Collateral Damage

Director: Andrew Davis

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/07/2009
UPC:	0883929031979
Original Release:	2002
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Time:	1:49:00
Sales rank:	10,171

Special Features

Commentary by director Andrew Davis; 2 featurettes: The making of Collateral Damage and The Hero in a New Era: Reflections on Collateral Damage; Additional scenes; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Arnold Schwarzenegger	Gordy Brewer
Elias Koteas	Peter Brandt
Francesca Neri	Selena
Cliff Curtis	Claudio (The Wolf)
John Leguizamo	Felix
Miguel Sandoval	Phipps
Harry J. Lennix	Dray
John Turturro	Armstrong
Michael Milhoan	Jack
Lindsay Frost	Anne Brewer
Ray Cruz	Junior
Tyler Garcia Posey	Mauro
Jay Acovone	Bennie
Todd Allen	FBI agent
Pedro Altamirano	Fisherman
J. Kenneth Campbell	Coonts
Victor Carpinteiro	Carlos
Greg Collins	Agent #3
Norm Compton	Brandt's Bodyguard
Pedro Damien	Guerrilla Motorista aka River Rat
Daniel Friedman	Helicopter pilot #2
Rick Garcia	CNN Anchor
Jane Lynch	Agent Russo
Madison Mason	Undersecretary Shrub
Rodrigo Obregon	Rodrigo
Nicholas Pryor	Senator Delich
Bruce Ramsay	Brandt's Aide
Salvador Sanchez	Peddler
Millie Slavin	Secretary of state
Jorge Zepeda	Rocha
Michael Cavanaugh	Chairman Paul Devereaux
Jack Conley	Forensic specialist
Don Fischer	Paramedic
Penny Griego	Jenni Luz
Rick Worthy	Ronnie
Flor Edwarda Gurrola	Teenage girl
Jsu Garcia	Roman
Gerardo Albarran	Jorge
Omar Ayala	Boatman
Louis Bernstein	Hot Dog Vendor
Ehecatl Chavez	Augustine
Esteban Cueto	Estaban
Ethan Dampf	Matt Brewer
Ronald Donahue	Bomb Squad
Doralicia	Hysterical woman
Jossara Jinaro	Rosetta
Marianne Lewis	Agent Davis
Clint E. Lilley	Buzz Cut
Shelley Malil	Doctor
Enrique Munoz	Captain Miguel
Raul Pozos	Ernesto
Joe Rentaria	Safe House Guerrilla
Fernando Sarfati	Federale
Natalia Traven	Lita
John Varea	Ortiz
Robert "Bobby Z" Zajonc	Helicopter Pilot #1

Technical Credits

Andrew Davis	Director
Adam Greenberg	Cinematographer
J. Tom Archuleta	Asst. Director
Myron Baker	Costumes/Costume Designer
Claudia Becker	Casting
Lowell D. Blank	Associate Producer
Terry Bowen	Camera Operator
Susana Campos	Costumes/Costume Designer
Rocio Ceja	Costumes/Costume Designer
Mitchell Dauterive	Associate Producer
David Foster	Producer
David Dietch	Costumes/Costume Designer
William M. Elvin	Asst. Director
Ron Epstein	Special Effects
Enrique Estevez	Set Decoration/Design
Marc Fisichella	Art Director
Anna Fleiner	Makeup
Gerardo Moreno Flores	Stunts
David Foley	Costumes/Costume Designer
Santiago Navarrete Garcia	Camera Operator
Cathy Sandrich Gelfond	Casting
Sergio Jara Gonzalez	Special Effects
Jerry Grandey	Asst. Director
Peter Griffiths	Original Story,Screenwriter
David Griffiths	Original Story,Screenwriter
Adrian Grunberg	Asst. Director
Jose Luis Montero Gutierrez	Costumes/Costume Designer
Greg Hall	Costumes/Costume Designer
Zeferino Gutierrez Hernandez	Costumes/Costume Designer
Carlos Hildalgo	Asst. Director
Dov Hoenig	Editor
Hugo Santiago	Set Decoration/Design
William B. Kaplan	Sound Mixer
To Knott	Special Effects
Hawk Koch	Executive Producer
Kenneth A. Larson	Set Decoration/Design
Louis Lazzara	Makeup
Amanda Mackey-Johnson	Casting
Luis Eduardo Ambriz Martinez	Special Effects
Joe McCloskey	Costumes/Costume Designer
Nicholas Meyer	Executive Producer
Erick Monroy	Set Decoration/Design
Richard Reseigne	Art Director
Steven E. Reuther	Producer
Graeme Revell	Score Composer
Raul Sarmiento Rina	Makeup
Art Rochester	Sound Mixer,Sound/Sound Designer
Ronald Roose	Original Story
Philip Rosenberg	Production Designer
Thomas Roysden	Set Decoration/Design
John Schimmel	Co-producer
Robert L. Slater	Special Effects
Teresa Tucker-Davies	Associate Producer
Larry Velasco	Costumes/Costume Designer
Dennis Virkler	Editor
Theresa Wachter	Art Director
Tim Walston	Sound/Sound Designer
Glenn Williams	Set Decoration/Design

Editorial Reviews

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.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse

Andrew Davis certainly knows how to craft an action sequence and there's one right up front during the opening credits of this Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle that indicates the director's talent for visual storytelling. It's a building fire from which an elderly victim must be rescued, and in post-terrorist attack America, the sight of firefighters risking their lives to save others is a moment that will either leave one choked up or cheering. Sadly, the film oddly deflates after that, reminding us all that Davis has followed up his nifty The Fugitive (1993) with well-mounted dross such as Steal Big, Steal Little (1995) and Chain Reaction (1996). This film was release-delayed in the wake of the Twin Towers attack, its firefighter hero and terrorist plot considered too painfully close to home, but it won't remind anybody of September 11th, it will make them think they've been transported back to the 1980s, when audiences liked the fact that Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis flexed their arms a lot more than their acting muscles. What is amazing about this revenge fantasy is how relevant it isn't; it's the retro, white man's retribution of Death Wish (1974), gussied up with a veneer of modern geopolitics, but it can't hide the fact that it's the same old Arnold, mealy-mouthed Teutonic accent fully intact, that unspooled in such so-bad-it's-good, high-octane entertainments as Commando (1985) and Raw Deal (1986). Except that it truly isn't the same world as it was in the escapist, saber-rattling '80s, and the whole spectacle just feels phonier, emptier, and dumber than ever before. For one thing, the lead's wife and child don't share the screen long enough to actually become characters, muting his sense of loss and serving only as cynical catalysts for carnage. Real life certainly did intrude on the potential success of Collateral Damage (2002), but in the opposite manner of what the filmmakers feared. Their movie leaves an audience feeling not more than it should, but a whole lot less.

All Movie Guide - Karl Williams

A skillfully made example of your typical Schwarzenegger action film.

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

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

Boston Globe

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