Collateral Damage: Critic Reviews

The result is an 'action film' mired in stasis.

Grotesquely dishonest.

Schwarzenegger tries hard to act but in the end the foolishness of the thriller formula becomes ridiculous.

A stinker.

It will be remembered less for its generic content than for the real-life events that give it an eerie resonance.

Ugly, predictable and dumb as dirt.

Schwarzenegger in very violent vigilante film.

Straining every muscle not to offend, Collateral Damage counts basic coherence among its own casualties. But it's crystal clear on one point: Taking mercy on the "enemy," women and children included, is for wimps.

Schwarzenegger's Brewer remarks, 'If I don't do it, it seems no one else will,' but that's a lousy excuse for...a multi-million dollar mistake like this one. [Blu-ray]

...the studio didn't make it for any particular political purpose; it's basically just a stock, action-revenge flick, typical of Big Arnold.

A competent Schwarzenegger action movie that will appeal to the nostalgic.

The plot is laughably bad, and the action not much better.

The film's less knee-jerk than it could have been.

Diverting popcorn entertainment.

Judged purely as a piece of escapist popcorn fun, Collateral Damage only barely passes muster.

... Time may be running out for Arnold the action hero.

Apparently, it's relatively easy for a 6-foot tall, musclebound, non Spanish-speaking white guy to penetrate the depths of the Colombian guerilla-controlled jungle

The whole South American adventure looks so forced you half expect Schwarzenegger to break into a travel programme piece to camera.

Rule of thumb: if Arnold Schwarzenegger is the smartest person in a movie, you've got problems.

All in all, "Collateral Damage" is entertaining in all the ways a Schwarzenegger film is expected to: bad guys do him dirty, Arnold's character vows revenge, lots of things blow up, and the bad guys get theirs... a more intense actor would have carried it

An entertaining action movie, nothing more, nothing less.

This simplistic good and evil concept has long been a staple of Hollywood. What is more worrying is that it now appears to constitute American foreign policy.

Loud, noisy, piece of garbage.

In a world where the cost of real violence and the sacrifices of real heroes are inescapable reality, there is no connection to be made with the empty, ersatz heroics of a movie like this.

Bound to be remembered (if at all) as one of Schwarzenegger's lesser vehicles.