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Collateral Damage (2002)

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Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 141
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 115

Despite its timely subject matter, Collateral Damage is an unexceptional and formulaic action thriller.

Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 24

Despite its timely subject matter, Collateral Damage is an unexceptional and formulaic action thriller.

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Movie Info

This action-adventure, that features a terrorist plot from The Fugitive (1993), saw its October 2001 release date moved back four months as a result of real-life terrorist attacks on the United States. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Gordon Brewer, a Los Angeles firefighter who witnesses the deaths of his wife and child, innocent victims of a terrorist attack on a motorcade carrying Colombian dignitaries. Responsibility for the deadly explosion belongs to Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini (Cliff

R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

Directed By: Andrew Davis

Written By: David Griffiths, Peter Griffiths

In Theaters: Feb 8, 2002 Wide

On DVD: Jul 30, 2002

Box Office:$40.0M

Warner Bros. Pictures

It will be remembered less for its generic content than for the real-life events that give it an eerie resonance.

November 6, 2002 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Jeff Strickler

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Ugly, predictable and dumb as dirt.

March 13, 2002 Comment

Rex Reed

New York Observer

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A stinker.

February 17, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Schwarzenegger tries hard to act but in the end the foolishness of the thriller formula becomes ridiculous.

February 16, 2002 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

Top Critic

The result is an 'action film' mired in stasis.

February 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

A numbingly routine Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie.

February 13, 2002 Comment

Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

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Schwarzenegger in very violent vigilante film.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Straining every muscle not to offend, Collateral Damage counts basic coherence among its own casualties. But it's crystal clear on one point: Taking mercy on the "enemy," women and children included, is for wimps.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

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Rob Nelson

City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Schwarzenegger's Brewer remarks, 'If I don't do it, it seems no one else will,' but that's a lousy excuse for...a multi-million dollar mistake like this one. [Blu-ray]

May 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

...standard DAM territory, a commonplace Dumb Arnold Movie that he could have made in his sleep. Nonetheless, it's passable entertainment for action fans. (Blu-ray Edition)

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...the studio didn't make it for any particular political purpose; it's basically just a stock, action-revenge flick, typical of Big Arnold.

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

A competent Schwarzenegger action movie that will appeal to the nostalgic.

August 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

The plot is laughably bad, and the action not much better.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Empire Magazine

The film's less knee-jerk than it could have been.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Time Out

Diverting popcorn entertainment.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Michael Dequina

Film Threat

Judged purely as a piece of escapist popcorn fun, Collateral Damage only barely passes muster.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Scott Weinberg

Apollo Guide

... Time may be running out for Arnold the action hero.

January 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Apparently, it's relatively easy for a 6-foot tall, musclebound, non Spanish-speaking white guy to penetrate the depths of the Colombian guerilla-controlled jungle

March 19, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Brian Mckay

eFilmCritic.com

The whole South American adventure looks so forced you half expect Schwarzenegger to break into a travel programme piece to camera.

February 12, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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Harry Guerin

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Rule of thumb: if Arnold Schwarzenegger is the smartest person in a movie, you've got problems.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online

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John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

All in all, "Collateral Damage" is entertaining in all the ways a Schwarzenegger film is expected to: bad guys do him dirty, Arnold's character vows revenge, lots of things blow up, and the bad guys get theirs... a more intense actor would have carried it

December 29, 2002 Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com

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Kevin A. Ranson

MovieCrypt.com

An entertaining action movie, nothing more, nothing less.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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David Grove

Film Threat

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Collateral Damage is a decent action film, but is predictable and uses plot elements from other, better films to create this story. I was entertained watching this film, but I felt that the film could have been much better. I felt the film was fairly predictable, and that some of the action scenes were derivative.

October 25, 2011

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

Guns - Tick. Explotions - Tick. Ridiculous series of events - Tick. A typical post 1990's Schwarzenegger film riding the success of previous years - No Tick.Collateral Damage hits all the right current affair notes with acts of Terrorism and the innocent people that this effects. While it descends into classic

February 9, 2011

Christopher Alcock

Super Reviewer

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