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Information
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 108 min.
- Director
- John Woo
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- Rating *
- 6.1
- Votes *
- 73,429
- Checks
- 4,970
- Favs
- 79
- Dislikes
- 129
- Favs/checks
- 1.6% (1:63)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Siskoid
When I first saw Broken Arrow in theaters, John Travolta was peaking and he has so much fun playing the camp bad guy in this John Woo action flick that you do too. The Woo-isms will always seem strange to me in an American movie, and I wish I knew why exactly (like, replace with Chinese actors and it's fine, I dunno), but the action set pieces are definitely cool, even if they can tend to the ridiculous. I think the main stumbling block for me is Samantha Mathis' park ranger, at the crossroads between '90s action heroine and liability comic relief. It's really a script problem, because she doesn't have any motivation for the things she does, no reason to be so obsessed with getting into the action, no reason for the violent meetcute where she threatens to shoot an Air Force officer... and it just can't be acted reasonably. It's not the only script problem, but if you're there for exploding helicopters, train fights and Travolta giggling his way through mayhem, you've come to the right place. 2 years 7 months ago -
Shingwauk
Can someone please take John Travolta aside and show him how to hold a cigarette. 3 years 1 month ago -
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