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NUMBERS
Box Office: $39,965,988
VHS Rentals: $13,290,000
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CONSENSUS
Despite its timely subject matter, Collateral Damage is an unexceptional and formulaic action thriller.
CAST & CREW
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri
Directed by Andrew Davis
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
R, violence and some language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 45 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 8, 2002
Video: Jul 30, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Action, Terrorism, Military, Revenge, Kidnapping, Terrorists
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Collateral Damage Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Collateral Damage finally delivers the goods for Schwarzenegger fans."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "Like the excruciating End of Days, Collateral Damage presents Schwarzenegger as a tragic figure, but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
"Amidst the action, the script carries Arnold (and the viewers) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the "other side of the story.""
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"I'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - Arnold is not, nor will he be, back."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"It's about as convincing as any other Arnie musclefest, but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insultingly simplistic."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Holds limited appeal to those who like explosions, sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"Any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment."
-- Ross Brooks, CITYSEARCH
"At a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is, Collateral Damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"A relative letdown."
-- Nick Carter, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Enough similarities to Gymkata and Howie Long's Firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
""Collateral Damage" may seem slightly more
relevant today, but in the end, an average action movie is an average action
movie."
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"...unbearably lame."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"While it certainly would not hold an aura of freshness in any climate, on the fairly unpretentious terms on which it operates, the film does what it sets out to do."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
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"Lástima por Schwarzenegger, pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones."
-- Jorge Avila Andrade, MOVIOLA
"Its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock (since Sept. 11)."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"A clumsily manufactured exploitation flick, a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"A sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"...will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks. After seeing the film, I can tell you that there's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"Yet another Arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate use of his particular talents."
-- Shay Casey, DAILY-REVIEWS
"I don’t feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served, even if it’s a dish that’s best served cold."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"“Collateral Damage” goes by the numbers and reps decent action entertainment – until the silly showdown ending that forces the viewer to totally suspend disbelief"
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"While it certainly would not hold an aura of freshness in any climate, on the fairly unpretentious terms on which it operates, the film does what it sets out to do."
-- Michael Dequina, FILM THREAT
"A well-made thriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary morality."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
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ROTTEN 21%
Avg. Rating: 4.9/10 |
"Collateral Damage is, despite its alleged provocation post-9/11, an antique, in the end. As are its star, its attitude and its obliviousness."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Ah-nuld's action hero days might be over."
-- Larry Aydlette, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"A glossy knock-off of a B-movie revenge flick."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"The problem isn't that the movie hits so close to home so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of Schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Without September 11, Collateral Damage would have been just another bad movie. Now it's a bad, embarrassing movie."
-- Paul Clinton, CNN
"The movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary, and on both sides it falls short."
-- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"A skillfully made example of your typical Schwarzenegger action film."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The result is an 'action film' mired in stasis."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Collateral Damage is trash, but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"This is the sort of burly action flick where one coincidence pummels another, narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse, and whatever passes for logic is a factor of the last plot device left standing."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
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"Collateral Damage offers formula payback and the Big Payoff, but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks, pyro-correctly."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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