

COLLATERAL damaged
Q: What does Hollywood do to good writers? A: Bribes them to ignore their better story-telling senses. How else can I explain what has become of Stuart Beattie, whose script for COLLATERAL is one of my favorites? Since then, he has written the titularly-prescient DERAILED, GI JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA and now, I, FRANKENSTEIN, which he has directed, as well. With COLLATERAL, Beattie used a genre film to explore meaningful thematic content with emotionally complex characters, eve