You can argue that Collide has the cast in Ryan Phillippe and Kat Graham. It also has the location, a nice restaurant, dimly lit yet with a slightly tense atmosphere. But that is where it ends.
Collide lacks any originality. You have a few characters working and are under pressure for what you can describe as extra-curricular reasons. Another are on a blind date, and another are having an affair.
This is supposed to be a film where a number of characters collide as individuals but there is no real link up between them, apart from the fact they chose this restaurant instead of McDonalds.
Fast forward an hour of chatting about the Apartheid and it appears one person has planted a bomb, one is about to try a drug deal which would mean retirement, and we discover one of the staff has been on the take.
Of course, the drug deal goes awry, when don’t they in film? The bomb goes off, the one having the affair has second thoughts about the affair, all because of an explosion, and obviously the bomb goes off killing most of the drug dealers.
It’s not a film that will stop you going out for food as it’s so unrealistic it’s quite funny, if it hadn’t bored me from start to finish.
Whilst there is a little back story it’s not worthy of being watched again and if this was 1995 it would have gone straight to television for free.
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