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Rating:  -
Sometimes a movie sticks in my mind because of one particular scene, and in this case, it's when Travolta's character whacks his loud, angry financier in the windpipe with a metal baton to shut his nonstop, screaming piehole for good. Great scene, very satisfying.
Rating:  -
Simple, ancient. It is that steel vs. Steal. Nice gun HWY 1 2915 20408 you did well for now. And as for the future it just left us behind. A good Scenario. But America no earth. I hold the keys to your future.
Rating: -
This may be the first time John Travolta played a bad guy. John, has stolen a nuke and intends to use it for ransom. Christian Slater discovers the plot and takes it before he can get away. The movie focuses on John chasing Christian to get the bomb back. Good acting and good action sequences. If your up late and can't sleep this is the ticket.
Rating:  -
Broken Arrow is meant to be a high impact thriller with in house terrorism and a good vs. evil mindset. It is meant to be a movie that is exciting and adventurous. What it is rather, is a laughable attempt at all these things. John Travolta is always accomplished in the role he plays, and this is no different. What is truly hilarious is former professional football player Howie Long also having a part as one of the rogue bad guys. Long may be in the hall of fame and have a Superbowl ring as one of the greatest Lineman to ever play the game, but his talents stop there. All this guy does is bring a brute look to the screen, complete with signature flat top haircut. The script got hacked a lot on this one because he has few lines and even when he tries to act intense when saying them during some fight scenes, he comes off more as someone who really does not belong in a movie at all.
That is not the main problem with this film though. Broken Arrow is doomed from the start with an improbable situation that in real life, whether it is pre or post 9/11, just would not happen like that. A scene of a warhead launching out of a moving train and just knocking the guy out into the air who was standing in front of it was ridiculous. Any missile of this size needs a massive amount of burst behind it, and the flames alone would have fried him anyway. Beyond that, a human body really is nothing more than a sack of water, and in real life this guy would have been in several pieces before the rocket had traveled a minimal distance.
The hero is Hale who is played by Christian Slater. Hale tries to thwart Vic Deakins (Travolta) and his master plan of hijacking two nuclear warheads to sell for profit. Slater is not bad but his partner in crime is, and that is Terry Carmichael (played by Samantha Mathis) who is a park ranger. She just happens to come across all this high action desert dueling while on the job. Mathis is lovely and an accomplished actress but her character is way, way to ridiculous to the point of laughable. Many times she seems to know how to dodge bullets and a scene depicted in slow motion of her running down a canyon ravine while being threatened by a helicopter had me rolling on the floor.
Travolta's character is by far the most likeable, with witty one-liners and a diabolical outlook that has no mercy. Beyond that, it pales even to other films of a similar kind like Con Air (Unrated Extended Edition) or another Travolta favorite of mine called Face/Off. A lot of build up was put into this movie upon it's initial release and even though it claimed some fame at the time, to view it now is nothing but a waste of precious time.
Rating:  -
everyone should burn this dvd. Horrible acting, slow, moronic script, lackluster dialouge, Travolta is truly second rate B actor in this, Slater is appalling as per usual, (with the exception of Pump Up the Volume, which I found rather delicious as a feel good film)
The film just doesn't go anywhere, it's a movie you forget about a week later after you watch it. It is simply a 'fair' film, with frosh dialouge from a liberal arts major at a state college. In this reviewers opinion, it is probably in the top twenty or so worst acting films in the cinemas history. No emotion, no depth, a zero star. Horrendously crafted. It is as bad, or as comparable to 'Con Air', and we all know how truly pathetic that was.
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