After missing it in the Japanese theaters and on airplanes in-flight service and in hotel rooms’ pay-per-view, I finally saw Collateral last night via rental DVD. Due to a sense of high school nostalgia caused by Manhunter and Miami Vice (forgiving a misstep with The Keep ), I am willing to watch just about anything Michael Mann makes. Moreso that Heat , Collateral felt like a return to the stylings of Miami Vice’s action and drama, with natural, well-paced comedy to even out the emotional pacing. In a word, Collateral was good. With all the freak-out based press Tom Cruise has been given, and hearing what appears to be zealotry in his responses to a German interviewer who questioned the data as Cruise presented it, it is even easier to watch him in the role of a villain. It is probably preferable; he did a good job with the arrogant, untouchable Lestat in Interview with the Vampire , though that character was a bit more ham-fisted than the role of assassin, Vincent, pla...
Just for the pedantry - it's PGR 3. PGR 1 & PGR 2 were Xbox (should we start calling that Xbox 180?) titles and the whole series is basically the spiritual heir of Metropolis Street Racer from the Dreamcast.
ReplyDeleteI tend to overlook Bizarre Creations and PGR when listing my Microsoft rants - I guess they are another of the few companies who didn't get the raging phallus from MS. Which is an odd omission because I still play PGR2 online occasionally - I should remember better. I wasn't sure for a while that PGR3 was happening, but it does look like it's gonna be sweet.
Often I'd dismiss this sort of shot as not representing the gameplay, but since they already have a track record of having cool racing in realistic looking cities I'll give them a pass on this one.