Published at: Aug. 14, 2001, 6:45 p.m. CST by staff
Greetings, recovering Arnold fans! ROBOGEEK here with the trailer to his latest film.
Maybe it's just me, but over the last five years it's been harder and harder to remain a true fan of Arnold, given the fact he's starred in JINGLE ALL THE WAY, BATMAN & ROBIN, END OF DAYS and THE 6TH DAY... as opposed to, say... I AM LEGEND, CRUSADE and WITH WINGS AS EAGLES. (Can you imagine? Can you imagine?)
This year he stars in COLLATERAL DAMAGE, which (to me, at least) just looks like a movie I've seen before - and don't particularly care to see again.
In a nutshell, Arnold plays a beefier-than-thou everyman (named Gordon) who loses his wife and child to a terrorist, and then sets out on a path to revenge... only to become involved in the lives of the wife and child of the very same terrorist he's after (in Colombia).
What astonishing serendipity!
But wait... if I want to see a movie about serendipity, why don't I just go see SERENDIPITY - which also happens to open October 5th?
Anyway, COLLATERAL DAMAGE is directed by Andrew Davis, who made one really good movie (THE FUGITIVE), and... well, some other movies. However, the supporting cast includes Elias Koteas, John Leguizamo and John Turturro - all of whom I think are interesting, but have also been in their share of crap.
Furthermore, the film comes from Warner Bros., which isn't exactly having a great year. (For the first time in eleven years, they didn't have a film make over $100 million this summer - yet Lorenzo still has his job.) Will Arnold turn things around for them in two short months?
P.S.: Thanks as always to the awesome QuickTime Movie Trailer team at Apple for posting the trailer. (BTW, it's in "auto-detect" mode, so its size/resolution dependent on the connection speed listed in your QuickTime preferences; the better your connection, the better the trailer.)
