*Collateral *was made in 2004, ten years after *Speed—*and while both films have the same story of a good guy trying to stop a killer in real time, *Collateral *feels decades away from the innocence of *Speed. *Much of that has to do with the villain, who espouses a set of assumptions about the world that we se all around us on LinkedIn, YouTube, and *Shark Tank. *On a lighter note, the movie also ends the debate of how Superman could disguise himself with a simple pair of glasses. It’s a movie made for the hosts: Michael Mann for Mike and Tom Cruise for Dan. Jump in the taxi and give it a listen!
If you love Michael Mann, you love *Heat. *Mann’s new novel, Heat 2, can be found here).
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