Max the cab driver picks up Vincent the hitman. Vincent has 5 jobs to complete before the night is out. Unfortunately, for him, his first job is sloppy and involves Max the cab driver and the cab which start to slowly give Vincents position away to the authorities.
Max is then faced with (unwillingly) aiding a murderer or be killed himself. From this point on it's pretty heavily packed with action and shooty, lots of shooty - Vincent is after all an assassin.
The ClearPlay experience
I often times watch my movies with captions - after everyone has gone to bed, so as to be able to know what is being said without making it too loud for those sleeping, which is how (if you've read previous posts of mine) that I know when language is muted or skipped entirely, if there is language at all.
Collateral has the typical R-rated language, with heavy amounts emphasis on the F-bomb.
And an assassin movie really can't be such without guns and lots of shooting.
Collateral is Rated R for Violence and Language and has a common sense rating of a heavy PG-13, since all instances of swearing were wiped out nicely and a lot of the violence was fairly blood-free which means that the shooting was more on the PG-13 side.
However there is a lot of shooting and such an excess is considered to be pretty hard for younger viewers to watch, which is where it earns it's R rating from, in an unfiltered state. (e.g. Matrix [rated -R], is fairly, if not entirely blood-free, but the amount of shooting is extremely excessive.)
A lot of the shooting was kept in, mainly because it's Vincent's method to move things out of his way (windows, walls, etc) and the movie would feel rather disjointed if a clean office building was all of the sudden torn to shreds, if you didn't know Vincents turned the place in to Swiss Cheese. So, on that note even with swearing eliminated entirely, a lot of the violence had to stay in, for continuity sake.
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