Collateral Damage.......

[Ash]

I've only seen this film once in the theater in February.  I was wondering if anyone noticed something in it.  Remember when the bomb goes off in the beginning and Arnie is thrown into the air?  If I remember correctly it shows a shot of him hitting the left side of his forehead in slow motion on the pavement.  For the entire rest of the movie the cut from it is on the right side of his forehead!!  I thought this was a decent film but sitting in the theater the entire time I kept thinking about only that.  Others I've spoken to about this don't think so.  Like I said before it's been awhile since I saw it so my memory might be a bit hazy.  They think I'm wrong.  Am I right???

[Dano]

I did not notice that his cut switched sides, though I am ready to believe that.

I think I was too busy noticing that a big white fireman with a German accent who didn't speak a word of Spanish was infiltrating unnoticed into Columbia, into drug/rebel territory, into one of the drug compounds and right up to his targets' window (a target that the CIA couldn't even begin to locate) in like 3 days.

I have a question: Was the drug cartel scumbag in this Arnie movie the same guy who played the Islamic extremist scumbag in True Lies.  Haven't seen True Lies in an age, but I think it is him.

[systemcr4sh]

yeah I'm pretty sure its the same guy.
don't hold me to that tho, I'm too lazy to check on the IMDB :P

[Ash]

click on this link to see a pic of the villain on Collateral Damage played by Cliff Curtis.         http://us.imdb.com/Name?Curtis,%20Cliff                                                        

 The villain on True Lies is played by Art Malik.  They do look very similar.

[Steven Millan]

                     It's a really great movie from both Arnold and action revisionist director Andrew Davis,for Arnold never uses a gun,and is more like a MacGyver-type hero who uses his smarts and wits,not his muscle,to both outwit,and literally destroy the bad guys.                                                                                                                                                                                                  Also love that amazing twist ending,that not only ends with a literal blast,but gives away the secret indentity of who "The Wolf" 's identity really is(and I'm not telling it here,you have to see the film to find out!!).

[Neville]

Ha, ha, I'm gonna take the quoting thingy to new and disturbing levels...

Designated Hero (n): A character who we know the film regards as its ‘hero,’ even though he or she is not, in any objective sense, all that heroic. Designated Heroes usually get a ‘free from responsibility’ pass from the filmmakers, even when their actions result in mass deaths.

(From Ken Begg's Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension)

OK, I enjoyed the film, but because I had plenty of laughs with it, and so did my friends. We have an amateur avenger who travels to Colombia and infiltrates the guerrilla with a pass that apparently doesn't include a picture. Also, he ends up causing an astonishing number of deaths: a whole colombian village, several FBI agents and at least one security guard. No matter he doesn't kill them himself, it is quite sure this deaths are the result of his actions. And is he arrested at the end of the movie? No! They still treat him as a hero! Couldn't believe what I was watching!

Highlights:

- Arnold being recognised in a satellite pic for his size!

- Arnold using the Mike Tyson attack. The whole theatre explode into laughter with this, I swear.

- Arnold ignoring the gun from the death security agent to use an axe instead. Ah, the symbolism...