This block will stay here, I am going to leave this post here and then change out the movie plot details below. This page will get outdated as far as posts go, but will have a new movie each week (or at least I am going to try and do one a week). You can stream older movies on places like Fandago but they don’t have all the titles and some are really hard to find. You could go to the library and get the DVD and watch these older movies but then you run the risk of the copy being scratched and well not working that’s what happens when you lend things out to anybody. So yeah this change, I may update the date on the post so that you will be able to see when I have a new movie to watch.
Collateral
Max Durocher is a Los Angeles cab driver trying to save his earnings and start his own limousine business. One of the evening’s fares is federal prosecutor Annie Farrell, who works for the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. They strike up a conversation and Annie gives Max her business card. Max’s next fare is Vincent, who tells Max that he is in Los Angeles for one night to complete a real estate deal and engages Max for the night to drive him to a series of meetings. As Max waits at the first stop, a corpse falls onto his car. Vincent reveals himself to be a hitman. He forces Max to hide the body in the trunk and continue driving. LAPD Detective Ray Fanning arrives where Vincent made the kill, revealing the victim to be a police informant.
At the second stop, Vincent restrains Max’s hands to the steering wheel. While Vincent is away, Max tries to use the horn to signal for help. Four men come around to the car to rob him and seize Vincent’s briefcase. Vincent returns, shoots two of them dead and retrieves the briefcase.
Vincent orders Max to a jazz club to find his third target, Daniel, who is set to testify against Vincent’s client. Max pleads with Vincent to let Daniel go and Vincent claims he will if Daniel can answer one question about Miles Davis. Despite Daniel giving a seemingly correct answer, Vincent is dissatisfied with it and shoots Daniel in the head.
Learning of Max’s nightly visits to the hospital to see his mother, Vincent insists that Max proceed with the visit. At the hospital, Ida proudly tells Vincent that Max has his own limousine company, revealing Max has been lying to her for her approval. Overwhelmed, Max steals Vincent’s briefcase, which contains prep information on Vincent’s targets, and runs, eventually hurling it onto a freeway where it is destroyed. Fanning arrives at the hospital morgue to see the bodies of criminal lawyer Sylvester Clark, Vincent’s second target, and the two dead robbers, and realizes that it is the work of a hitman. Vincent coerces Max to meet drug lord Felix Reyes-Torrena to re-obtain the information on his final two targets. Max, posing as Vincent, acquires the information and leaves. Reyes-Torrena orders his men to kill “Vincent” if he does not complete the job.
Max goes with Vincent to a nightclub, seeking the next target, Peter Lim. Fanning seeks a connection between the three victims and visits FBI agent Frank Pedrosa, who identifies the victims as witnesses in a federal grand jury which will indict Reyes-Torrena the following day. Pedrosa sees FBI surveillance of Max entering and leaving Reyes-Torrena’s bar, concludes that Max is the hitman and orders the FBI agents to protect Lim. At the nightclub, Vincent blends in with the drunk and dancing crowd, then kills Reyes-Torrena’s hitmen, Lim, and his bodyguards. Fanning rescues Max and smuggles him outside, but Vincent fatally shoots Fanning and coerces Max back into the cab.
Following their getaway, Max and Vincent get into an argument, with Max repeating Vincent’s nihilistic rhetoric about the value of human life. The argument eventually culminates in Max deliberately crashing the cab, attempting to kill Vincent, but it instead only wounds him. Vincent escapes, but a police officer tries to arrest Max after seeing the corpse in the trunk. Max notices Vincent’s open laptop, which reveals that his final target is Annie. Max overpowers the police officer, takes his gun and rushes toward Annie’s office building.
Stealing a bystander’s phone, Max calls Annie to warn her and urge her to call 9-1-1, while learning Annie was prosecuting against Reyes-Torrena and every target was part of her team. Vincent arms himself with a gun from a security guard and corners Annie, but he is shot and wounded by Max, who escapes with Annie on foot. Vincent pursues the pair onto a metro rail train. Cornered on the train, Max engages Vincent in a shootout, blindly firing at one another through the carriages. Vincent attempts to reload his gun, but realizes he is fatally wounded with a bullet to the abdomen, and collapses into a seat. Max and Annie get off the train, whilst Vincent’s dead body remains riding alone.
Author: admin
Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.