting up and that’s where he’s gonna die.
now this is good point, sir
He was a wolf circling where he was about to lay down.
You state the obvious.
@@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk Some people need my help.
He had enough life left to finish the job and knew Max emptied his magazine. In the end, he saw death as an out and chose not to kill Max.
The fact that Max is visibly saddened after his death is part of the extreme brilliance of his character. Enigmatic. Charismatic and utterly captivating. His affect on Max and his life was monumental from a few hours. What a brilliant film. Not many like it anymore.
That's the smoothest riding subway I've ever seen. Tom's body didn't fall even when it stopped!
We can always count on Tom Cruise to give a role a certain stability, even when playing a corpse.
Sometimes its how our bodies program themselves.. i sleep on a risky ride to home everyday where if i lose grip i can very easily get flung from my sit at 30 km/h or more speed.. but my hands became conditioned to keep latching on to the handle bars and my body to sit up straight..my body also got conditioned to wake me up asap if my man grip gets loosened. Body does what its trained to do.
@@abirbinhabib7669 Your body needs to be alive to do all these things.
@@4TheRecord you cells don't really die immediately after your soul departs
Acting, plot, writing, scenes, just a fantastic movie.
With a most unforgettably a-lot-to-think-about ending. 👍🏻
The most ironic part of this is the shoot part and it's something I never noticed till someone pointed it out to me. Vincent kept banging on about " overcome and adapt" to your surroundings. We see this happen alot. However when both max and Vincent are firing at each other, Vincent is still using his Mozambique firing drill going for the chest and head but only hitting the door, but max is shooting through the glass and hits vincent. Max adapted to the situation yet Vincent stuck with his training. His final mistake. Great climax, similar to heat when Al pacino clocks De Niro a split second from the air port lights. One of my favourite films.
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Nope Vincent helped Max o become the man he never was
2 in the chest , 1 in the computer
A round is going through that door like nothing in reality lol
Someone also pointed out at the beginning of the film Max says "I got lucky with the lights" subtle hit for the final scene. Great film
Tom Hanks once said to a classroom of students, "You cannot be artificial. You must rise, hit your marks, and speak the truth, regardless of the lines, the circumstances, or the emotions involved. The goal is not to fake it but to authentically recreate that individual's essence." Cruise excels in this role because he dedicates himself entirely to the performance, ensuring that what we see reflects the truth about his character. That's the mark of a great actor.
Little known fact, but he worked as a hitman for 6 months to prepare for this role.
Hanks is a kiddy diddler
Wonder if Hanks thought about that when he visited Epstein Island several times. Have zero respect for him. His son tells a very informative interview about his dad. And what he's involved in.
@@lennybrewster4673 yep I would not take any advice from a edo !!!
@@aaronjackson2720 Many Bothans died to bring us Collateral.
Max taking off his glasses is nice symbolism. He did it before when he realized what his situation was when talking to Felix, and that if he didn't act he would die. It's seeing the truth. Him doing it again after Vincent asked him if anyone would notice a man dead was a nod that he realized Vincent was right about some things and he was going to act differently in the future.
Too many people completely miss the DEPTH of this movie. There's virtually no end to the nuances of Collateral. Every time I watch this movie I catch something new I missed the last time I saw it. For those who think: oh, it's a hit man and a cab driver, and that's all you think there is to it, you are missing out.
Calm down with the jizzathon.... there's no nuance or hidden meaning in this film.
@ajc1482 Whatever you say Mr blind man.
@@ajc1482 😂
Wait. I thought you said jizzfest.
Either way, funny.
When you say depth, what are you referring to ?
The theme(s) ?
@@ajc1482 hidden meaning no. Nuance and Philosophy yes. There is a continual back and forth about how one approaches living life. Also there is discussion on the value of life. Cruise's character talks about the genocide in Rwanda that nobody cared about including the cabbie, but gets bent out of shape over one person getting killed. Cruise's character call's BS on the Cabbie for all talk and no action about his career and life choices and how he has made excuses his whole life for not accomplishing anything his whole life. Which is quite common in America, particularly in certain demographics in America. In fact this movie is not just about a hitman and a cabbie. Its about opposing views on the value of life and living it.
Absolutely fantastic movie. Leaning into the particular asesthetics of HD at the time, rather than trying to make it look like something else. The incredible compositions that never look forced (eg - Cruise reflected in the window looking at Foxx while they're sitting across from each other, so you get both of their reactions). Foxx and Cruise feeding off each other throughout the film. Both characters trapped in their ideas of what's possible and what their work is. There's so much going on in the film.
The door didn't save Max. You can see that Vincent's rounds went through the door, and it wouldn't be thick enough to stop a round anyway. What saved Max was he stepped to his right when the lights flickered, and Vincent, in the dark, shot where he last saw Max. Just goes to show that sometimes it's just luck and taking a step to one side that can save you in a gunfight.
I've also seen it stated that Vincent dropped the magazine because it didn't fit. He dropped it because the practiced motion of reloading was interrupted by him realizing he'd been mortally wounded.
@@The_Lucent_ArchangelNo, those are definitely S&W mags, and still loaded. He either was losing motor function from shock, or (more likely) realized he was fatally wounded and there was no further point in trying to kill them.
Remember that Max said in the start of the movie "I get lucky with the lights", there it is. Lights is the thing that got Max saved.
@@ltwesjanson Clearly an empty magazine, you can see the follower and a loaded magazine wouldn't bounce like that.
Max got off the x, Vincent didn't. Sometimes it's the little things
Something tells me this wouldn't be the last time Jada took a train.
And then blamed her husband for it.
“I outta slap you for this comment” - Will Smith probably
Bahaha g1
Oh you are dirty lmao so dirty don't let will read this or he will slap yo ass through that phone😂
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Nobody makes night movies like Michael Mann.
Public enemies is also one from Michael Mann!
This was a great movie. Tom and Jamie were great in this.
Vince is too used to firing the Mozambique drill, he puts two shots low and one high and they all hit the door. Max improvises and just unloads.
It helped that due to a complete lack of training, he was firing one handed and therefore to the right and therefore his rounds went through the window instead of impacting the metal portion of the door.
Why would Vincent’s shots hit the door? Was it because Max moved to the right and Vincent just naturally moved his aim there not thinking (because of reflexes) that it won’t do any good because he’s shooting at metal whereas Max’s widespread shots at least will go through the glass?
@@September2004yeah, Vincent's reflexes and professionalism got him killed. He even instinctively tries to reload but fails
That makese sense. Saw this film for the first time yesterday, loved it but thought it was total BS that Max who's probably never held a gun before managed to kill Vincent whilst Vincent, a trained killer completely missed
this is the perfect encapsulation of Max's and Vincent's mentality. Max might not be the best at what he does put he puts meaning behind his actions, he puts passion in it. Vincent just finds everything routine and didn't think about this particular situation. he didn't adapt. he didn't improvise. Max did, constantly, throughout the events of the movie.
This and The Last Samurai were not only two of Cruise's best movies, but two of the best movies ever.
Jerry Maguire was pretty good
@@robhill4200rain man too
..... Cocktail .... Classic Cruise
Edge of Tomorrow was great too though
The true irony of this ending is how the cab driver winds up needing a cab ride home.
He probably took an Uber.
Uber didn’t exist back than dude
It's all Cortez's fault, if he hadn't fallen out of the window, Max's cab wouldn't have been wrecked. 😅
I'm assuming Anne had her cellphone with her to get a cab, since his stolen phone was out of battery. 😂
@@stinkyham9050in 2004? Dumbass 😂
“I do this for a living!”
Dying ain’t much of a living
haha I get that reference!
All Vincent's skill and experience, and life or death came down to dumb luck.
@@LoamReaper I'm lookin' for Josey Wales.
@@danieldickson8591There's a scene in John Wayne's last movie, The Shootist, where he says something along the lines of no matter how good you are, all it takes is for some SOB to get lucky.
Said in true Josey Wales style!
One of the greatest scenes in movie history.
Top notch, highly trained assassin. No one could stop him.
Ultimately, he died because he didn’t keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of his mouth.
A great ending to a great film. Brilliant variation on the buddy movie.
Everyone dies but not everyone really lives
He knows if he sits down, he is not getting back up.
God this ending scene just one of the greatest ending scenes ever seen in a movie. It just so deep and layered and performances from everyone sublime and incredible direction.
Another masterpiece from legend Michael Mann!!!!!
Man this film was just incredible Jamie fox and Tom cruise are both top notch actors I hope movies today learn from movies like this one
I seem to recall a critic say this is the third of Michael Mann's LA trilogy (the second was HEAT)
Ok so what’s the first?
@@greganderson6371
Thief
@@gilguisler2215 legend
@@gilguisler2215 THIEF is set in Chicago.
This is one of my favorite movies and part of the reason is because this feels like a modern take on the classic good vs. evil. Tom is the uncaring pessimist who does his job because he doesn't value life and thinks people are insignificant. Jamie is the opposite, such a good guy, he will stop and patiently wait for a wild coyote to cross the road. That is one thing I like about this ending. We have to guys, separated by a door, almost as if separated by their own essence as people, with a chance to kill the other guy. Good triumphs over evil, by luck it seems, but I like to think of it as almost a cosmic force or something divine saving Jamie and making him come out as the victor because even in real life, good needs to triumph over evil.
0:25 We see the astonishment in his eyes when he involuntarily drops his full magazine. It certainly never happened to him with the experience he acquired during his career as a killer. This indicates that it is finished.
1:22 genuinely felt sad for the character, just one night can end someone's life, and the foreshadowing on the beginning of the flim
This role is Tom Cruises finest moment in cinema. He really became the hitman.
Just as Vincent tried to reload, a fresh wave of pain must've hit him so hard that he dropped the magazine. Great acting by Tom Cruise.
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Pretty sure he just ejected it from his handgun 🤷🏻♂️
@@downunderfrown5700 When he got hit, he knew it was over. He was a contract killer not serial. So he let Max live on that principle
@@downunderfrown5700 0:26 - it has bullets in.
It was because of severe injury and losing fine motor skills. He knew when he dropped it that hes done for.
@@jonzie24 it doesn't tho? It has a yellow follower, but no rounds.
After this incident, Max studied so hard, he became a scientist at Oscorp to benefit humanity, but an unfortunate accident turned him into Electro... My bad
I think this is my favourite comment ever. 😂
And then after the events of Spider-Man No Way Home where he was cured, he wound up in the wrong timeline on his journey back to his own universe. He woke up in the old west and they called him Django.
He was just electrician not any scientist
😂😂😂😂
Then he moved to Miami and was a narc for the police with sonny crocket😅
Absolutely unbelievable musical score, when Vincent passes at the moment when string instrument plays (I believe is a Cello), haunting! Also wondering if Vincent had his pistol if he would have instinctively finished his contract? He was clearly reaching for his spare mag when he was out of bullets or knowing he was going to die allowed them to live, probably the lone act of humanity he’s ever had!
"I do this for a living,"
"Dying ain't much of a living, son..." (Josey Wales).
One of the most underrated lines ever
The music for this final scene is quite timeless.
Imagine being an experienced assassin and dying to a cab driver
He looked pissed at himself there at the end as he went to sit down. Like, really, I'm dying on an empty subway to a cabdriver....
It's the most subtle thing about the whole film. Vincent kept banging on about adapting to the environment, a philosophy max adapts and pulls himself out of his comfort zone.
Yet it's vencent downfall in this scene. Vincent uses his Mozambique shooting drill of chest and head shots and you see it only hits the door. Whereas max fires into the glass and hits vincent.
The soundtrack so haunting though, a masterpiece fits well with the ending....
1:28 first scene and last scene. Unreal movie
Vincent just helps Max to be the man he never was
I think Tom's best role. Wow, 16 years ago.
almost 21 years ago (the movie came out in 2004)
20 now..
"you think anyone will notice"
Proves him right
Tom Cruise as an evil scary asshole: Highly believable! In the end he dies and no one cries for him. My kind of Tom Cruise movie!
Legend has it that his dead body is still on the subway lol
Legend has it that you don’t have one original bone in your body. Do better
When Tom Cruises pulls his back up clip, he drops it; that’s all you need to see, it tells you everything without showing you anything, the genius of Manns film making skills
YES! Absolutely!
But he didn't, because he did not have one. The clip you see dropping is the one he released from the gun. If you notice there was never a clip in his hand. He reached for it and his hand is empty and he looks down in disbelief. His desperation is the fact that he is out of ammo. The clip falling from the gun and hitting the ground is the symbolism that this is the end. You can tell this by looking closely at the clip on the ground. It is empty indicating it is the one he just released and not the one he dropped. If it was his spare clip that he just dropped it would have been full and it would not have bounced.
@@atw9913 you are very mistaken on what you posted; first off, you see the empty mag clearly discarded, two you see the replacement mag is loaded when it hits the ground, and three, you see a machine like killer, who does everything perfectly, makes a bumble: Mann shows you in that moment that he was finished.
Btw look up the definition of Collateral, the movie makes so much sense
@@haroldscotclark7394 Go watch it again, slow it down if you need to. The mag on the ground is empty, there was never a mag in his hand. He reached for another but he was out.
@@haroldscotclark7394 Because if he did drop a full mag he had plenty of time to pick it up. We also would have seen 2 mags on the ground, but there is only 1. Because the only mag he had was the empty one in the gun.
3:06 Has to be one of my favourite, slowly zoomed shot's of the film lasting about nine seconds or so along with the requiem music and haunting, primal like singing of the woman, one of the films best tracks along with Ready Steady Go! by Paul Oakenfold (though that last track wasn't made for the film, it was perfect for the club scene and time period in general)
I mean, everything Vincent had ever done, the pointless ending of other people's lives, his nihilistic attitude towards life (the nihilism I can understand as I can relate to that) his Mozambique shooting style and skills, all of that and in the end it all led up to him dying on the MTA which is what he told Max earlier on in the cab about another guy during laps on the MTA and no one noticing his death. A very poignant scene and film in general, such a fantastic film.
2004 really was a different time period and this film really proves it was a product of it's time. I really think its Tom Cruise's best work and he wish he had done more like this instead of playing the hero or good guy type all the time.
Micheal Mann's movies alway have great ending with villian's death, Heat with Neil, Collateral with Vincent and Public enemies with John Dillinger
The end music is brilliant but heck, Michael Mann has nailed it in all his movies.
I'll never forget this movie...
People make a deal about Anton Chigurgh, but Tom Cruise made just as terrifying a villain. At least with anton you had a coin toss.
Agreed, if your name was on Toms paper the toss had already been decided for you.
Chigurh killed anyone he was tasked to kill as well. It’s only the non-targets that he gave the coin toss to.
Chigurgh was damn near non-human. Vincent had emotions, vulnerabilities, and the willingness to bend his own rules and show mercy on rare occasions. He may have been a sociopath but didn't kill for pleasure.
Chigurgh is just a straight up psychopathic serial killer who sometimes gets paid for the people he kills. He makes Vincent look well-adjusted and normal.
@@caleblim6890oh, Chigurh kills anyone who stand in his mission too. Coin toss is just his "hobby", like how cat playing with their prey
cruise' best performance. this attitude was authentic- that he knows best... ethos may be different... maybe... but attitude is Tom's own... why it was so good
My All Time Favorite Tom Cruise Movie
Because imo it's the only Tom Cruise movie where Tom Cruise is not playing Tom Cruise .
The second look on the seat "So this is where I'll die." He knew it. The way he saw others died. His last words "You think anybody will notice?", as he probably thought whenever he left the bodies of the people he assassinated. Subtle acting at it's finest.
The ending of this movie, specifically, is something that will stick in my head forever. This movie was just perfect.
Vincent is definitely the most interesting character in the film. Perhaps the only interesting character. Enjoyed it nonetheless.
When I was a kid I used to laugh my but off when they didn't even hide the ramp in front of a car before they did the colision and flying car through the air stunt on TV shows.
Today it's the dying man who doesn't fall over while sitting down just for a better camera angle. I wish one producer would TRY to get everything correct and believable while making a movie. What a prize that would be.
Maybe rigor mortis set in quicker than we thought
I mean honestly, you're not the kind of person people make movies for. People make documentaries for realism. People make movies to capture people with an escape from reality. Yes, a lot of reality is employed to keep some of it grounded, but the point is for it to have style, excitement, and in the midst of all that, connect with you on a personal level. From your remarks about these little details hardly anyone notices and would rarely break their immersion even if they did, you're not the kind of person people make movies for.
@@hugomendoza5665thank you
he had no desire to kill max when he realized his wound is fatal
What a fantastic film its a 10 cruise at his best
Collateral is Cruise's best work.
This movie truly gets better the more you watch it ... The door didn't save Max, Vincent knew he was fatally hit and decided not to kill Max before he died, another thing i noticed is that when the Train releases them Max and Her are later seen walking towards the light both being innocent good people and Vincent is headed into the night
He was an existentialist💪🏿👏🏿
Very underrated movie for sure
Even though he risked his life and went through hell to save hers, she’s still in love with Tupac. 😆
😂😂😂💀💀 💀
Great movie.
فيلم رائع يدرس فى علم النفس شخصية ماكس وفينسينت ❤
Cruise should embrace the grey, lean into it.
Excelente actuación de Tom Cruise. Jamie Foxx estuvo muy bien también.
Vincent wouldn't of had died , I wish he lived he's a legend
This is the best acting of Tom Cruise's career.
Many comments here about asking how the hell Max get so lucky. I'll explain.
Vincent per his professional experience used a shooting technique called a mozambique drill - two bullets at the chest, one to the head to finish target off. Max is unexperienced with the guns, so he improvised by shooting the windows, and strafing to the right side of carriage. And then the lights go out due to the train hitting a powerline intersection. Normally Vincent would have seen where Max is and get him shot, but he didh't, because the lights were out. Bullets hit through carriage door, but never hit home, since Max has strafed, and Vincent was shooting at the point where he last saw Max been. So ironically, we got a shotgun shot that was placed by Mann at the very beginning - remember when Max were jokingly replying to his passengers about his luck with the wagers - "I got lucky with the lights." - means the traffic lights. His luck with the lights saved his and Annie's life.
See that? after the shootout after Vincent realised he is a goner, he looks at Max and his mimics clearly tells : "Well done, after all you had the balls to stand against me and actually succeeded. I underestimated you." I think Vincent was fond of Max in his final moments before death.
Annie came over, but never understood what kind of bond Max and Vincent had.
Imaginne kill the guy who save your life before ... this movie have unforgetable dualitues .
And Vincent is the best charm and charismatic personification of evil .
For shure one of the best movies in all cinematic history .
And Cruise is a brilliant actor !!
Firing a gun with your eyes closed, PRICELESS!...
He put it in God's hands.
"Heat" began at this metro station and ended at the airport. Michael Mann said it was "quite coincidentally".
Wish Tom Cruise didn't die in this movie. I wish they would have made a Collateral 2.
Love this scene. What he lambasts Max for during the whole movie ends up leading to his own demise. "I do this for a living", to me, is just a final way of saying yet again "Red light, Max!" But instead Max runs through it and wins while Vincent sticks to his usual routine and it gets him killed. Max gets off the train toward chance anew while Vincent's body is stuck there on a loop, destined to repeat itself. Hes become the very thing he taunted Max for being. The location choice of the train and its subtextual/metaphorical power is perfect.
Michael mann is very good at killing the main character in the end in every movie
Brilliant brilliant movie 👍👍👍👍👍
What a masterpiece of film, great movie
He may play the bad guy role more than the good or the man with great charisma from a personal standpoint, I would like to see more of this
Tom Cruise & Jamie Foxx & Jada Pinkett Smith is great actress in that movie collateral 🌹🌹🤍🤍
I believe that’s the same station where de Niro gets off in the beginning of heat
Plot twist: Max was actually a trained assassin and used the taxi driver persona as his cover
probably my most favourite Cruise movie 🎥🤔
This is a true story. I read somewhere that someone in fact was shot in some subway somewhere..
Jamie Fox and Tom Cruise were great. Jada, not so much at all. Even though her role was tiny, the camera gives her WAY WAY too much attention.
“I do this for a living”, once he was hit he just gave up because. he knew he was going to die and it’s not his job no more, he didn’t kill out of spite or vengeance, it was just a job
I feel kind of sad every time i see this scene.. I have always liked Tom in this role. But things had to go this way.
Rough day. Wrong place, wrong time...😢
Cabbie been watching Yellowstone the night before and takes the punter to the train station..
ok look. vincent always wanted max to be a better man. unconsiousately. and when he saw max improved to such level he wanted himself to be defeated. because he had nothing. but max had that girl.
The best of final and soundtrack
The soul of vincent move to max body at the end
I feel for Vincent. Twisted, cold, messed up code. Evil actions that needed some code to justify. And he dies…probably oblivious to how evil he was in life.
he was definitely oblivious
I think he knew what he was. To his eyes, he was just a instrument. so he never gave any sentiment to his actions.
The film cannot reveal the wonderful smell of some seats at MTA for complete picture.
Max: We're almost .....at the next stop
Humans: We all are Max....sooner or later 😢
Jamie Foxx's character in The Amazing Spider-man 2 and Spiderman: No Way Home was also named Max... coincidence???
Collateral is actually part of the MCU
So why does Max get lucky with his shot and Vincent miss?
Vincent, by habit, shot twice at the chest and one at the head. The shots were blocked by the carriage door.
It's the most subtle ironies of the film. Vincent kept banging on about improvising and adapting. Which max starts to do. But in this shootout, he sticks to his professional Mozambique shooting drill of chest and head shots and only hits the door. Max fires through the glass and hits vincent. He adapted to the situation.