When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
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Totally slept on. Woo spent a lot of his American career being chastised for not being constant crazy-go-nuts, as if he was duty-bound by US studio budgets to present us with a feature-length version of the last 15 minutes of THE KILLER, as if the majors would ever allow him such a thing.
So then, stung by the production and ratings difficulties on HARD TARGET, he deliberately set out to westernize with this one, trading gunfights and cities for wide-open Utah desert (totally a poor man's Monument Valley here) and all the helicopters he cared to detonate. Inexplicably rejected to this day as a misstep, this is absolutely Woo's film, if not in particular strain of mayhem then certainly in…
"I say god-damn what a rush."
Broken Arrow was a dumb, fun distraction. Low-tier Woo but he still stages some really cool over-the-top action sequences, John Travolta is nuts & having fun and everything in between was just OK. This movie would be so much better if Nic Cage was in it instead of Christian Slater.
"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?"
Probably the greatest film ever made.
Lightweight but fun overblown action nonsense from John Woo. The set up is basic; rogue air force agent steals two nuclear warheads in the Utah desert, and the only people that can stop him are his former partner and a plucky local policewoman. It starts simple and stays simple, but it basically doesn't stop once it gets going. There's a constant stream of action and it's good fun. Everything about this is completely overblown to ridiculous levels - not least the overdramatic score from Hans Zimmer and total scene chewing villainy from John Travolta. Christian Slater doesn't quite have the chops to ham it up enough next to Travolta, which is a bit of a shame - with someone a…
I have seen this movie loads of times, but this is the first time that I have noticed the weird Coca-Cola product placement moment. It is not the product placement that is weird, it is how the scene is laid out. It opens with Travolta turning his back to everyone else in the scene and walking towards one of their jeeps. When he turns, it is like he is looking straight into the camera, though it is hard to tell because he is wearing sunglasses. He is then like "Can I get you a Coke or something" and he opens a cooler in the back of the jeep and takes out a can of Coca-Cola. I watched the scene multiple…
Action! - What Does The Dove Say? Woo Woo Woo Woo!
While this may seem blasphemous to some, for a movie with so many expectations, I was quite underwhelmed by the final product.
However, that does not mean the movie itself is boring. Despite the trite intentions which make you roll your eyes, Travolta brings his strong acting skills to bear on Thais generic villain, and you can tell that the actor is having fun while doing it. It’s just infectious. Slater makes for a good hero whose charm and personality is enough to get you invested in his story, but Samantha Mathis can feel forced (even if she did get to be a badass on that whole train sequence),…
I've been on a mini-Christian Slater kick lately, which means all roads lead back here. I've severely underrated "Broken Arrow" in the past and it might be for the simple/dumb reason that there's never really a scene where Christian Slater gets to dive through the air while firing dual pistols at an entire warehouse's worth of henchmen, meaning this is a different kind of John Woo film than "Hard Target" or "Face/Off"—the script from "Speed" scribe Graham Yost lends itself to more of a chase movie and action/thriller with Western influences than a straight-forward shoot-em-up.
But we've reached a point in 2023 where these analog 90's action vehicles are an absolute tonic (my mind still reeling from the CG-by-numbers of…
This movie was my first exposure to John Woo and it still fuckin' cooks. John Travolta is testing out his unhinged persona, a formula he'd perfect in Woo's Face/Off. Christian Slater is charismatic! Samantha Mathis is down-to-earth and a believable badass! The cast is a who's who of character actors and the stuntwork is super impressive.
You can tell they did a lot of this shit practically, which is why so much of it holds up today. I felt like this movie didn't get its due back when it was released and still feel that way. Arguably Woo's most successful American work next to Face/Off.
"I say, goddamn what a rush!"
John Woo westernizes his direction and goes as full American Western as he can with the open Utah desert as the background for this nuclear Cowboys and Guns standoff that's a little more mainstream than his 1993 Woo Does Hollywood, Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer Hard Target.
This is pure mayhem through and through, all Woo all the way, even if it was viewed incorrectly as a sporadic, incoherent mess at the time. Travolta absolutely eats up Woo's film stock with his post-Pulp Fiction foray into the kind of villainy recently Oscar-nominated actors jump at for the paycheck and the fun.
So what if it's not the masterpiece that Face/Off is a year after this,…
(menacing zoom into Travolta's eyes)
The first R-rated film I ever saw.
John Woo delivers an action film in the American mould without comprising his style. It even wraps up with a boxing match. USA! USA! USA!
Christian Slater is a bland lead, but Samantha Mathis gets a lot to do, and this is 100% the John Travolta show. There's a reason he's the biggest face on the poster. Johnny hams it up like there's no tomorrow, deliciously spitting out each line, and making a meal out of every precious on-screen second.
It all takes place over one day. There's no downtime. It's action beat after action beat filled with explosions, fun gags, and one hell of a train-set climax. Ends with a hug and handclasp.
It's nowhere near as good as John Woo's American masterpiece Hard Target (that's right, I said it, masterpiece), but it still contains a healthy doze of cheese to make it very entertaining. This has a lot less slow-motion then I remembered. Also, there are no doves? Like, what? What it does have though is John Travolta completely hamming it up saying some awesome lines. It's wild!
Oh, and explosions. There are also lots of explosions.
A super fun watch with Michelle.
