Just as in real life, you don't see Collateral Damage, you suffer it.
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02/08/02
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Collateral Damage (2002)
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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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Reviews for Collateral Damage
Top CriticCollateral Damage is trash, but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't.
02/08/02
Top CriticCollateral Damage offers formula payback and the Big Payoff, but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks, pyro-correctly.
02/08/02
Surprisingly lifeless.
02/08/02
A clumsily manufactured exploitation flick, a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem.
02/08/02
Arnold is literally laughable in Collateral Damage
02/08/02
Collateral Damage is, despite its alleged provocation post-9/11, an antique, in the end. As are its star, its attitude and its obliviousness.
02/08/02
Top CriticIt's the stuff of every mediocre action movie ever made and enough to make you wonder if it isn't finally time for the genre to die a quiet, dignified death.
02/08/02
At a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is, Collateral Damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture.
02/08/02
A good, solid action drama.
02/08/02
I've always liked his movies for a good laugh, and lately they've come up short on that score.
02/08/02
A competent, if choppy, example of thriller hokum that's more entertaining than either the director's or star's last few outings.
02/08/02
Top Critic[Davis] lays out the action scenes, the easily predictable plot twists and the story's sad ironies efficiently and clearly, but this piece is some distance down the road from his best work.
02/08/02
A piece of revenge porn.
02/08/02
Any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment.
02/08/02
Judged by action-movie standards, it's an embarrassment: predictable, silly, full of coincidences and incredible changes of heart.
02/08/02
Clumsily violent, gratuitously sadistic, obvious and obtuse, it’s the sort of film that might have gone straight to video if not for the personalities involved.
02/08/02
Despite its action-in-a-can mentality, the movie's generic roots gain a new post-terror specificity that lend it an almost bombastic relevance it was never meant to have.
02/08/02
Top CriticCollateral Damage isn't done in by memories of Sept. 11, but by memories of too many movies just like it.
02/08/02
Sadly, for me, it hit too close to home.
02/08/02
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