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Reviews Counted:141
Fresh:25
Rotten:116
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Despite its timely subject matter, Collateral Damage is an unexceptional and formulaic action thriller.
Theatrical Release:Feb 8, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $39,965,988
Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a lone Los Angeles fireman whose wife and child are killed by a terrorist bomb in this eerily prescient action drama. Vowing revenge against the Columbian guerilla... [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, John Leguizamo
Director: Andrew Davis
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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.
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]
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...the studio didn't make it for any particular political purpose; it's basically just a stock, action-revenge flick, typical of Big Arnold.
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Top CriticA competent Schwarzenegger action movie that will appeal to the nostalgic.
Top CriticThe plot is laughably bad, and the action not much better.
Top CriticThe film's less knee-jerk than it could have been.
Top CriticAn entertaining action movie, nothing more, nothing less.
Diverting popcorn entertainment.
Judged purely as a piece of escapist popcorn fun, Collateral Damage only barely passes muster.
... Time may be running out for Arnold the action hero.
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
The whole South American adventure looks so forced you half expect Schwarzenegger to break into a travel programme piece to camera.
Rule of thumb: if Arnold Schwarzenegger is the smartest person in a movie, you've got problems.
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
An entertaining action movie, nothing more, nothing less.
It will be remembered less for its generic content than for the real-life events that give it an eerie resonance.
Top CriticThis simplistic good and evil concept has long been a staple of Hollywood. What is more worrying is that it now appears to constitute American foreign policy.
Loud, noisy, piece of garbage.
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