Broken Arrow

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Summary: Generic.
Review: Well, the movie often is pretty funny. Christian Slater, John Travolta, and even Howie Long have cute bits to contribute. But this is a John Woo movie, and, man, where's the action! One little gunfight, and six or seven typical big explosions. Wow. Not anywhere near his usual standards.

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Summary: It is the best!
Review: John Travolta is awesome as the bad guy in this thriller of nuclear weapon theft.

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Summary: John Woo at his worst.
Review: now, i love john woo movies, but i hate this one with a passion. john woo, who has made the most coolest and mind blowing action movies made a oh we havent seen this before movie. this movie has been made 400 times. john woo is losing his style.

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Summary: very entertaining
Review: best line in the movie was "I don't know which is most disturbing, that we have lost a nuclear missile or the fact it happens so often we have a term for it."

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Summary: I loved this action packed movie, Travolta and Slater "WOW"
Review: I haved always loved the two of these guys and this movie just proves to me that these great guys are no exeption the best at what they do. Good job you two.

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Summary: Deja vu? THUNDERBALL!
Review: Broken Arrow is a virtual retread of the James Bond classic, Thunderball. In both movies, a criminal syndicate plots to steal two nuclear warheads and threaten the world. Broken Arrow doesn't even bother to change the number of warheads stolen. Like Thunderball, the bombs are stolen from a high-tech bomber by a pilot who is not what he seems(In Thunderball, the villainous agent was made into the image of the man with access to the bomber through surgery.). Also, the villain doesn't meet his demise in a hokey boxing match. Why does Travolta do this? He has a machine gun laying around somewhere, so why doesn't he kill Slater and get it over with? There is also the device for setting off the bomb. In Thunderball it looked like a cylinder. Broken Arrow replaced this with a cell-phone like remote. Nothing is developed. The reason I gave Thunderball....er..Broken Arrow three stars is because it is fun and nothing else.

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Summary: A beefed up B-Movie!
Review: This movie is a fast moving, leave your brain at the door, Fun fest. Travolta is a perfect ham as the wise cracking baddie. Slater is good as the good guy. All and all I was entertained by this thrill ride. Just remember folks, its an action movie not OSCAR CALIBER SOUL SEARCHING DRAMA.

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Summary: Arrow's premise not broke, but straight production is
Review: Broken Arrow is a strange kind of movie because its premise is sound enough--betrayal that results in nuclear blackmail. However, the manner in which it is carried out is very bland and very, well, straight. Straight is usually a coveted adjective for movies in this day and age when it takes months for production, except in this instance when some kind of unexpected, off-the-beaten path direction would have inhanced a rather bland movie in Broken Arrow. John Woo (who usually adds one break-neck, braintwister camera angle after another) is very restrained and conservative in his efforts with Broken Arrow. The only weirdness comes from the actors, particularly John Travolta. Travolta keeps things interesting as the cocky, but very quirky, turncoat Air Force pilot Deakins. Christian Slater is okay as the hero who must bring down Deakins. The supporting actors are a cast of virtual unknowns (the exception being ex-Raider Howie Long in an intentionally slow-witted performance as one of "Deke's" henchmen). Outside of Travolta and Slater, Broken Arrow isn't broke in its premise, just in its straight-down-the-line approach to what is supposed to be a perilous situation.

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Summary: If it's broken, fix it!
Review: What a boring and insipid action film this was! If John Woo is a brilliant action director, he wasn't brilliant here. John Travolta, in a fit of post-comeback arrogance, evidently thought that he could fart and it would tickle the audience, and a fart is just about what his performance is.

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Summary: Definately a must see movie
Review: This is one of my favourite movies. The non stop action and great one liners by Travolta made it very exciting. I think John Woo did a great job on this one.