Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

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Collateral Damage

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, Miguel Sandoval

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... read more read more.... 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 Curtis), a terrorist and rebel in Colombia's decade-long civil war. When times passes with no suspect being brought to justice, Brewer rejects the advice of FBI agent Peter Brandt (Elias Koteas) and travels to the jungles of Colombia to find and take revenge upon his family's murderer himself. Encountering a complex web of death squads, right-wing military officials, guerrillas, terrorists and drug-lords, Brewer is aided in his dangerous quest by an unlikely ally, the beautiful Selena Perrini (Francesca Neri), his quarry's wife. Collateral Damage (2002) co-stars John Leguizamo and John Turturro. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

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  • fb733768972
    April 13, 2012
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    In this complex revenge Schwarzenegger outing, we find Gordon Brewer, an ordinary man whose family has been killed by terrorists. We then learn many things that happened before the attack and begin to wonder who is also working with the terrorists. This is the only real twist thr... read moreoughout the film. It is definitely not original and the characterizations are more than likely slapped together, but the action is pretty awesome and the subtle moments between characters is very refreshing. I thought it was extremely cliche and made me role my eyes when I found out that they decided to take the route of seeing a family that looks like his own in order to make the plot work. Overall, "Collateral Damage" is not a bad movie, in fact, it is a lot of fun, but in the end, it's just another average action flick that nobody will remember. It was okay!
  • October 26, 2011
    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... read more the action scenes were derivative. Collateral Damage is a decent action film, but it doesn't try anything new or exciting. The film has potential to be an effective and great action film, however halfway through, the film falls apart slightly, and it becomes predictable. The script suffers from, being predictable and the film ends up being a bit boring. The film had the potential to be a strong action film, but it uses a watered down predictable formula to create its story and thus you lose slight interest in the film. Collateral Damage is a decent action film that does entertain, but it could have been done much better. Arnold Schwarzenegger has done far better action films than this, and though he delivers on-screen, his performance doesn't elevate the film from being a decent film to a good film. Collateral Damage is a decent action, but it never does anything really interesting, and that's a shame because the film had so much potential for being something great Collateral Damage is overall, a decent time waster that could have done much better, but for what it is, it's far from bad but it's clear that the film could have been done much better than this.
  • February 9, 2011
    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 effect... read mores. While it descends into classic Schwarzenegger, him taking down the entire group of Colombian Terrorists in their own back yard without any guns, knives or pointy sticks its the beggining that grabs you and the emotional involvement as his character deals with the loss of his wife and child.

    Lots of surprises and worth a watch, if only for Arnolds impersonation of a German ...

    "I'll show you collateral damage! "
  • January 21, 2011
    Okay movie. Nothing more. Not really a cretive plot. We have all seen the "revange the death of your family" thing once too many times. I think that Arnold acted better that usual...but still...
    And was it just me or was there a Cape Fear reference in there?
  • August 15, 2010
    A lot better tan I ever remember it being, this is a classic Arnold experience. Not only does he take down Colombian terrorism, he does it single-handed without and guns. Gordy Brewer is not the man you want to mess with, killing his family will result in total destruction. This ... read moremovie is action packed and put on a grand scale, it's not a simple shoot 'em up. It's actually a very intelligent and well thought out plot with lots of good characters. I think it's one of the few times Arnold doesn't use a lot of one liners, it's a interesting change of pace.
  • July 21, 2009
    well lets see i saw this when i was 12, and at that time i was obsessed with Swashazanazzzegr and i probably loved it. unfortunately that means it probably sucks
  • March 1, 2008
    He's been almost everywhere, why didn't he do a movie in German? that would've been great tony.
  • February 12, 2008
    Could of been more enjoyable if it wasent so over the top, the action and suspense work well but the plot is silly an ordinary man wanting revenge against terrorist for the death of his family..oh please.
  • February 8, 2008
    An insult, not only to colombia, but also for people with good taste. preposterous and misguided.
  • August 26, 2007
    Powerful first-class suspense-filled thriller of the hero Arnie who comes for his revenge to find the leader terrorist.

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