Beloved Thriller With Tom Cruise as the Villain Is Leaving Netflix

Tom Cruise’s 2004 hit movie Collateral is all set to leave the streaming platform, Netflix. The film is directed by Michael Mann, who is famous for his projects like Heat, Thief, and many more. It was released in theaters on August 6, 2004. Apart from Cruise, the movie features stars like Jamie Foxx, Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, Jason Statham, and many more.

Collateral is leaving Netflix very soon

The 2004 movie Collateral, featuring Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise, is leaving Netflix next month.

According to a report by What’s on Netflix, the action thriller will exit the streaming platform’s catalog on January 1, 2026.

A Michael Mann film, Collateral, was both critically acclaimed and a box office success. Made on a reported budget of $65 million, the movie did an opening collection of $24.7 million. It opened in approximately 3,188 theaters (via Box Office Mojo).

In the domestic market, the movie went on to make over $101 million, whereas in the international market, it earned around $119.2 million. This took the movie’s worldwide collection to approximately $220 million.

On Rotten Tomatoes, Collateral got a satisfactory score of 86 percent on the Tomatometer, based on 238 critic reviews. It was lauded by the moviegoers as well and got a score of 84 percent on the Popcornmeter.

The movie follows the story of Max, a cab driver, played by Jamie Foxx, who later becomes a hostage of a contract killer named Vincent, played by Tom Cruise. While the latter goes on a murder spree, Max embarks on a mission to try to stop him. Moreover, Cruise’s portrayal of an antagonist was praised by critics and the audience.

Talking about the movie on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Michael Mann said, “The attractiveness of ‘Collateral’ was quite intense. To go from doing larger-scale narratives to this story taking place within 12 hours with all the refractions that are happening within the facets of the story to push the metaphor to absurdity…that was the appeal.”

Source: Comingsoon.net