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Oh yeah! I saw Edwin's post about that the other day and was immediately anticipating my trip to the opening day matinee for that film! The way Mann made 1960s Chicago and Las Vegas sizzle with noir coolness on a tv budget in Crime Story, I can only imagine the magic he'll be able to weave...

I didn't catch that, but I thought the whole opening scene with Tom Cruise's arrival at the airport was very much an echo of Robert DeNiro's entrance to the hospital at the beginning of Heat.

I think it's a Mann thing. He often revisits ideas, techniques and plot points in subsequent movies. He also re-uses character names and actors, often flip-flopping them from bad guy to good guy and vice-versa.; anyone else think Mark Ruffalo was channeling Al Pacino's Vincent Hanna when he was...

I think it's important to note that, unlike most of Mann's other films, like Heat, Ali and The Insider, he didn't write the screenplay for Collateral; maybe that's why the ending felt a little more "Hollywood," and seemed to lack Mann's usual precise attention to detail. Also, while Mann is a...