This article was updated at 7:35 p.m. Can a bad Tom make good? DreamWorks finds out this weekend when “Collateral,” the first film in which Tom Cruise plays a villain, opens at 3,188 theaters.

With Tom Cruise in the limelight once again, it's the ideal time to watch one of his best performances, from the 2004 crime thriller Collateral. Cruise doesn't play many villain roles, but he knocks ...

The not-so-funny thing is that Tom Cruise is a better samurai in "Collateral" than he was in his last movie, in which he actually played a samurai. Cruise is the gray-hued symbol of the universe's ...

Tom Cruise plays the bad guy in Collateral, a new film by director Michael Mann, who employs a creative soundtrack and stunning digital cinematography. Jamie Foxx co-stars as a cab driver caught up in ...

Michael Mann is one of the great American filmmakers. Over the past 40+ years, the director has delivered a number of classic, widely beloved films, including 1995’s Heat and 2004’s Collateral. His ...

This documentary chronicles the making of the film Collateral (2004). We get to see Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx training for their roles, as well as Jada Pinket Smith's Audition. Michael Mann also ...

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His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.