A competent Schwarzenegger action movie that will appeal to the nostalgic.
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Collateral Damage (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 138
Fresh: 25
Rotten:113
Average Rating: 4/10
Consensus: Despite its timely subject matter, Collateral Damage is an unexceptional and formulaic action thriller.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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 leader who set the bomb, Gordy Brewer... [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, John Leguizamo
Director: Andrew Davis
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Reviews for Collateral Damage
Judged purely as a piece of escapist popcorn fun, Collateral Damage only barely passes muster.
03/16/04
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
03/19/03
The whole South American adventure looks so forced you half expect Schwarzenegger to break into a travel programme piece to camera.
02/12/03
Rule of thumb: if Arnold Schwarzenegger is the smartest person in a movie, you've got problems.
02/08/03
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
12/29/02
It will be remembered less for its generic content than for the real-life events that give it an eerie resonance.
11/06/02
Top Critic This 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.
10/30/02
In a world where the cost of real violence and the sacrifices of real heroes are inescapable reality, there is no connection to be made with the empty, ersatz heroics of a movie like this.
10/15/02
Bound to be remembered (if at all) as one of Schwarzenegger's lesser vehicles.
09/10/02
Sept. 11 has made this type of explosion-filled movie tedious and Schwarzenegger's brand of heroics irrelevant.
08/30/02
It's the colourful supporting performances that help Arnold keep face through this enjoyable, if unessential, genre entry.
08/27/02
The question remains whether Americans are ready for a film whose plot hits so close to home. The answer: Americans are always ready for mindless, predictable crap.
08/22/02
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