Collateral Damage | | Cast : | Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Leguizamo | | Director : | Andrew Davis | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | February 08, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | February 08, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 23, 2005 | | Summary | Absolutely horrid! | Content
 | I have to admit that I enjoy Arnold's movies and even like the ones that are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO UNREALISTIC like Commando. But, this one was absolutely horrid. The plot is lame, the action is lame, the suspense is lame, everything is lame. It was terrible! Arnold plays a firefighter bent on revenge after his son and wife are killed in an explosion. And of course, he kicks but. Anyway, I own this terrible movie and think about throwing it out of my window a lot. It's horrid!
It's not interesting, boring, repetitive and there is no suspense. Oh my gosh! Is the terrorist attack going to work? Of course not because Arnold the firefighter will save the world! I hated this terrible movie! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 09, 2005 | | Summary | Not Bad | Content
| Not bad for his 2nd to last film. I'd say this was definately better than Terminator 3, which was somewhat of a letdown. Arnold plays a real guy in this movie who has a real personality, unlike in some of his others. He is also humbled a little more, and by that I mean he gets the crap beat out of him in some scenes, so don't expect a Commando re-hash. I'd say that this also has alot of meaning compared to Arnold's other beat-em up shoot-em up flicks. But, you won't be let down with the action that is also included in this film, it's just more meaningful. I think you'll like this if you like Arnold, but also appreciate intelligence and substance. If you liked True Lies, you'll like this. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 18, 2005 | | Summary | Watching this movie causes brain damage | Content
| Collateral Damage was Arnold Schwarzenegger's next to last movie before entering California politics. It's a good thing he changed careers. A few more stinkers like this and he wouldn't continue to work in Hollywood. Yes this is another of the movies that belong in the Lesser Schwarzenegger pile right under the 6th Day and Batman & Robin. Brain Damage is a better title for this movie because you'll need to be in order to enjoy this movie.
Arnold plays surprise-a guy named John (again-don't these action heroes have any other name other than Jack or John? No Daves, Earls, or Lyles around to kick butt?) who is a firefighter who saw his family murdered by terrorists. He decides with no military training or skills to go into the Amazon rain forest to seek out the terrorists and kill them. The film tries to be complex, but goes nowhere fast. I wound up checking out of this movie around the hour mark and came back to see the ending only because nothing else was on TV. True to formula Jack kills the bad guys after spouting the clever cliché.
Watching Collateral damage will give you brain damage. Avoid this waste of time at all costs. For a good bad action movie fix get Deadly Heroes, American Ninja, or American Ninja 2. Or you could get one of the better Schwarzenegger movies like Commando, True Lies, Terminator Total Recall or T2.
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| Rating | | | Date | October 31, 2004 | | Summary | It was Great | Content
| Firefighter Gordon Brewer's (Arnold Schwarzenegger) family is the "collateral damage" of a terrorist bombing in Los Angeles. When the U.S. government turns to peace talks with the perpetrators instead of justice for his family, Brewer heads to Colombia intent on payback. But when he meets the wife (Francesca Neri) and child of his family's murderer (Cliff Curtis), nothing is as it seems, and all hell breaks loose in true "Ah-nuld" style. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 29, 2004 | | Summary | Collateral Damage with Arnold Schwarenneger | Content
| Collateral Damage is the great and partially real action film in which Arnold Schwarzenger plays a fireman hell bent on getting his hands on the Terrorist who killed his wife and kid and many other citizens near a shopping mall.
With the attacks on Sept 11 , movies have tried to cash in but Collateral Damage is different. Arnold even dedicated the movie to firefighters everywhere in an interview with Byron Allen.
The movie is brilliant in showing what only what the motivation behind terrorist attacks , but the depiction of slow agencies like fbi to counter these terrorist attacks.
Basically, the FBI and CIA tell Gorden Brewer(Arnold Schwarzennger) that they are working to bring down the terrorist who killed his family, when in fact they have no good leads on the suspect.
Rather, than sitting on his butt, and waiting for the FBI to do something, Gordon takes the law into his own hands and seeks to get justice for his family by going into Columbia and getting ''The Wolf''(Cliff Curtis) as the terrorist is called.
There is a great scene in which Gordon goes crazy and literally beats the hell out of a cold-blooded radio news reporter who says that the victims are pure garbage by saying their ''collateral damage''. The radio reporter explains the reasons behind terrorist attacks but shows no feeling for victims. I loved this scene, because this reporter clearly has no remorse for the dead. He probably has no family of his own, and doesn't know the meaning of life, except to cover his own.
Now you might say to yourself what's the difference between Arnold's character (who is going for justice) and the terrorist well here is the big difference from Arnold himself: ''The difference between me and you is that I am only going to kill you''.
Unbelievable action and twists at the end, that you're literally be on the edge of youre seat, and just when you think the movie is over.... it's not !!!
Director Andrew Davis not only gives a fact type based movie based on Columbia, but also a factual based type movie that deals with Terrorism and the lessons that we must learn to see that things like this don't happen again.
In fact, most people will remember the horrible case of Wall Street Reporter , Daniel Pearl, who was executed after the U.S. failed to meet the demands of the Middle East terrorist holding.
The U.S. should have gone after these terrorists like the way Arnold does in this movie. but then the U.S. does not have a great track record when it comes to nailing terrorist even going back to the 1970's the U.S. supported and backed up
madmen like General Pinochet in Chile and dictator Samoza in Nicaragua. Both of them killed hundreds of people with U.S. backing and funding.
Still though ''Collateral Damage'' is a great action film that you must see.
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