{"id":4113,"date":"2020-12-11T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/collateral-is-the-most-michael-mann-film-of-all-michael-mann-films\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:22:46","slug":"collateral-is-the-most-michael-mann-film-of-all-michael-mann-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/lifestyle\/collateral-is-the-most-michael-mann-film-of-all-michael-mann-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Collateral<\/em> Is the Most Michael Mann Film of All Michael Mann Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Michael Mann\u2019s greatest movies, the good guys are never really all that different from the bad guys. And make no mistake, they are always guys. The heroes and antiheroes of his stylishly macho films are put through their cat-and-mouse paces in a decidedly grey moral world, rather than a black-and-white one. There\u2019s no room for concepts like right and wrong, they are all lonely nocturnal ambiguity\u2014modern-day Ronin sagas cloaked in a cool shades of gun-metal slate. Just think of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in 1995\u2019s Heat, where these two acting heavyweights play two equally obsessive sides of the same coin. Watching their famous diner tete-a-tete with the sound off, you\u2019d never know who was the cop and who was the criminal. Heat is widely (and rightly) considered to be Mann\u2019s masterpiece\u2014the director\u2019s grand meditation on all of his favorite pet themes: loyalty, honor, integrity, crime, compulsion, loneliness, and the point where good and evil bleed into one another until you\u2019re no longer sure which side you\u2019re meant to be rooting for. It\u2019s a grab bag of leitmotifs that was there from the start in the director\u2019s pair of \u201880s gems, Thief and Manhunter. But as undeniably lean and mean as both of those films are, I\u2019d argue the movie that actually nips most closely at the heels of Heat in the top tier of Mann\u2019s underworld classics is 2004\u2019s Collateral\u2014another violent, nihilism-drenched thriller that, if you squint just a little, seems to exist in the same spiritual… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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In Michael Mann\u2019s greatest movies, the good guys are never really all that different from the bad guys. And make no mistake, they are always guys. The heroes and antiheroes of his stylishly macho films are put through their cat-and-mouse paces in a decidedly grey moral world, rather than a black-and-white one. 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