Taglines: Nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose.
Collateral Damage opens with LAFD firefighter Captain Gordon “Gordy” Brewer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his fellow firefighters rescues the people who trap inside the burning building. After they rescued the old woman, Brewer is caught in an explosion. Cut to a scene where Brewer teaches his son on how to play a toy plane and they plan to meet his son, Matt and wife, Anne in downtown Los Angeles. The wife and his son goes to the downtown and they wait for Brewer’s arrival.
Meanwhile the man (who later revealed as the terrorist) disguises as the police officer parks his police motorcycle in front of the Colombian Consulate and the convoy of Colombian officials and American intelligence agents arrive at the consulate. Brewer arrives at the place and he informs the man to pick up his family. As Brewer is about to pick up his family, the bomb in the police motorcycle explodes, killing nearby innocent civilians, the officials, and including his son and wife then Brewer is being hit by a taxi, injuring him.
Later, Brewer is traumatized when his family is killed in an explosion. The FBI states that 24 people injured, 9 people dead including those mention above and the explosion is a terrorism act. Brewer is brought to a hospital and removes some shrapnel out of his body. Suddenly, Brewer realize that the man who disguises as the police officer he met before an explosion is the responsible for the attack and the FBI officers tries to thwart him.
A tape is sent to the U.S. State Department, in which a man pretends as police officer calling himself “El Lobo” (The Wolf) claims responsibility for the bombing, explaining it was in retaliation for America’s oppression of Colombia. The FBI believes El Lobo is a Colombian terrorist named Claudio Perrini (Cliff Curtis), the man disguises as police officer who was there in an explosion.
At his home, Brewer receives a message on the phone from Ken Barnett of Lateline and he’s invited to tell his story about the incident at the studio and pounds the phone. Shortly, the news airs the videotape from El Lobo, claiming the responsibility of the explosion. Also, it claims that they bombed at least 7 places, including the most recent bombing is the Colombian Consulate in Los Angeles.
On the TV, we see only the terrorist in silhouette and lower-pitched voice saying that the bombing was an act of self-defense against American war criminals, also, if the Americans continue aggression towards the Colombian, they will bring war to them. The terrorist concludes that Colombia is not their country and has to get out now and make a gesture means “Sangre o Libertad” (“blood or freedom”). After that, Brewer becomes furious when the reporter mentions the killing of his family and Latin American Solitary Committee Mr. Ortiz calls “collateral damage”.
Brewer then breaks furiously inside the newsroom and begins wild and whacking anything with a baseball bat. A few minutes later, the FBI officers arrive and incapacitate him with an electric gun. Later, Brewer is brought to the FBI and he will not arrest him because Mr. Ortiz dropped the charges on him. Agent Phipps (Miguel Sandoval) ensures that The Wolf is back in Colombia.
Collateral Damage (2002)
Directed by: Andrew Davis
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Turturro, John Leguizamo, Elias Koteas, Raymond Cruz, Lindsay Frost, Miguel Sandoval
Screenplay by: Ronald Roose, David Griffiths, Peter Griffiths
Cinematography by: Philip Rosenberg
Costume Design by: James W. Tyson
Set Decoration by: Enrique Estévez
Art Direction by: Marc Fisichella, Richard Reseigne
Makeup Department: Jennifer Bell, Bridget Cook
Music by: Graeme Revell
MPAA Rating: R for violence and some language.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: February 8, 2002
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