In 2004, Michael Mann produced the movie Collateral with a menagerie of A-list stars humbly gelling together a very introspective piece with many a moral befitting Aesop's fables or something Shakespearean. Story telling is more than likely the oldest profession out there contrary to popular rumours because God told the first story. He said, let there be light. We enjoy stories and rely on them for entertainment and edification and its a pretty good business these days with the help of Lights, cameras and lots of action from Lucas Arts and other special effects gurus.
Collateral 2 hopefully will continue the stoic morality tale as we adapt and understand our unfortunate appreciation of dying millions in other lands like Rwanda. We also know where Miles Davis learned how to play the trumpet or where he was educated. The answer to where he learned how to play the trumpet and where he was educated may bear two results and the cost of not listening to the question might be very heavy indeed. Answering the risky question must be commensurated with reasonable reward.
Collateral 2- The Return of Vincent gives us a few prequel scenes of Vincent flying in from Costa Rica where he lives with his wife and three beautiful girls. He is a former U.S. something or other and now works for the "Fast and Furious" drug chains in this 21st Century version of 1920's style prohibition.
Vincent is healed and patched up in L.A. buy an underground Chinese Hospital and then spends time on small jobs in Hawaii when he is asked to finish the job in L.A. for the re-trial and the second-string witnesses to be called by the D.A. The first set of witnesses were removed successfully and the previous D.A. assisted by the Taxi Driver is now a Judge in Ontario, California.
The taxi driver is arrested for having a gun after saving the D.A.'s life and the D.A. refuses to corroborate the Taxi Driver's story as she is too afraid to be involved, to make a statement or to put her own family's life at risk because Vincent did not die and ran away from that L.A. transit train.
Max buys a fleet of Audi A7 E-Tron hydrogen vehicles for his limo service with a law suit settlement as a victim of serious crime and also in light of his cooperation called Sinai Limo after his charges are withdrawn. The security video in the train, the DA building and the subway stations corroborate his story. He sees Vincent returning from Hawaii at the airport and follows Vincent to his hotel. Vincent discovers he is being tailed and, by suprise, follows Max into an elevator where he scruffs him up like new or old 19th or 21st century friends. They sit down to catch up in the hotel bar to some good good french wine. Vincent tells Max not to call the police and to really decide to just get on with his damn life. Max is torn between being charged with aiding and abetting someone or being a good citizen. He chooses good citizen. By the time Max gets back from using the payphone to call the local L.A. county police, Vincent is gone. He did not actually check in. This is a very good story! You never know who you will meet in a taxi cab, the underground parking garage or in your law office. This time, Vincent borrows a parking attendant driver and his vehicle to get to his various work or job sites. The parking attendant is a West Indian and his dream job is just to be able to have one girlfriend and not be typecast. He really wasn't West Indian anyway but born there of Cuban and Chinese Scots-Irish ancestry. Well, really his dream job is to have his own fleet of Hydrogen delivery trucks for Mountain Dew already delivered by Hydrogen powered trucks as is the case with other Pepsi products. Vincent brings a tablet computer with touch screen running on Android software just like last time and designed by Samsung.
It ends with the Parking attendant fighting Vincent for the parking attendant's vehicle which is driven to the boarder by Vincent who gets into a waiting plane with his wife and children for their planned vacation at Disneyland in Brazil.
Vincent meets Felix in Brazil and then takes on the job of grooming new loopers like himself for work, not only in Brazil, but also Africa. They train in mixed martial arts and Vincent is a good good trainer.
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