COLLATERAL Clip - "First Kill" (2004) Tom Cruise

-"You promise not to tell anyone?" -"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I promise." -"Get in the fucking car." This is one of the best parts here. So damn funny! 😂🤣

I know everyone sees Tom Cruise as somewhat of a headcase but you cannot deny his craft when it comes to his acting.

Cruise under-rates himself not taking more roles like this. He was SOOO GOOOOD! Michael Mann knows how to make a script have meat on it that actors can chew on. Everyone in this film crushes it, and that's a matter of excellent casting, but also an amazing story.

"No I shot him, the bullets and the fall killed him" I love that line it tells you so much about Vincent's character

My favorite role from Cruise. He killed it. Wish he played more villains.

Max-"Did you kill him?" Vincent-"No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall killed him."

0:23 "I'm not in this for the long haul" drives for 12 years

"you are one of the guys who do instead of talk". Vincent immediately looks through Max' self-illusions

"You promise not to tell anybody right?" "Get in the fucking car" LOL

The attention to detail in this movie are just excellent, like at 2:26 when Vincent jogs up the stairs and has his hand on his handgun to keep it from bouncing. You would only notice this detail if you actually carry a gun often.

This is one of my favorite films. Not generally a Tom Cruise fan, but he nailed the role.

What really got me hooked on this movie was the writing and these two amazing actors giving a master class in psychology and the human ability to lie to ourselves. Outwardly, these two are complete opposites, and while they both have no problem calling out each other’s bs, but their own lives are centred around the lies they’ve created for themselves.

My favourite line: “you promise not to tell anyone right?” 😂

No one could perform better than Tom Cruise with regard to the role as Vincent. I'm serious we need more Vincent.

"How long you been driving?" "12 years." "Really?" Note the look on his face at 0:34 when he says "Really?" He knows Max is just a dreamer. Recall at the end of the movie Vincent says "Because you were never going to do it anyway." when he berates him. Although Vincent is a cold contract killer there's a lot of hard truth in what he says. A lot of people have dreams and say they are going to do this and that but never actually do anything meaningful to make it happen. And then Vincent says to Max "And one day you're old."

$355 per shift in 2004 be sounding pretty good actually

What I liked about this film, the story really, was that it could have been done any time in the last 60 or 70 years - it's story - driven, rather than by setting or period.

In a way, we all respect Vincent. A total PROFESSIONAL and COMPETENT! Excellence always sells.

This was probably one of Tom Cruise's best role.

One of Cruise's best characters. We need a prequel of Vincent's early days 😁