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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   31,057 votes
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Director:
John Woo
Writer (WGA):
Graham Yost (written by)
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Release Date:
9 February 1996 (USA) more
Tagline:
Prepare to Go Ballistic
Plot:
Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the US military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Classic John Woo! more (157 total)

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong action violence and language.
Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Barstow, California, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Samantha Mathis plays Terry Carmichael, the love interest of Christian Slater's character Riley Hale. She also played the love interest of Slater's character in the movie Pump Up the Volume (1990). more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Obvious physics problems with the momentum of the bomb that impales Deakins. more
Quotes:
Giles Prentice: Just for the record, I'm not entirely a civilian. I was actually a lieutenant in the ROTC at Yale. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Basic (2003) more

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17 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Classic John Woo!, 18 November 2002
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Author: el_nickster from Washington, DC USA



If you want an action film in which the hero has a personality, and the bad guy has an even better personality, take a look at Broken Arrow. John Woo's choreographed action is not as dramatic as the Matrix-clone films that are so common today. He is great at creating interesting relationships between heroes and villains, and this film is a good example.

John Travolta is terrific. Christian Slater breaks typecast by playing a nice, sane soldier doing his duty. The love interest isn't an idiotic supermodel playing a nuclear scientist or something, but a park ranger, also doing her duty. She is cute, earthy, and actually believable.

If you want a film that will repeat every aspect of every other military adventure film you have ever seen, you will be disappointed. If dialog bores you, skip this film. If you like action movies filmed entirely in parking garages and spooky allies, then you will not appreciate the settings in this film in America's majestic West.

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