History YMMV / Collateral

* HoYayShipping[=/=]FoeYayShipping - Vincent/Max is a popular pairing in fanfic. Someone might have been banking on that when it came to the trailers.

* EvilIsSexy: Wait for it...Vincent. He's played by Creator/TomCruise, after all.

* DracoInLeatherPants - Vincent, if the fanfics are to be believed.

* EvilIsCool: Vincent dresses himself in some [[BadassInANiceSuit badass threads]], is dangerously efficient as his [[ProfessionalKiller job]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiqwF_Y9S5Q case in point]]), has a fairly extensive knowledge of jazz, and is pretty friggin' [[EvilIsSexy handsome]]. But as the film goes on, it's shown how a empty and messed up he is.

** Max's mother, played by Irma P. Hall the EnsembleDarkhorse of ''Film/TheLadykillers'' remake released the same year. A sick elder woman who constantly does not see the good in her son. It's both funny thanks to Hall's performance and sad for Max's development.

* FunnyMoments: Vincent tripping over a chair.
**
-->'''Vincent''': [after Vincent and Max load a corpse into the cab's trunk] Let's go.
-->'''Max''': Hey, why don't you just take the cab?
-->'''Vincent''': Take the cab?
-->'''Max''': Yeah, you take it. I'll - I'll chill. I'll - I'll just chill. They don't even know who's driving these things half the time anyway. They never check or anything. Okay... so... just - just take it. You, me...
-->'''Vincent''': You promise not to tell anybody right?
-->'''Max''': Yeah... yeah... yeah... Promise.
-->'''Vincent''': Get in the fucking car.
-->'''Max''': If you just...
-->'''Vincent''': Get in the car.

* HilariousInHindsight: Javier Bardem plays the man who hires Vincent, and would himself eventually go on to play and win an Oscar for [[Literature/NoCountryForOldMen one of the most iconic and frightening hitmen in cinematic history.]]

* SignatureScene: The briefcase scene, due to Cruise's outright ''scary'' speed and efficiency he uses to take down some thugs.

* JerkassWoobie: Oddly enough, Vincent has shades of this. His childhood wasn't the most pleasant and [[spoiler:his final moments before he dies are shown in a [[AlasPoorVillain sympathetic light]]]].

* AwardCategoryFraud: When Creator/JamieFoxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that Creator/TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known. Another reason for Foxx getting campaigned there was because he was the frontrunner to win Best Actor for ''Film/{{Ray}}'' that same year, and the studios wanted to avoid potentially splitting the votes for his performances.
* AwardSnub: Cruise wasn't nominated at all despite being highly praised for his performance.

* AwardSnub:
** An odd example. When Creator/JamieFoxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that Creator/TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known. Another reason for Foxx getting campaigned there was because he was the frontrunner to win Best Actor for ''{{Ray}}'' that same year, and the studios wanted to avoid potentially splitting the votes for his performances.
** There's also the matter of Cruise not getting nominated at all despite being highly praised for his performance.

** At one point in the movie, Tom Cruise's character [[Film/TropicThunder grabs a Max's cab radio and start making threats at the guy at the other side of the line.]]

** At one point in the movie, Tom Cruise's character [[Film/TropicThunder grabs a cellphone and start making threats at the guy at the other side of the line.]]

* LoveToHate: Sensing a pattern here? If not, its Vincent.

** An odd example. When Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that Creator/TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known. Another reason for Foxx getting campaigned there was because he was the frontrunner to win Best Actor for ''{{Ray}}'' that same year, and the studios wanted to avoid potentially splitting the votes for his performances.

* TheWoobie: Poor, poor Max. He goes through a lot of shit in the movie, and who knows how he is at the end even if he did [[TookALevelInBadass take a huge level in badass]]. Thank God he befriended a prosecutor because all the shit he didi in the movie is probably gonna land him in some legal trouble.

-->''Vincent'': [after Vincent and Max load a corpse into the cab's trunk] Let's go.
-->''Max'': Hey, why don't you just take the cab?
-->''Vincent'': Take the cab?
-->''Max'': Yeah, you take it. I'll - I'll chill. I'll - I'll just chill. They don't even know who's driving these things half the time anyway. They never check or anything. Okay... so... just - just take it. You, me...
-->''Vincent'': You promise not to tell anybody right?
-->''Max'': Yeah... yeah... yeah... Promise.
-->''Vincent'': Get in the fucking car.
-->''Max'': If you just...
-->''Vincent'': Get in the car.

* TheWoobie: Poor, poor Max. He goes through a lot of shit in the movie, and who knows how he is at the end even if he did [[TookALevelInBadass take a huge level in badass]].

Vincent: [after Vincent and Max load a corpse into the cab's trunk] Let's go.
Max: Hey, why don't you just take the cab?
Vincent: Take the cab?
Max: Yeah, you take it. I'll - I'll chill. I'll - I'll just chill. They don't even know who's driving these things half the time anyway. They never check or anything. Okay... so... just - just take it. You, me...
Vincent: You promise not to tell anybody right?
Max: Yeah... yeah... yeah... Promise.
Vincent: Get in the fucking car.
Max: If you just...
Vincent: Get in the car.

** An odd example. When Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that Creator/TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known. [[JustifiedTrope Perhaps justified though,]] as Foxx was nominated for Best Actor for ''{{Ray}}'' in the same year, this avoided nominating him twice in the same category.

* NightmareFuel: The famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiqwF_Y9S5Q briefcase scene]]. [[ImprobableAimingSkills Vincent draws, and then fires five aimed shots, in 1.5 seconds]]. (Even more terrifying: that was not CGI, a stunt man, or slo-mo. Creator/TomCruise trained for that scene and then performed it reel-for-reel.)

* EvilIsCool: Vincent dresses himself in some [[BadassInANiceSuit badass threads]], is dangerously efficient as his [[ProfessionalKiller job]] ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiqwF_Y9S5Q case in point]]), has a fairly extensive knowledge of jazz, and is pretty friggin' [[EvilIsSexy handsome]].

* FunnyMoments:
Vincent: You promise not to tell anybody right?
Max: Yeah... yeah... yeah... Promise.
Vincent: Get in the fucking car.
Max: If you just...
Vincent: Get in the car.

* BadassDecay: [[spoiler:Vincent goes from being a cold-calculating hitman who can perform the improbable aiming feat mentioned below to a simple thug with a gun when he goes after Max, a common cabbie. Since the movie didn't want to have a TheBadGuyWins ending, they suddenly gave Vincent a course in the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. Possibly justified since Vincent has been ''shot in the head'' right before the climactic chase, causing him to undergo something of a villanous breakdown.]] In the final shootout on the MTA train, [[spoiler: Vincent's trained, straight shooting ends up hitting the part of the metal door between the two windows, whereas Max's untrained, relatively chaotic shooting ends up penetrating the windows and (eventually) hitting Vincent.]]

* NightmareFuel: The famous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zJlsc8GU50 briefcase scene]]. [[ImprobableAimingSkills Vincent draws, and then fires five aimed shots, in 1.5 seconds]]. (Even more terrifying: that was not CGI, a stunt man, or slo-mo. Creator/TomCruise trained for that scene and then performed it real-for-reel.)
* SignatureScene:
** The briefcase scene, due to Cruise's outright ''scary'' speed and efficiency he uses to take down some thugs.

** An odd example. When Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known. [[JustifiedTrope Perhaps justified though,]] as Foxx was nominated for Best Actor for ''{{Ray}}'' in the same year, this avoided nominating him twice in the same category.

* DracoInLeatherPants - Vincent, if the fanfic's are to be believed.

* NightmareFuel: The famed "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zJlsc8GU50 briefcase shootout]]." [[ImprobableAimingSkills Vincent draws, and then fires five aimed shots, in 1.5 seconds]]. (Even more terrifying: that was not CGI, that was not a stunt man, that was not slo-mo. TomCruise trained for that scene and then performed it real-for-reel.)

** Max and Vincent are stopped at a light. Max is distraught, Vincent indifferent. Suddenly, a friggin' coyote crosses the street, accompanied by the intro riff of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfF4t9-wpCM "Shadow on the Sun"]] by {{Audioslave}}.

* FridgeLogic: A previous case involving a cab driver who apparently "went crazy" shooting several people in a single night, then killed himself, is implied to show Vincent's intentions re Max. But since all the hits are related to the same case, it's unlikely the police would believe these deaths were the result of Max going crazy.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4EB9FKwN2c This]] for Max, and for Vincent, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnIvLg5meN8 the attack on Target #4]].