To me, this movie is perfection.

Just perfect...

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Collateral Damage (2002) is one of the most decent Schwarzenegger action flicks. The story worked for me, Cliff Curtis was good as the villain, Arnold was great, the twist at the end was nice, the action scenes were fun, and altogether I think it's a very solid movie.For me, Collateral Damage & End of Days are the only Schwarzenegger movies where he actually gives a acting performance. I think both of the films are very underrated and bashed for their credits for it. This one is the 7h movie that in my opinion are his best movies and Collateral Damage is one of them. It is my favorite best movie that I absolutely love. Collateral Damage is above average action thriller very underrated from the early 2002 people just hate this movie I loved it, This movie rules!Great movie if you like Arnold Schwarzenegger I would recommend this movie if you like a lot of action packed scenes and explosions. Collateral damage is very good movie and entertaining. I love the twist! "You cannot take the law into your own hands."While The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and Collateral Damage may not be classic examples of art imitating life and vice versa, the real-life attacks did put a temporary halt to the film's scheduled October 2001 release. And certainly, the film does share a few primary similarities with that day. Collateral Damage's hero is a firefighter, and a terror attack in a major U.S. city -- Los Angeles to be exact -- leads to panic and the main character's own struggles with loss and a thirst for revenge. But otherwise, director Andrew Davis' (Above the Law) Collateral Damage plays as a fun and superficially routine Action flick that's full of explosions and gunfire but that goes above and beyond the call of duty, crafting a surprisingly deep plot, one with a rather heavy emotional undercurrent -- even beyond the loss of the main characters' family -- and a few quality twists and turns that keep the movie fresh and its landscape always evolving. While this may not be the quintessential Action movie -- it's no Die Hard -- or even the finest flick to Andrew Davis' name, this is a good, high quality, high yield Action movie, and as is always the case with a Schwarzenegger film, it's well worth seeing if only for the star's presence, energy, and charisma. Firefighter 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 Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini. Frustrated with the official 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 his family is killed by a terrorist act, a firefighter goes in search of the one responsible.I love this Action flick How Arnold went on his own in to the jungle of Colombia to find the terrorists responsible for his family murder. I find this very Entertained action film for a Schwarzenegger fan like me. I love this film and I have always enjoy it. Collateral Damage is so much better film than Terminator Genisys ,Maggie or Sabotage were. I don't care about the new movies Arnold is doing today they are all crap, Escape Plan and The Last Stand are his last films that were really good to watch, the rest of the films he did weren't. Arnold stop making such a bad films this days please! I love the action scenes the explosion in all movies Arnold kills the bad guys with guns and knives. In this film he uses plastic explosives and his intelligent skills. The end and the twist was fantastic the action scenes were just perfect. This film isn't above average so stop hating on it. The film tells the story of Los Angeles firefighter, Gordon Brewer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who looks to avenge his son and wife's death at the hands of a guerrilla commando, by traveling to Colombia and facing his family's killers. I disagree with all the haters of this film including Stan Goff this film is not horrible. Terminator Genisys , Sabotage and Maggie are far worst films than Collateral Damage is. Collateral Damage is a 2002 American action film directed by Andrew Davis, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo and John Turturro. The film was released in the United States on February 8, 2002.8/10 Grade: B Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo, John Turturro Director: Andrew Davis Producers: Hawk Koch, Nicholas Meyer Writers: David Griffiths, Ronald Roose Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 48 Mins. Released: February 8, 2002 Budget: $85 Million Box Office: $78,382,433

Collateral Damage (2002): Dir: Andrew Davis / Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo: Refers to the absent-minded attitude often regarded towards victims of tragedy. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a firefighter who witnesses his wife and son become victims of an explosion that was meant for a public figure. He awakens in a hospital after being struck by a car then realizes that he had spoken to the terrorist briefly before the incident. He ventures to Columbia with vengeance in mind resulting in a complete lack of common decency. A sequence where Schwarzenegger goes down a waterfall looks too lame for words. Director Andrew Davis showed great skill when he made The Fugitive but here he rushes too quickly into action scenes. Schwarzenegger grunts and groans his way through complete absurdity before emerging as the hero. Elias Koteas is cardboard as a cop. Francesca Neri plays the terrorist's wife. Cliff Curtis plays the terrorist whose prime focus is to be Schwarzenegger's punching bag before the film's end. John Leguizamo appears to be part of his worst film since The Pest. Whatever the so-called message may be, this film exists primarily to showcase implausible action and as much violence as one film can possibly contain. The result is a film that should suffer collateral damage. Score: 1 / 10

I love Arnold he is one of the best action hero in the world specially in terminator series even commando is better then this any day i saw this film last year got disappointed there are several reasons for it too.First of all the film totally fails to excite the viewer in almost every way possible the pace is extremely slow the action comes too late in the climax but also lame the story is repeated many times the project could have been executed better but script does not have much depth this is where it falls short the characters are running wild.The Plot:Gordy Brewer is a firefighter who is coming to meet his family but an incident happens they get killed in bomb blast in the city he decides to go to Columbia & finish the bad guys who are responsible for it.The Cast:Arnold looks out of shape uninterested but still gives his best as for Farencesca Neri she is one hot lady that got me hooked long enough until the credits roll.This came out in 2002 but filmed earlier this is even below average level then a Steven Segal movie to be honest,Arnold can be seem in unnecessary explosions & a cheesy climax tunnels exploding plus a hilarious looking villain i wanted to turn this film off but kept watching only for Arnold i wonder why he did this collateral damage took itself way seriously then it was this is the most boring Arnold Schwarzenegger film i have ever seen Andrew Davis directed under siege 1992 but the sequel is much better other then that none of the films he directed later created a solid impact neither on critics or audience.Overall Collateral Damage 2002 is only for die hard Arnold fans nothing more my rating is 2/10:Skipp It

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.