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Completed before September 11th but given added resonance by the events of that tragic day, Collateral Damage pits a Los Angeles firefighter (action megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger) against a multinational terrorist, with predictably explosive results. In this thriller directed by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive) with his characteristic panache, a Colombian terrorist known as "El Lobo" (the Wolf) takes out an enemy with a bomb at an L.A. office building -- just as Gordon Brewer (Schwarzenegger) is arriving to meet his wife and young son at a nearby café. When his family perishes before his eyes and his government gives him the runaround, Brewer decides to go on a little Wolf hunt -- shrugging off the warnings of a duplicitous federal agent (Elias Koteas) whose own Wolf quest is a somewhat more complex matter. Davis then treats us to a mini-remake of Apocalypse Now, painstakingly depicting Brewer’s arduous trip upriver through Panama to the terrorists’ hidden camp. At age 55, Arnold isn’t quite as vigorous or indestructible as he once seemed, and the director works his star’s real-life limitations into the film’s numerous hand-to-hand confrontations. Action sequences are still teeth-rattling, in the best Schwarzenegger tradition, and the pulse-pounding finale provides a suitably incendiary demise for the bad guys. Wildly improbable yet viscerally satisfying, Collateral Damage won’t disappoint Arnold’s loyal fans. Davis supplies a commentary on the DVD, which also includes an HBO "First Look" program, a newly shot documentary entitled "The Hero in a New Era," and deleted scenes. Ed Hulse

All Movie Guide

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. 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

Chicago Sun-Times

A skillfully made example of your typical Schwarzenegger action film. Roger Ebert

Boston Globe

Schwarzenegger at 55 -- in a shirt and khakis, and serving homemade knuckle sandwiches -- is decidedly dress-casual for the proceedings. He's still a rock, but it seems you can squeeze blood and tears from this stone. Wesley Morris

Product Details

• UPC: 883929031979
• Source: WARNER HOME VIDEO
• Presentation: Wide Screen
• Time: 1:49:00
• Sales Rank: 30,004

This DVD is also available as part of a box set:

• Collateral Damage / Eraser

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