Broken Arrow Movie Review 1995

Air Force pilot Vic Deakins (Travolta) rips off a couple of nuclear weapons during a routine exercise over the Utah desert. Deakins' ex-co-pilot Riley Hale (Slater), with help from spunky park ranger Terry Carmichael (Mathis), sets out to find and retrieve the warheads before the big bang. Hong Kong action king Woo once again tries his hand at the big-budget Hollywood action extravaganza, with mixed results. Triple script whammy of cheesy dialogue, continuity problems, and predictability undercuts, but doesn't obscure, his talent for choreographing mayhem. Travolta plays the All-American Boy as creepily charming psychotic to great effect.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 108 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Air Disasters, Boom!, Meltdown, Psychotics/Sociopaths, Race Against Time, Trains, Deserts, Top Grossing Films of 1996

Screenplay

Graham Yost

Cast

John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Bob Gunton, Frank Whaley, Howie Long

Cinematography

Peter Levy

Director

John Woo

Music

Hans Zimmer

Producer

Mark Gordon, Bill Badalato, Christopher Godsick, Dwight Little, 20th Century-Fox