Collateral Damage (2002)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2002
	Director: Andrew Davis (Above the Law, Under Siege, The Fugitive)
	Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator), John Leguizamo (Summer of Sam, Land of the Dead), Francesca Neri (Hannibal), John Turturro (O'Brother, Transformers 1-3), Cliff Curtis (Blow, Fracture, The Last Airbender)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 20.12.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: After a terrorist attack, events will compell a firefighter (Schwarzenegger) to look for the responsibles by himself.
Review: After making this movie, Schwarzy did Terminator 3 to which he was attached contractually, and then almost dissapeared from the Movie scene for the eight years of his Governorship of California. Thus it was the last opportunity to see him play a human before about a decade! Unfortunately this movie about terrorist attacks was about to be released end of 2001, but after the 9/11 events it was pulled out, editied differently and release in 2002. Even though, Schwarzenegger writes in his autobiography Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story (soon to be reviewed on this blog): "when Collateral Damage debuted the following February, it felt both irrelevant and painful to watch in the light of the recent events". Indeed the movie starts pretty well with good screenplay (although classical) and good ideas. I found Schwarzenegger's acting very good for this role which is not one of a trained killer for once. A bunch of known actors make you feel at ease, like John Turturro around the middle of the movie that introduces some comedy to release the tension. On the down side, some special effects look terribly cheap and more importantly in the third act of the movie you feel the absence of the scenes that have been edited out, and the conclusion feels strange and unfinished. It is still OK to watch, but not as good and ambitious as it could have been.
Rating: 5 /10