Collateral

Collateral (2004)

35 corrected entries

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Corrected entry: When Vincent enters Annie's building to kill her, he uses a swipe card to enter the elevator and again to enter the specific floor that she is on. When Max goes in to save Annie, we simply see him in the elevator and then see him helping Annie in her office. But how did Max enter the elevator and Annie's floor without a swipe card of his own?

Correction: You don't need a swipe card to enter the turnstiles where Vincent uses it. You can see at the start of the movie that people can just walk right through them. Also, Vincent doesn't swipe his card to get onto the elevator, he swipes it on the floor where Annie's office is to get to where the offices are. Since Max doesn't go to this floor, he goes to the law library where Annie is, he won't need a swipe card.

Corrected entry: Tom Cruise has on dress shoes at the beginning of the movie only to be wearing loafer style at the very end of the film. Fairly noticeable due to the fact his pants are too short which drew attention to the shoes.

Correction: If you pause the film at anytime during the last half hour, especially during the scene where Cruise is chasing Foxx and Smith or the final scene in the MTA car, you'll see that Cruise is wearing the exact same tie-down shoes that he started the film with.

Corrected entry: When the train leaves, you can see Tom in the window in the front of the second car. Before that they had a huge shoot out, yet the engineer one car forward is unable to hear the shoot out and completes his stops with 30 bullets and a dead guy, not to mention the passengers who didn't seem to care.

Correction: In actuality the gun fight is only about 4-5 shots each person. In the film it is very quick and then its over. Being in a closed booth the sound would have been reduced significantly. The engineer could have assumed (with not seeing the incident as well) it was just a ruckus or something on the tracks as it was so quick. There are a number of loud noises being on a train so might have just assumed it was a loud noise. With regards to the passengers that we see, Tom and Jamie pass the only remaining passengers before the stop where Tom holds his gun out the door to stop Jamie Foxx. In that stop the passengers behind would have likely exited the other cars to avoid any trouble as they had seen the guns being carried.

Lummie

Correction: When Max and Annie leave the train, the time shows Sunday morning after 5am. Guess that's when they filmed the scene.

Corrected entry: When Max comes in the building where Annie works, he shoots the glass in the door. When the glass breaks, the push bar across the door disappears. The push bar would not be attached to the glass but to the door frame.

edbo

Correction: I had to double check this, but the door handles on both doors are attached to the glass, and do not go all the way to the frame on either end. This can be seen when Max first tries to get in the doors, but they are locked.

ZipWin

Corrected entry: In the morgue scene, the coroner unwraps a victim down to his chest to show the detective the single head shot and the "double-tap" in the chest. He then says something about another victim, and the camera angle immediately switches to an overhead shot as they move down to the next gurney. In this overhead shot, you can see all of the victims are still wrapped tightly in the body bag, plastic wrap combo, even the one he just unwrapped.

LAD

Correction: The overhead shot is of the other side of the room, starting with the bald guy they were just talking about, who is still unwrapped.

Kristal

Corrected entry: After the taxi overturns and the policeman notices the dead body in the trunk, he points a Beretta 92F pistol at Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx overpowers the policeman and takes his gun. In the rest of the film, Jamie Foxx does not have a Beretta 92F pistol but another model.

Correction: He doesn't take the policeman's gun, he takes Vincent's.

Corrected entry: When Angelo falls from the window, the advert board on the cab is damaged. Later when Max comes out after meeting Felix and drives towards to the next hit, the advert board is fully intact.

Correction: They fix the top with tape (which can be seen) so that the cab will attract less attention.

Corrected entry: Just before Max flips the taxi, look over his left shoulder. You can plainly see that his seat belt is NOT on; it is fully retracted up in the door frame. He would have most certainly been more bruised up than he was. He had no visible scratches or cuts anywhere on him.

Correction: This just isn't true. Vincent had many visible scratches on his face through until the end of the movie.

Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie in the scene where Max has called Annie to warn her of Vincent's imminent threat to her, Max asks her what floor she is on. She says she is on the 16th floor, in the law library. Max then tells her that Vincent is 2 floors below her, in the corner office. Then, in a following scene where Vincent is in Annie's office and notices that somebody in the building is on the phone, the camera shows a close up of the lit up line and it says "File room, 15th floor".

Correction: Actually, if you look close enough, the phone listing does indeed say "File room, 16th floor", not 15th. No mistake here.

Corrected entry: Max puts the DA's card in his visor. After the car crash, he takes it from his wallet.

Correction: A good bit of time passes between when we see the business card in the visor and that point in the movie. Now given that Vincent knew about the girl's card and knowing how he threatened Max with harm to his mother ealier, wouldn't it be fair to assume that Max could've easily pocketed the card at some point?

Corrected entry: There is no way Vincent could have gotten on the back of Max and Annie's train. They choose the train on the lower platform; after deliberating between the two, Vincent runs for the one on the UPPER platform. And the logistics, not to mention a solid wall, track, and platform, mean he couldn't have jumped from one train to the other.

Correction: No, Max and Annie get on the upper train (the Metro blue line, which is a lighter rail train than the Red line,a subway train, which was below.) The confusion comes from when they went down an escalator. The escalator Max and Annie use is to get down to the floor Vincent ended up at, trying to decide which train, and not the escalator Vincent looks down leading to the Red line subway. Max goes to the blue line in front of Vincent.

It's not possible that Max and Annie would end up on a different platform as Vincent since they all exited the building the same way. I am also very confused as to how Vincent boards the same train! He is standing at the same staircase, which Max and Annie went down, before deciding which train to get on, and eventually decides to not go downstairs and boards the train on the upper level. No way Max and Annie could have ended up a level above Vincent, the follow up to this event indicates Max, Annie and Vincent exited the building the exact same way.

At about 01:46:06 and 01:47:06 the characters are standing at the same point in the metro station; Max and Annie go down the stairs to the left ('M' and arrow down in red sign on the pillar) and Vincent gets the train straight ahead. A scene between the two time stamps has us looking at Max and Annie as they've come down the stairs, and we see a blue 'M' and up arrow on a pillar next to them. Vincent gets on the blue line train whilst Max and Annie are on the red line.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Ruffalo, McGill, and Berg are walking out of the surveillance warehouse to their cars, Berg is caught staring at the camera for a noticeably long period of time. (01:13:10)

Correction: This sort of mistake is generally disallowed, for the fact that when looking towards the camera it is regarded as a "fourth wall" in movies. In many cases characters will look right at the camera to give the perception that it is showing the view from another character's view.

Lummie

Corrected entry: When Vincent chooses between the two trains, he jumps on the outside end of the last car and enters through the rear doors. This would have been impossible since the rear doors on the last car of trains and subways are always locked to make sure that people do not jump out of them onto the tracks.

Correction: Just because a door is supposed to be locked, even if all the time, doesn't mean it is always locked. People don't always do things that they are supposed to, even at work as is this case.

Corrected entry: In the final scenes as Annie and Max disembark the train, the marquee reads "Today is Sunday, June 25, 2004." June 25, 2004 was a Friday.

Good Job!

Correction: The sign says "Jan 25", meaning January. January 25, 2004 was a Sunday.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: When Max and Vincent are at the hospital and have entered the elevator, Vincent is holding the briefcase in his left hand, but the hand/fingers that press the button on the elevator is the left hand/fingers not the right, then the camera cuts to a wider shot and Vincent is lowering his right hand from the button even though he pressed the buttons with his left (the hand holding the briefcase). (Slow motion necessary.) (00:46:40)

The-Immortal

Correction: According to this site's rules, if you have to use slow motion to see something, it's not a valid mistake.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of the film when we see Max pull up to the first hit location and Vincent is talking to him in the back; watch closely and in one shot we see that Vincent has his hands below (probably on his knees), but in the following shot we can see his left arm is now up and grabbing onto the glass that separates the driver from the passenger inside a taxi. (00:16:25)

The-Immortal

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Trivia: The film was almost entirely shot in high definition. Director Michael Mann states he did this to capture the night scenes more vividly.

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Suggested correction: The number of movies shot in less-than-HD could be counted on one hand.

I believe it refers to the fact that Collateral is considered to be the first major movie to use a digital camera, not the traditional film support.

Sammo

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Question: I noticed from the previews that this movie looks very different. What is it? Is it a digital camera that has been used? Or no lighting effects used? The movie really has a "behind the scene" feel.

Kirill Ostapenko

Chosen answer: It was shot with a digital camera. IMDB is a great place to answer questions like this. Go to *Technical Specifications* in the *Other Info* section of the menu on the left hand side of the screen. In an interview in American Cinematographer, Michael Mann said that as far as he was aware, this was one of the first movies to attempt to make a "look" out of digital video rather than trying to make Digital Video look like film. This approach meant the movie could be shot in the low-light scenes of urban desolation Mann wanted - because Digital reacts much better to low light than film. The approximately 20% of the picture that was shot on film was mostly, according to Mann, the portion set in the "Fever" nightclub - because this is the scene with the brightest lighting states, a condition in which Digital Video does not perform as well.

J I Cohen

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