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Tom Cruise has an extraordinary body of work – and a solid bulk of his greatest work have been released by Paramount Pictures. This collection of some of his very best and most successful films runs the gamut of his roles. From the cocky pilot and driver in director daytona beach hotels and resorts Tony Scott's Top Gun and Days of Thunder , to two of the very best science-fiction films of the last 30 years delivered by director Steven Spielberg, Minority Report and War of the Worlds , to finally Cruise's darkest role as the contract killer Vincent in director Michael Mann's excellent Collateral, this collection is a superb sampling of the actor's filmography. With a delightfully low price-point, this collection is highly recommended.
US Rating: Top Gun : PG, Collateral : Rated R for Violence and Language, Minority Report : PG-13 For Violence, Brief Language, Some Sexuality and Drug Content, War of the Worlds : PG-13 For Frightening Sequences of Sci-Fi Violence and Disturbing Images, daytona beach hotels and resorts Days of Thunder : PG-13
Audio : Top Gun : DTS-HD Master Audio English 6.1, English 5.1 Dolby Digital TrueHD, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, Collateral : English 5.1 TDS-HD MA, French 5.1 Dolby Digital Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, Minority Report : English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French daytona beach hotels and resorts 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 2.0 Dolby Digital, War of the Worlds : English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French, Spanish and Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital, Days of Thunder : English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Spanish and French 5.1 (Dolby Digital)
Subtitles : Top Gun : English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese, Collateral : English, English SDH, French, Spanish daytona beach hotels and resorts Portuguese, Minority Report daytona beach hotels and resorts : English, English SDH, French, and Spanish, War of the Worlds : English, English SDH, French, and Spanish, Days of Thunder : English, English SDH, French, Portuguese and Spanish
Maverick (Tom Cruise) is the king of the skies. Confident, cocky, daytona beach hotels and resorts and at times careless, he might just be the best of the best. When Maverick and his co-pilot, Goose (Anthony Edwards) are selected to attend the elite flight school to compete for the coveted title of ' Top Gun ', the competitive environment and high-octane action lead to trouble. Maverick falls for Charlie (Kelly McGillis) – the civilian instructor, engages in a taut rivalry with another fighter pilot, Iceman, and happily flaunts authority.
Top Gun helped launch Tom Cruise's stellar career and with good reason. Cool headed, handsome, charming, and easily likeable, Cruise – despite being shorter than the traditional leading man – had everything daytona beach hotels and resorts that the big screen and alike audiences cheerfully absorb. And there's a seriousness about Cruise's performance – even amongst the predictable daytona beach hotels and resorts 'rah-rah' and teed up fist pumping – that serves as a presage for some of his finer performances in works like Magnolia and Minority Report .
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Top Gun , beyond all the testosterone aggression and fighter daytona beach hotels and resorts pilot shenanigans, was a love story between Cruise's Maverick and McGillis' Charlie. There is chemistry between them but it is slight. The heavy use of the Berlin ballad "Take my Breath Away" hammered home the love element of the story just as Kenny Loggins' "Highway to the Danger Zone" hammered home the jet action. It's all a little clumsy but these two songs in particular helped define the Top Gun experience.
So does it hold up today? Well, yes and no. The plot is straightforward and uncomplicated, staged for the audience to root for the cocky protagonists and filled with the kind of Americana that action films of the 80's were layered thick with. It's an easy film to have fun with – fighter jets, motorcycles (a sweet looking Kawasaki Ninja 900 / GPz900R), good guys against bad guys, a dash of the underdog, and enough cheese to make the entire state of Wisconsin proud. But it's a little too straightforward and the plotting is uneven. Surprisingly, the predictable hero ending doesn't exactly come to pass as one might have expected, but there's celebration to be had all the same.
Top Gun moves at a brisk pace – and the aerial photography is a chief character in the film – but beyond the simplicity of the outline and the peppering of new and familiar talents, like Val Kilmer and Tom Skerrit, daytona beach hotels and resorts there really isn't much to it. Tony Scott – brother of Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) – is the more commercially inclined director and has defined his films through mosaic cuts, orange sky filters, and A-B-C plotting (with the exception daytona beach hotels and resorts of Déjà vu). Top Gun represents the early stages daytona beach hotels and resorts of his style's evolution, but this film is undoubtedly his.
Tom Cruise stars as Vincent, a cold contract killer in Los Angeles for one night. Chance or fate sets him in the taxi driven daytona beach hotels and resorts by Max (Jamie Foxx) where he coerces the kind cabbie to make 5 stops so that he can complete his '5 jobs'. Max tries several times to escape his dire situation but each failure reaps more bloodshed. Max must find a way to stop the killing and save himself before the night is over. Cruise is at his darkest and perhaps most surprising as the pepper-haired hit man. The construct of setting daytona beach hotels and resorts the events over the course of one night maintains a palpable tension and cohesiveness to the drama, rendering Collateral one of director Michael Mann's most potent films.
Beyond the killer/cabbie partnership in which Jamie Foxx's Max is the unwilling participant, Collateral is built around the verbal dynamic between the characters. Hit after hit, Max struggles with his fear of the out-of-control predicament in which he finds himself, and Cruise's Vincent takes it all in stride. Additional strands of plot and story – such as the L.A. detectives (Mark Ruffelo, Peter Berg) playing catch up through the crime scenes left behind, and the honest and natural attraction and connection Max experienced with Annie (played by the criminally underrated Jada Pinkett Smith), a ride whom he had just dropped off when he picked up Vincent, flesh out the world of Mann's L.A. and add dimension to an already compelling film.
Michael Mann's filming technique daytona beach hotels and resorts and cameras used on Collateral were the direct result of his experience producing the quality but short-lived CBS show, Robbery Homicide Division – hand-held, natural/city lighting used as the primary or sole source; a very spur of the moment sense of filmmaking sufficiently daytona beach hotels and resorts apt for the scene and story. There is a distinct favoring of mosaic shots setting both a mood and tone to the picture. Snaps of city streets and street lights bleeding across the car windows, the unnaturally electric lights of Los Angeles establishing a cold, unknowing outside that Foxx's character can only feel ignored by. It is a spectacular form for this thriller to have taken. Mann would seek to accomplish the same sense in 2006's big screen adaptation of Miami Vice – but an excess of the style coupled with characters audiences could not recognize or connect to – doomed that venture. In Collateral – we so easily identify with Max and become invested in him surviving his unsettling circumstances that, despite finding some sense of awe of Cruise's Vincent, root for the cabbie wholeheartedly.
Though Collateral is often cited as the rare occasion where Tom Cruise daytona beach hotels and resorts shed his likable good-guy image to play a terrifically cold killer, it is Jamie Foxx's everyman performance that stands the furthest out. Foxx demonstrates great maturity and ability as the cabbie thrust into a grim nightmare chauffeuring a hit-man around Los Angeles and this role is a great foreshadowing of his Oscar winning turn as Ray Charles.
Collateral is a collision, a conflagration of the impenetrably stoic and sterile killer instincts of Vincent and the calm and open-hearted, likable Max. The dynamic that exists between them, as it ebbs and flows between tenuous connection and diametric opposites – is the engine that fuels this thrilling, superbly gripping film.
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