I rented "Collateral" for around four dollars -- to watch yesterday, as a treat. "Collateral" was well-liked when it came out--despite Second Act problems--and people especially valued Jamie Foxx, who went on to a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. (He won Lead Actor in the same year, for "Ray.") In "Collateral," Foxx is a man in his mid-thirties, thoroughly "stalled." He wants to own a business but instead drives a cab. He can't even propose a date when he meets someone he likes. It's his great luck that a charismatic psycho-killer--Tom Cruise--winds up in his backseat; by fighting the psycho-killer, Foxx finds his voice and starts to dream up a way to correct his own poor life decisions. (Only in the movies.) This is a bit like "Training Day," and the two scripts are rather suspiciously close together in history. But "Training Day" doesn't have Jamie Foxx. As Foxx begins to develop a spine,...