Review of Broken Arrow (1996) by Steven1981 — 18 Mar 2020

Broken Arrow is a film directed by John Woo who made other films such as Face/Off, Hard Target, Paycheck and Hard Boiled... Broken Arrow is roughly a mid 1990's action movie, 1996 or somewhere near that period but anyway Broken Arrow stars John Travolta, Christian Slater and a beautiful Samantha Mathis as a park ranger.

Samantha Mathis starred in many films but her role I remember the most was in the terrible film called Super Mario Bros with Dennis Hopper as the villain.....Anyway, moving on, BROKEN ARROW was about two pilots flying a stealth craft around with two live nukes.

Major Vic Deakins (Travolta) ejects his friend pilot (Slater) out of the craft then ejects himself shortly after before the craft is destroyed and blows up. Then Deakins (Travolta) gangs up with some posse and hatches a plan to steal nukes and use them for dirty deeds.

. Riley Hale (Christian Slater) teams up with a park ranger (Mathis) to stop Travolta using the deadly nukes possibly to Kill people but this isn't entirely explained in the movie. However they save the day and Travolta and Slater face off in an ultimate climax before the movie ends in an excellent fight scene.

However this film I liked about 10+ years ago and looking at Broken Arrow now it's laughable and John Travolta and Slater looked pretty stupid in this film, a bit like dumb and Dumber to say the least.

The story is ridiculous and some of the film is a bit unbelievable but great action scenes and is better than Travolta's effort in Face/Off which is even worse. However this film isn't great and the more you watch Broken Arrow the more tedious it gets and you stoop to Travolta's I.

Q in this movie which isn't very high.