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Actors: John Travolta, Christian Slater
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Broken Arrow |
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Major Vic Deakins (Travolta) and Captain Riley Hale (Slater) are piloting a B3 Stealth bomber on maneuvers over the Utah desert when Deakins crash lands the jet. Enraged over repeatedly being passed over for promotion, Deakins has turned traitor and uses the two nuclear warheads aboard the plane to blackmail the U.S.: either they ransom the bombs or he explodes them in the southwestern United States. But Captain Hale and a sharp park ranger named Terry Carmichael (Mathis) stand in the way of his plans. After some fighting and chasing in the desert, the two colleagues end in a dramatic fistfight aboard a racing train near a remote control that can explode the warheads. Though directed by famed action guy John Woo and written by Graham Yost (who did the two "Speed" screenplays), this 1996 thriller is uneven in momentum and rhythm, has weak heroes and unrealistic action, and so is only a decent entertainment.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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John Travolta and Christian Slater are military pilots who are ordered to do a test run of a stealth bomber carrying nuclear bombs over the desert. Travolta attempts to kill Slater and steal the bombs, he gets away with the bombs and Christian Slater seeks out to stop him before he launches them into major cities.
--Nick Bisceglia, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Broken Arrow |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 55%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
- Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- special bomb
- nukes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- military pilot
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Midwest
Desert?
Yes
Misc setting
- moving train
- fort/military installation
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- amphibious landings
- mission to rescue
- mission to protect something
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- diced
- run over
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
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