Collateral Damage

A Film Review By Paul Perkins

A Classic Arnold Movie With Great Action

Because of the tragic events that happen on Sept 11 Hollywood postponed two films that deals with terrorist. Big Trouble that will be out later this year and this week new release called Collateral Damage and stars action superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger. 

Collateral Damage is about a L.A Fireman  (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who is dedicated to his job and his family he has a wife who is a nurse they have a son. The son gets sick so his mom goes to the doctor and wants his father to meet them and pick them up. So when he get there he see a police officer who act strangely right before he get to the step of the office building. 

A Bomb blows up and killing and wounding a lot of people which two of the dead is his wife and son. So grieving with sadness, anger and rage he wants justice for his love one. But the government has other idea to do the people involved. But what they don’t know yet is that the fireman seen the man who did it all. His terrorist name is called The Wolf, so if the government won’t catch him and bring him to justice. 

H Decides he will get his own justice and set out to hunt The Wolf down and kill him as he is on a mission and nobody is going to stop him. 

For the family of loves ones who lost their lives on Sep 11, this is a hard film to watch because of the subject matter. The film itself is very good and it shows a father who lost his family fight to get revenge on the one who kill them. These types of film we seen a lot lately. The action scenes were very good as the story and dialogue was good. Which sometimes in action films there are not that good. But here they are, they kill the bad guys in the film in a strange way with a snake. I am not going to say what they did with the snake you got to see I never see that in a action film before. 

The acting was good I was surprise by the acting and the story. Esp. by Arnold he did a great job in the film and this is a classic Arnold film like some of his older film he was great in like Commando and Predator. The ending of the film was good with a good twist to it. It was kind of a typical Hollywood ending but believe me it was still good. 

Overall I was surprise by Collateral Damage it had everything good movies have great action, acting, story. You will get you money worth if you are looking for a non-stop action film look no further than Collateral Damage.

© 2002 Paul Perkins

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