jordansepticeye This movie was okay,not the worst,not the best.First,the good,the story,well it is generic,it is well executed and it has a few good twists and turns.The pacing,the movie went by fast,but not too fast.The villains,they weren't amazing,but they were well written,they were intimidating and brutal,but you could understand were they were coming from,which was unexpected from an Arnold Schwarznegger movie.The climax,well not the best,was exciting and suspenseful.The best part though,was Arnold himself,well he does have to act through some bad dialogue,he was entertaining,and in a great twist,Arnold isn't an invincible badass,he gets hurt and fails to save people.Now,the bad,as I said,some of the dialogue is really stupid and cheesy.Even though this movie is kind of serious,there are some dumb moments that feel very out of place and take away from scenes that should be serious.The action,it runs a bit too short,and feels very repetitive,there's some shooting,and then too many explosions,excluding the climax.In the end,Collateral Damage has good villains and some good twists,but suffers from weak action,and bad scripting.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Arnold Schwarzenegger's filmography in order, I come to Collateral Damage.Plot In A Paragraph: After his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, a firefighter (Arnie) goes in search of the man responsible.Like with End Of Days and The 6th Day, I have never cared to revisit this movie, since my first viewing. After watching it now, I remember why!! I know reediting of the movie after 9/11 will be to blame for some of it, but the movie is a mess. Arnies happy family man acting is again painful to watch, the man just can't act happy!! It's just too forced!! In his autobiography Total Recall, Arnie says how the movie was meant to be released on 5th of October 2001. But after 9/11 it's release was cancelled and the movie reedited, to delete an airline hijacking amongst other things. When it was finally released, he said it felt irrelevant and called it painful to watch. Collateral Damage ended the year the 66th highest grossing movie of 2002, with a domestic gross of $40 million.

FilmBuff1994 Collateral Damage is a good movie with a good set up but definitely could have been so much better than it ended up being.Arnold Schwarzenegger and Francesca Neri both put in a good performances but the rest of the cast really don't deliver.My biggest problem with the movie was the character development,mainly Gordy's son and wife,I knew going in to this movie that they were going to die,but we should have gotten to know a bit about them before they get killed,they literally die after two scenes of the movie,and then Schwarzenegger spends the rest of the movie seeking revenge because of the death of two people we weren't given enough time to care about.The twist at the end is very good and unexpected,you definitely won't see it coming,I won't say what happens, but the way Gordy finds out didn't make any sense.If your a big fan of Schwarzenegger,you should probably check it out for his sake,but Collateral Damage is not an action or drama I would highly recommend. After his wife and son are killed after a terrorist attack at their local mall,Gordy Brewer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) will not rest until he finds the people who killed his loved ones.

FlashCallahan Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to The Wolf. Frustrated with the investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice, Brewer takes matters into his own hands and tracks his quarry ultimately to Colombia.....After the horrific events in New York, this film was always going to fail. But it's not the film, nor anyone involved with the films fault. It was just plain bad timing.Take these specific elements away, and what you have is Arnold's best film of the noughties. There isn't many to choose from, but compared to The Sixth Day, and Terminator 3, this is really good stuff.What I believed irked many though was the fact that this wasn't The old Arnold we knew and loved. Gone were the one liners, gone were the muscle bound antics and Arnold being invulnerable, this was a step in a totally different direction, and it drove many away.The premise is pure Schwarzeneggar, but with such a tough subject matter, you can't really have a grieving father and husband quipping in every instance.The support are fantastic, Curtis is on form as usual, and Tutorro and Leguizamo make some bizarre but good cameos.it's not the action film you would expect from star and director, but it's a solid thriller, with a great performance from Arnold.Just don't expect the man from the eighties.