20 Things You Somehow Missed In Collateral

How much do you remember about Michael Mann's neo-noir classic?

[offlineraided]

Collateral was one of those rare gems when you see major movie stars playing roles they normally wouldnt appear as. Tom Cruise as a villain was great

[AirChatwin]

20 things you somehow missed in Collateral……proceeds to list a ton of things that aren’t in the movie so how could they possibly be missed? Surely this should have been 20 things you didn’t know about Collateral?

[czguy]

2004 was a RIDICULOUS year for film! Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Shaun of The Dead, Downfall, Kill Bill Vol 2, Nightwatch, Hotel Rwanda, Layer Cake, Undertow, A Very Long Engagement, Spiderman 2, Shrek 2, Ray, Anchorman, Sideways, Before Sunset, Garden State, Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2046, Kung Fu Hustle, House of Flying Daggers, Nobody Knows, Bad Education, Mysterious Skin, Passion of The Christ, The Terminal, The Aviator, Dead Man's Shoes, Finding Neverland, I Heart Huckabees, Saw, I Robot, Million Dollar Baby, The Woodsman, The Aviator, Dodgeball, Dawn of The Dead, Saw, Closer, The Incredibles, A Home At The End of The World, The Notebook, Howl's Moving Castle, The Assassination of RIchard Nixon, Primer, Vera Drake, The Machinist, Mean Creek, Beyond The Sea, Ocean's 12, 13 Going On 30, The Girl Next Door, National Treasure, Team America World Police, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Man On Fire, and The fricking Prisoner of Azkaban. Even the misses were pretty good like Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow, Van Helsing, Alien Vs Predator, Alexander, Along Came Polly, Meet The Fockers and Alfie. Yet somehow Crash won for Best Picture? FOR SHAME!

[thegray]

The song in the club scene, Ready Steady Go by Paul Oakenfold, was also used in the Bourne Identity in the car chase. It's been on my playlist for 10 years.

[jozipf.alonzo]

"Somehow" these things *not* actually in the movie were missed. Amazing!

[Dowdhardware]

I've never actually noticed the final shoot out. There's bullet holes in the train door - 2 to the chest and 1 to the head. The door stopped it

[plissken]

The one flaw I always notice in this movie happens at the beginning of the "Yo homie. Is that my briefcase?" scene. When that "homie" dude arrives in the alley to rob Max who is tied to the wheel of his cab, he shows up with 4 or 5 other accomplices. By the time Vincent returns to the alley and kills him, there is just him ( "homie") and one other accomplice. What happened to the other two or three of them?

[agxec]

Collateral and Heat are some of the best movies ever made. Both made by Michael Mann.
The inspiration for future directors like Christopher Nolan (by his own admission).

[scottmackenzie]

I say Collateral is Cruise's third time playing a villain. He was definitely the villain in one of his earliest roles in TAPS.

[NE-lutn]

I'm sick of these WhatCulture people taking the findings, ideas, and theories that they find on the internet and presenting them as their own.

Side note: Collateral is NOT Michael Mann's opus. Heat is. And that's not a knock on Collateral.

[Juice]

This has been me and one of my friend’s favorite flick for like 20 years now.
In video games we like to tag enemies the same way lol (2 to the heart, 1 to the head)

[amanitaylor]

Tom Cruise also played a villain in, "Taps".

[SeanTheProducer_YT]

I've mentioned Number 3 to people for years... but there's more to it than what's in this video.
Yes, Vincent's perfectly dead-center shooting results in him hitting the metal frame of the subway door... but Max's unfamiliarity with handling a firearm is what allows him to fatally wound Vincent.
When Max steps out from hiding to shoot at Vincent, he actually closes his eyes before pulling the trigger. And then while he is shooting the pistol, he's not only firing (literally) blindly... he's also waving the pistol around in a circle as he fires. This causes one of his bullets to miss the metal frame of the subway door, and hit Vincent in the torso.
So Max's inability to correctly fire a pistol actually causes him to win the gunfight.

[LD-qjte]

I was in San Diego one night coming back from a club and saw a coyote running down the middle of the street exactly like that

[georgeprchal]

John Wick, playing Hitman on Rookie.
Vincent, playing Hitman on Professional.

[britishagent]

If something wasn't in the released film (like behind the scenes changes) then it how can it be missed !!

[kludgedude]

If Vincent didn’t select the same taxi driver his target just used!!!

[joeloberholster]

Only ever watched this one once, but I really liked it.

[joesatchton]

You didn't mention the urban street appearance of the coyote/wolf, which I recall was very much unscripted...?

[rickhoulton]

I believe Tom Cruise trained with the SAS for the quick draw shooting from the hip scene.