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Summary: FUN AND FAST
Review: FUN,LOADS OF ACTION .VERY FAST AND QUICK MOVING MOVIE . IT NEVER HAS A DULL MOMENT. I LOVE THIS MOVIE THE STARS IN IT ARE ALL GREAT IN THEIR ROLES ESPECIALLY TRAVOLTA!!!
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Summary: Travolta stands out
Review: Travolta is a great bad guy, a stone cold figure. Howie Long is impressive in his debut, and Slater plays the good guy surprisingly well
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Summary: Definitely a Grabber !
Review: Broken Arrow is all that you want from an action movie and what more if you have John Woo as the director. Travolta's cool 'n composed character is really impressive and you'll really like the background score for Travolta. In all, a damn good action movie !
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Summary: Great MST3K Movie.
Review: This film is so horrible that it is a perfect candidate to appear on Mystery Science Theater 3000. However, if you like to see poor special effects inserted into the story for no specific reason, this movie is for you.
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Summary: An action-packed adventure
Review: Normally I can't stand John Travolta, but Broken Arrow was an exception. I think he is a better villain than he is a hero. I saw this movie twice in row and taped it as well. The comic one liners and the characters played by Samantha Mathis and Christian Slater are funny and brave. The only element I think this film lacked was character development. Throughout the movie you know hardly anything about the three main characters, not even their first names. In fact two of the characters don't actually introduce themselves until the end. But don't let this get you down, Broken Arrow is still an excellent Friday night flick.
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Summary: A very enjoyable film,good acting from Travolta.Recommended
Review: A film with loads of action to kepp you entertained,it certainly kept me.A worthy addition to any decent movie watcher,being short of really spectacular kept it from the full five stars. Recommended.
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Summary: Stop hitting him!
Review: I found myself enjoying this movie, and it absolutely flew by. It was fast paced, and while there were the rare slow moments, you were never constantly looking at the clock in the dark, trying to figure out what time it is. The only problem I had with the film was how Christian Slater constantly was the one everyone seemed to want to beat up. No way. Over my dead body first. It was also written by Graham Yost (Speed) - so that's a good thing right?
There was a bit of a hassle trying to actually watch this movie. When I got lent it, I got home, all excited about watching it, switched on my DVD player, opened the DVD case - and bam, no disc. After much checking my bag, checking the case, to check it hadn't suddenly appeared, and checking the booklet insert thing (it's bendy, so I'm guessing it's not in there!), and much hunting around the owner's home (open your eyes, it has to be somewhere), which consequently led to ME being blamed for losing/breaking/making it vanish into thin air. So now I've been bought a copy, while the owner still has an empty case. (If he thinks I'm keeping it, he's got another thing coming - especially since he thinks I've lost it)
After settling down to watch it, checking and double checking the disc was still there, I found myself enjoying the whole movie. I didn't like John Travolta as the 'bad' guy though - he seemed very camp about the whole thing, and it just doesn't suit him. He played almost the exact same character in Face Off. He speaks through gritted teeth when he's getting angry ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons"), which just emphasise the size of his teeth, and the way he smokes just annoys me. Just let the nicotine stain your fingers man and be done with it.
Christian Slater is really cute in this. It was 1995/6, so after seeing him recently, he doesn't have as much of a beer belly or is his hairline meeting his ass, and his hair in general is really nice. For people who say he's no good as the 'hero', they're wrong. The 'love' story between him and the park ranger girl (who looks constantly lost throughout) is totally unbelievable (like you're gonna fall in love with someone who you've a) just met and b) is putting you in the face of danger), and the exact same thing happened 2/3 years in Hard Rain, between Christian and Minnie Driver. It does not work.
There are at least 4 or 5 exploding helicopters, so John Woo was having loads of fun, quite literally blowing up his entire budget, on special effects, which aren't really that special.
Much of this is similar, or stolen, from other action movies, including Mission: Impossible, Speed, and Die Hard. There are probably many more. The plot is pretty much overused, and the dialogue isn't up too much (I wasn't really concentrating on that), and it revolves around a ticking timer - just like the bomb in Speed "if you go over 50mph, this bus will exploooooooooooddddddddeeeeeeeee". Thank you, thank you very much.
I really enjoyed this movie, and I will quite happily get my OWN copy, once I've stopped going mad on birthday presents. (I'm limited to one DVD a week, so I can go all out on birthdays - isn't that a shame?) Christian Slater is just divine. So I own True Romance, Robin Hood, and I've seen this and Hard Rain. What else is worth watching?
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Summary: Great Action Flick
Review: First let me get this out of the way: I'm not what you'd call a John Woo fan or affictionado. The only other movies I have seen by him are MI:2 and Face/Off, and all I can say is I'm not impressed. Of course, I'm very aware that MI:2 is often labled as one of his worst movies, but I digress.Having said that, I really like this movie. Of course, it's not Shakespeare, but if you rented this movie to see character development or a deep, unflinching gaze into the dark side of the human soul, you rented the wrong movie. Heck, you were probably in the wrong aisle to begin with.
All the actors play their parts very well. Travolta is the oh-so-cocky Major Deakins and Slater plays the straight-laced Captain Hale. Samantha Mathis is Terry Carmichael, the somewhat inexperienced park ranger caught in a crazy situation, and does a god job. The movie has a bunch of great one-liners and some really neat action sequences involving fights on top of a train, helicopter shoot-downs, a hummer chase across the desert, a shoot-out in a mine shaft, and a nuclear detonation. What more could one ask for? Sure, its got some noticeable plot holes (the really roomy B-3 cockpit, Mathis hiding under a blanket on the motor boat, the still incomprehensible bomb-arming sequences, etc), but they're not so big as to ruin the experience (which is more than I can say for either Face/Off or MI:2). Over all this is a fun little ride in the desert and definately what I expect an action film to be. A rip-roaring gunbattle with energetic characters, a couple of good jokes, wonderful special effects and beautiful scenery thrown in.
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Summary: More like 3 1/2 stars for a good action flick...
Review: Broken Arrow isn't my favorite action movie, but it never fails to be interesting. The plot puts a somewhat original spin on an overused idea, but the two leads (Travolta and Slater) are what keeps the movie entertaining. They may not dive into deep emotional connections with their characters, but they play their roles with an awareness of their target audience. This movie knows it's not a genius and it's not afraid to cover this up with exciting action scenes and cool one-liners.
There are plenty of mistakes though, like at the end when a gunshot wound to Travolta's arm dissapears in the next scene. But if you never saw this movie, and are looking for an action film with some flare and not necessarily a lot of intelligence then you'll almost certainly not hate this one.
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