Broken Arrow Reviews

At some point, John Woo was considered the best director from Hong-Kong and it was a big deal when he finally decided to make the move to Hollywood. His first US feature, ‘Hard Target’, was actually pretty decent and definitely one of the very few movies starring Jean-Claude Van Damme which were actually watchable. This movie was his American follow-up and the scope was definitely bigger this time with a plot dealing with some stolen nuclear warheads. At the time, there was a pretty good buzz about this flick, everybody still had some high expectations about Woo’s US career, and even though it didn’t grow old very well, it was still a rather entertaining action flick. Back then, John Travolta just made his come-back with ‘Pulp Fiction’ a couple of years before and the guy was definitely a hot item. I think it was a great move from him to portray a villain, something really different than in his previous work in ‘Get Shorty’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’ and he was definitely one of the best things about this flick. Indeed, I always had a weak spot for Travolta and he always delivers when playing the bad guy. Back in those days, Christian Slater was still very much in demand (God, it was almost 20 years ago… I feel so old suddenly…) and he did his best but he was pretty much outperformed by Travolta. A part from this, the story was pretty much ludicrous but the action scenes were pretty solid and entertaining. To conclude, even though it is nothing really amazing, it remains a decent action flick and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in John Woo’s work.

"god damn what a rush" - bob on action packed flick deserves more than 5.8 - tis what it tis..fun.

This is one of the classic Travolta action flick. It has the same feel of Face-off, and it has just as much action. With the treat of nuclear weapons, Travolta makes an even crazier villian in this flick. Classic action films like this I can watch any day of the week, any time of the day.