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''Collateral'' is a 2004 American neo-noir crime thriller directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie. It stars Tom Cruise cast against type as a contract killer and Jamie Foxx as a taxi driver who finds himself his hostage during an evening of the hitman's work. The film also features Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo. Foxx and Cruise's performances were widely praised, with Foxx being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. ==Plot== On January 24, 2004, friendly Los Angeles cab driver Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) is working to earn enough to start his own limousine business. One of this evening's fares is U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrell (Jada Pinkett Smith). On the drive to her office, they strike up a conversation as a result of a bet on what route will get her downtown the fastest. She takes a liking to Max and leaves him with her business card. Max's next fare is a businessman named Vincent (Tom Cruise) who exits the building just after Annie entered. Vincent is impressed by Max's skill at navigating the streets of LA along with his cab's cleanliness and offers Max $600 to drive him for the entire night, against regulations. Max reluctantly agrees, as the money is too good to pass up. As Max waits at the first stop, a man falls onto the cab roof from above. Vincent has killed his first of five marks for the night, drug dealer Ramón Ayala, and is forced to reveal himself as a hitman. He coerces a terrified Max into hiding the body in the trunk, cleaning up the car and continuing with their arrangement. Vincent, concerned about Max leaving, leaves him tied to the steering wheel in an alley, as he goes to kill a defense attorney named Sylvester Clarke. Max sounds his horn and flashes his lights, attracting the attention of a group of young men whom he asks for help, but rather than trying to help him, one of the thugs takes Max's wallet and Vincent's briefcase. However, Vincent returns and kills him and his friend, much to Max's horror. At a gas station, Vincent tells Max they're ahead of schedule and offers to buy him a drink at a jazz club he likes. The club owner and trumpet player Daniel Baker (Barry Shabaka Henley) turns out to be Vincent's third mark and, after the club closes for the night, Vincent kills him in front of Max who had thought they were there just to share a drink and a conversation about jazz music. Max tells Vincent that he wants out, but Vincent assaults him, threatening to kill him if he refuses to obey. Back at Max's cab, Max's boss, who keeps constantly calling Max over the radio regarding his whereabouts, informs Max that his mother Ida (Irma P. Hall) is trying to reach him. Max tells Vincent that his mother is hospitalized due to an illness and that he visits her every night. Vincent insists Max doesn't break his routine and goes to the hospital with him, pretending to be Max's colleague. Vincent quickly bonds with Ida, who takes a liking to him as he gives her some flowers. Betrayed and upset, Max decides to make a run for it, grabbing Vincent's briefcase on the way out. Vincent quickly gives pursuit over a pedestrian bridge as Max tosses the briefcase onto the freeway. With his target list destroyed, Vincent forces Max to meet drug lord Felix Reyes-Torrena (Javier Bardem) to regain the lost information on his last two marks, threatening to murder Ida otherwise. Posing as Vincent, Max meets with Felix and successfully acquires the information on a USB flash drive. Using the cab's computer, Vincent can see the details of the next target, Korean gangster Peter Lim, who is at a nightclub. Meanwhile, LAPD Detective Ray Fanning (Mark Ruffalo) uncovers the connection between the three victims and reports his finding to FBI Special Agent Frank Pedrosa (Bruce McGill), who identifies the targets as witnesses in a federal grand jury indicting Felix for the following day. In retaliation, Felix has hired Vincent to kill all five key witnesses. Pedrosa assembles a force to secure witness Lim and converges on the crowded nightclub simultaneously with Vincent, who in turn is being followed by Felix's men. Vincent manages to kill all of Lim's bodyguards, Felix's hitmen and Lim himself, before exiting the club amidst the chaos. Fanning rescues Max and smuggles him outside, but is shot and killed by Vincent, who beckons Max back into the cab. Following their getaway, the two start trading personal insults and criticisms. Vincent mocks Max for his lack of ambition, while Max attempts to shame Vincent for caring nothing for human life. This escalates into an argument that prompts Max into deliberately crashing the cab. However, both survive and Vincent escapes. A police officer arrives at the wreck to help, ultimately noticing Ayala's corpse in the trunk and starts to arrest Max, who at first surrenders, relieved that all is over, but then spots Annie's profile on Vincent's computer and realizes that she is Vincent's final target. He overpowers the policeman and takes Vincent's gun before running off to try to warn Annie before Vincent finds her. A tense hunt ensues as Annie is trapped in the office but Max manages to get to her, saving her just in time by wounding Vincent, allowing them to escape on foot. While being pursued by Vincent, Max and Annie attempt to elude him by boarding a metro rail train, but they end up cornered. Boxed in and left with no other option, Max makes his last stand. As they fire blindly at each other, Max mortally wounds Vincent in the dramatic shootout. Vincent, out of ammunition, slumps into a seat and slowly dies as he repeats an anecdote heard earlier in the film about a man who died on a train and went unnoticed for six hours. Safe at last, Max and Annie get off at the next station, in the dawn of a new day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Collateral (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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