How suspense is created ( collateral )

Here iam going talk about collateral and how it creates suspense in the film. Collateral is a 2004 crime thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. It was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie. The opening scene starts of with Tom Cruise(Vincent) entering Jamie Foxx’s(Max) taxi, then he forces max to go around with him looking for the victims.
I have selected three scenes, which I believe builds tension in the film, here is a list of them:

• stolen bag scene
• car crash scene
• train scene

In this scene Vincent handcuffs Max on to the steering wheel and goes to kill another victim. While he is upstairs Max calls some people to give him hand to get rid of the handcuffs but they come out as mean people and stole Vincent’s bag. Vincent comes down and sees his bag missing; he goes after the men and kills them with quick reflexes. Suspense comes in when the other man tries to get out his gun, Vincent recognises and shoots him quickly as you can see on the above picture.

Here is a picture of the car crash scene, in this scene Max and Vincent are in the car coming from the party going to kill another victim, while Max is driving Vincent says something that effects Max. Max speeds up by going pass the red light because he has had enough of Vincent killing people, Vincent then holds a gun at Max's head and threatens to kill him but Max don’t care about anything and carries on speeding up. Max then speeds up onto a ramp turns the car badly so that the car can flip over, so he can get rid of Vincent. Suspense comes in as tension was built up all the way; because Vincent would not give a chance and kill Max but he did not instead the opposite happened and them both got away with it and managed to stay alive.

In the final scene of collateral I am going to talk about the train; this is the strongest scene as strange things happen. The scene takes place on the train as Max takes Annie as far as possible to prevent Vincent from not killing her as she is the last victim, but Vincent manages to get on the same train, when he actually goes to the train in front of him. When the train stops Vincent gets out of the train ready to shoot Max and Annie, but Max acts smart and stays on. The doors close and Vincent moves along to the next carriage where Max and Annie are to capture them. The shootout begins but nothing happens to now one as Vincent and Max run out of bullets which made the audience think they will fight but they sat down and started talking, Vincent looked like he had enough by facing is head down, Max and Annie both get off. In this scene the suspense came in when Vincent managed to get on the right train as he ran to the train in front instead of the one downstairs, but actually jumped at the train downstairs believing Max and Annie being there.