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	Broken Arrow
		Thanks to this film maker's tireless gamesmanship (he's guaranteed not to play that tourist trick the same way twice) and his knack for making weapons, explosives or low-flying helicopters turn up in the strangest places, ``Broken Arrow'' packs an impressive wallop.
		``Broken Arrow,'' with a title that is military parlance for the loss of nuclear warheads, includes some barely rational changes of scenery, among them an abandoned mine and an underground stream.
		Also in ``Broken Arrow'' are Delroy Lindo as a military officer trying to monitor Deakins's troublemaking, and Howie Long, the former football star, well used as a big, strapping heavy in the Dolph Lundgren mode.
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	Broken Arrow (1996 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action motion picture starring Christian Slater as Captain Riley Hale and John Travolta as Major Vic Deakins.
		Broken Arrow was released on Friday, February 9, 1996 and although it was disappointing to die-hard fans of the director John Woo's other films, it was modestly successful.
		Broken Arrow had a domestic gross of US$ 70,770,147 and an international gross of $79,500,000, for a total worldwide gross of $150,270,147[1].
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	Broken Arrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Broken Arrow, a song released in 1987 by Robbie Robertson on his eponymous solo album and later remade by Rod Stewart (on his 1991 album Vagabond Heart and released as a single in 1992).
		A broken arrow is an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war.
		Broken arrow is also a code word used to request close air support from all available aircraft when a ground position is in extreme danger of being overrun by enemy troops.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broken_Arrow (323 words)

	Broken Arrow (USA 1996)
		In Broken Arrow, Vic Deakins (John Travolta) and Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are two ace stealth bomber pilots on a top-secret training mission.
		Some blatant Woo-isms are present in the film, but for the most part, they're downplayed (Christian Slater does brandish two guns in super slow-mo at one point, but no doves appear).
		As with many of Woo's films, Broken Arrow is about two men who are, in essence, opposite sides of the same coin.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/broken_arrow.htm (763 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Broken Arrow
		When a B-3 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins wildly out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to be part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot.
		I didn't like Broken Arrow the first time I saw it, I thought it was dumb, but then I saw it again and I really liked it.
		Broken Arrow is a strong film on all fronts if it's mindless, Hollywooden action you seek.
	www.cityonfire.com /hkrelated/brokenarrow.html (757 words)

	Broken Arrow
		Broken Arrow also stars Samantha Mathis as Park Ranger Terry Carmichael, who teams with Hale to combat Deakins and his gang.
		The phrase Broken Arrow is indeed military parlance for a lost nuclear device.
		Acknowledging that his "Speed" and Broken Arrow scripts reflect his own tastes in entertainment, Yost comments, "I'd rather just have fun with the genre than be heavy and brutal.
	www.nickhodge.com /cslater/Movies/BrokenArrow/brokenArrow.html (1286 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Broken Arrow [1996]: DVD: John Travolta,Christian Slater,Samantha Mathis,Delroy Lindo,Bob Gunton,Frank ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		That's where Broken Arrow is deceptive: its tone is right for the laughter compared to the mean-spirited Schwarzenegger and Stallone action films with laboured jokes.
		Broken Arrow is one of John Woo's best films (next to Hard Boiled) and I would argue better than Face Off.
		At the end of the day, action films are not running for Oscars but are here to entertain - and their are fewer films as entertaining as Broken Arrow.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Broken-Arrow-John-Travolta/dp/B00004D0HC (1313 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Broken Arrow
		When the film was still in casting, Travolta was given his choice of the two lead roles.
		Broken Arrow is a warm-up for both Woo and Travolta, as they proved in Face/Off, a ridiculously successful film that sent a message to Hollywood: Hong Kong has a thing or two to teach us about making a great action film.
		Broken Arrow, with its by the number script and reletive lack of style, made it look like Woo had been chewed up and spit out by the Hollywood machine.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/broken-arrow.html (759 words)

	Broken Arrow
		Broken Arrow was John Woo's second US film, and it's far better than Hard Target, mostly because of John Travolta's great performance as Deakins (and some great one-liners throughout the film from screenwriter Graham Yost).
		Supposedly, the film was running over budget, so Woo couldn't go back and reshoot any footage (also, the film was edited by three people, each of whom had his own ideas about what footage should be used).
		Broken Arrow is the perfect film to prove Pollack wrong, a straightforward action film with tons of special effects.
	www.hkfilm.net /arrow.htm (1040 words)

	Amazon.com: Broken Arrow: DVD: John Travolta,Christian Slater,Samantha Mathis,Delroy Lindo,Bob Gunton,Frank ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Broken Arrow is now available to download from Amazon Unbox.
		Up until Broken Arrow I hadn't seen a single Travolta film that I had enjoyed but this break from his usual fare was fantastic.
		Broken Arrow was quite a disappointment, considering the makeup of the cast: John Travolta and Christian Slater among others.
	www.amazon.com /Broken-Arrow-John-Woo/dp/6305280754 (1302 words)

	I, of Nuke -- Stephen I. Schwartz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		First, the Air Force would be unlikely to fly a stealth bomber with actual nuclear bombs to study the possibility that gamma radiation emissions could reveal the plane's location to an adversary.
		A pilot, like the one played by John Travolta, would never be able to override the electronic lock and arm the bomb, and any effort to tamper with the weapon would automatically render it useless.
		Broken Arrow is an exciting movie, but viewers shouldn't spend too much time worrying that what they've seen on screen is going to happen anytime soon.
	www.brookings.edu /views/Op-Ed/Schwartz/19960426.htm (184 words)

	The Cast and Crew
		"I don't know what's scarier," says Giles Prentice in "BROKEN ARROW," "the fact that there are missing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often that there's actually a term for it." The phrase "broken arrow" is indeed military parlance for a lost nuclear device.
		Yost developed "BROKEN ARROW" with executive producer Dwight Little and producer Mark Gordon at The Mark Gordon Company, for whom he had written "Speed." "BROKEN ARROW" adopts a similar hit-the-ground-running strategy to Fox's summer 1994 smash hit.
		Little was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended film school at the University of Southern California.
	www.foxhome.com /brokenarrow/html/cas12.htm (816 words)

	BROKEN ARROW
		Slater tries really hard to make you care about this "broken arrow" situation, but he looks mostly fatigued and by the middle of the movie so was I. The implausibilties abound.
		Instead of being exciting, BROKEN ARROW is mentally exhausting, leaving you to wonder how this much talent could amount to so little entertainment.
		The only reason I gave this film a star is because of the genuine charisma of both Travolta and Slater.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsB/f_brokenarrow.html (612 words)

	Review on Broken Arrow - Movie by Chompish on MouthShut.com
		Don’t let this put you off though, it is a good film to watch when you want a night in with a few beers, or when you are bored.
		The two main actors in the film, Vic Deakins (John Travolta) and Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are pilots in the USAF.
		That is all I am prepared to say about the film but I hope that from what I have wrote, you will be prepared to watch the film.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Broken_Arrow-12210-1.html (760 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Broken Arrow (1996)
		John Woo returns to Hollywood with this action film that puts John Travolta and Christian Slater at odds.
		The fans of Woo's Hong Kong films were again disappointed in this, his second American film, presumably because it lacked his trademark melodrama, which adds a level of intelligence into the essentially brainless action.
		Another reason (that I take as a point in its favor) could be that Broken Arrow is brighter, less brooding and gruesome -- and consequently less oppressing with Woo's standard anti-violence subtext.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/broken.arrow.1996.shtml (167 words)

	Broken Arrow - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		Though it stars John Travolta and Christian Slater, "Broken Arrow" is a John Woo movie from start to finish, which means there are lots of things no one should waste time expecting.
		Deakins, however, is involved in a plot to steal the plane's pair of nuclear warheads ("broken arrow" is official terminology for lost nuclear weapons) and use them to extort millions from a presumably terrified American government.
		"Broken Arrow" is not the typical Woo movie in that the exaggerated shootouts that made his reputation share screen time with optical special effects that are new to his work.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-movie960406-336,0,964461.story (627 words)

	BROKEN ARROW
		For an action film it's not bad and Travolta makes a good villain even though he occasionally chews on the scenery a bit.
		The biggest problems are the obligatory gun battles (where nobody gets hit despite the thousands of bullets flying through the air) and fist fights (where everyone takes more punches to the body and head then most heavyweight boxing champions do in a life time).
		In addition, Terry the park ranger is completely unbelievable as she plays "superhero" and jumps and dangles from moving jeeps and trains and somehow knows every square inch of the vast desert better than the back of her hand.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1996/broken_arrow.html (1829 words)

	John Woo - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
		The film's trenchcoat/sunglasses fashion sense, and combat style of using a gun in each hand in close quartersandmdash; often referred to as 'Gun fu'andmdash; would later inspire Hollywood filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and the Wachowski brothers.
		When initial cuts failed to yield an MPAA film rating system"R" rated film, the studio took the film from Woo's hands and pared it down themselves in order to produce a cut that was "suitable for American audiences".
		Although the screen in not visible, it can be surmised that it is indeed a John Woo film, as one of the film's characters exclaims, "What are all these pigeons doing in here?" and a multitude of flapping wings heard.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/John_Woo (1680 words)

	Welcome to EmpireTheatres.com!
		Mathis's first feature film was Pump Up the Volume (1990) opposite her on- and off-screen love at the time, Christian Slater.
		Her performance as the misfit girlfriend of the ham-radio operator was an excellent early impression of her talent.
		Wanting to forget the Super Mario film, which was quickly becoming a disaster, she moved on to play Miranda Presley in The Thing Called Love (1993).
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	FILM REVIEW -- Travolta Nails Bull's-Eye In Woo's `Broken Arrow'
		Unlike Woo's first American effort, ``Hard Target,'' ``Broken Arrow,'' which comes out on video this week, is a plain, straight-ahead action film without any interludes of ponderous, slow-motion sadism.
		The inspired casting of Travolta as the off-his-rocker nuclear terrorist kicks ``Broken Arrow'' onto another level.
		But the credit has to be shared with screenwriter Graham Yost, who wrote ``Speed.'' The action keeps escalating in ``Broken Arrow'' to the point where they can detonate a nuclear bomb halfway through the picture and still top it at the finish.
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	Broken Arrow (1996) Starring: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis - Three Movie Buffs Review
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		Broken Honor 3 Pack (Men of Honor / Broken Arrow / Courage Under Fire)
		Some movies are bad to the point that I can make fun of them as I watch and thus the movie actually has some entertainment value.
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		To attempt to describe the plot of this film, is rather a pointless exercise, it's not a plot film.
		The rest of the film is trying to stop him, with Slater playing the incorruptible good guy.
		On the extremely bad side was the whole plot, John Travolta, (at times) who can be very annoying, the dialogue, expecially the couple banter, and most especially the near final scene with Travolta's exit, easily the most comical and unconvincing effect ever.
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	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Broken Arrow
		With his next American effort, Broken Arrow, he got to use John Travolta cst against type as a renegade Air Force colonel named Vic Deakins, a patriotic military officer gone beserk [like Ed Harris in The Rock].
		Woo, a master at edgy, violent action films, made another well-tooled melodrama, though the story for Broken Arrow is fairly presposterous, the action sequences are superior.
		Broken Arrow’s supporting cast incldues: Christian Slater as Riley Hale, Samantha Mathis as Terry Carmichael, Delroy Lindo as Colonel Max Wilkins, Frank Whaley as Giles Prentice, Bob Gunton as Pritchett, Howie Long as Kelly, Vondie Curtis-Hall as Lt. Col.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=826 (133 words)

	"Broken Arrow" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		broken arrow is what the military calls a nuclear device that is lost.
		"Broken Arrow" is an exciting action film that I found watchable even though it had somewhat weak acting and plotlines.
		Though it has no sex or nudity, it contained a fair amount of profanity (about 40 uses) and a lot of violence, though not very graphic...
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/brokenarrow.html (281 words)

	Film Scouts Reviews: Broken Arrow
		What I don't think Woo was prepared for was the studio machinery which allowed him free reinwith Van Damme's "Hard Target", but kept "Broken Arrow" in post production editing formonths past the original release date.
		Part of the rapid firepace of "Broken Arrow" has to be attributed to Graham Yost though.
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	Film Restoration
		Rather than just releasing films in their original scope, Columbia has taken on the admiral task of film preservation and restoration.
		Many films have to be restored scene by scene, frame by frame.
		Fortunately, a mint stereo copy was located in the hands of a private collector that thankful realized the importance of the project and permitted the use of his copy for the restoration.
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	Green Left - 'Broken' is an understatement
		A good sign I thought, given that the premise of the film is that a pilot of a super-secret Stealth bomber has "gone ballistic", pinching a couple of thermonuclear weapons and threatening to ignite Salt Lake City.
		Surely, the USAF had decided not to be a party to a film that would make some telling, if over-the-top, points against the dangers of nuclear weapons whizzing around the world in high-tech undetectable aircraft, a latter-day Dr Strangelove.
		The USAF did not want to be associated with the film because it (not the USAF) is utterly dumb.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1996/226/14682 (562 words)

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