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Broken Arrow





"Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon."

When I think of Broken Arrow, I think of how bad it actually is, but for some reason, I don't care. I acknowledge that it's not a great movie...heck it's not a great action movie. There are some truly horribly edited set pieces here, but you've got John Travolta having A LOT of fun as the bad guy and Christian Slater trying his best to be an action hero, all set in the desert of Utah.

This film is overshadowed by Face/Off...which has its fun moments but has some bizarrely "real" ones too, Broken Arrow doesn't try to be anything more than what it is. A dumb action movie with Howie Long....Howie Long ladies and gentlemen. It's a typical shoot at someone and hides behind a barrel or some wooden palette. You wait for them to stop shooting, then you go back to shooting and rinse, repeat.

Watch it with a brain turned off, Travolta's sh*t eating grin and a different landscape to an action film and you won't hate yourself.