Broken Arrow (1996 Film) John Travolta and Christian Slater

Broken Arrow (1996 Film)

John Travolta and Christian Slater

A lot of stuff gets blown up really well in" Broken Arrow," including a train, four copters, and a mountain, but these brief flashes of special goods do not do much to speed up a slow, flabby action suspense that plays like a homage to the falseness of the Talking Killer.

Broken Arrow John Travolta and Christian Slater

                                                                           

The falseness, you'll recall, occurs when all the bad Joe, has to do is pull the detector, and his problems are over. Rather, he talks, and addresses, until his target escapes from his dilemma.

There are also scenes where the two adversaries describe their motives and plans to each other because else neither side would know what to do next, and the movie would stop dead in its tracks.

" Broken Arrow," directed by the Hong Kong cult fave John Woo, is his big-budget Hollywood debut, after his further modestly priced first U.S. film," Hard Target"(1993). It shows Woo is able of carrying noisy fight scenes and spectacular explosions, but he is nowhere near the league of Andy Davis(" The Expatriate") and Tony Scott(" Top Gun") when it comes to casting smart action with interesting characters and dialogue.

Broken Arrow (1996 Film)

• John Travolta as United States Air Force Major Vic "Deak" Deakins
• Christian Slater as United States Air Force Captain Riley Hale
• Samantha Mathis as United States Park Service Park Ranger Terry
• Carmichael
• Delroy Lindo as United States Air Force Colonel Max Wilkins
• Frank Whaley as Giles Prentice
• Bob Gunton as Mr. Pritchett
• Howie Long as United States Air Force Pararescueman Master Sergeant Kelly
• Jack Thompson as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Kurtwood Smith as Secretary of Defense Baird
• Vondie Curtis-Hall as the United States Air Force Pararescueman Chief
• Master Sergeant Sam Rhodes
• Daniel von Bargen as United States Air Force General Creely
• Jeffrey Stephan as Shepherd

" Broken Arrow" is principally a dogfight between two military aviators, played by John Travolta and Christian Slater, who are assigned to a top-secret low-altitude training charge with a Stealth bomber. 

Turns out Travolta is a snake who plans to kill Slater, steal the losers, and vend them to a syndicate that plans to blackmail the government.

This is a promising premise, but ever" Broken Arrow" noway really sinks in its teeth and takes it seriously. Consider, for illustration, the scene where we discover Travolta isn't what he seems.

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954)[1][2] is an actor from the United States. He rose to prominence in the 1970s, starring in the television series Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979) and the movie office hits Carrie (1976), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978), and Urban Cowboy (1979). (1980). He had a revival in the 1990s with his appearance in Pulp Fiction (1994) and went on to perform in films such as Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Phenomenon (1996), Face/Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Primary Colors (1998), Hairspray (2007), and Bolt (2007). (2008).

He turns to Slater in the cockpit and... narrows his eyes. That is right. Narrows them fiercely and intensively. 

There's a lot of eye-narrowing in John Woo's pictures (see especially" The Killer," which backups for character development). But then it just looks frothy, as if Travolta were back in that great scene in" Get Shorty," tutoring Danny DeVito assignments on how to look menacing.

One abecedarian problem with the movie is that John Travolta is seriously miscast as a nuclear terrorist. Say what you'll about Joe, he does not come across as heavy. Watching this film, you understand why Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walker play so numerous frenetic bombers because they can.

The movie laboriously sets up the contest between Travolta and Slater in an opening scene, where they are boxing. Travolta tells Slater he" lacks the will to win." Ping!! That is the Full Circle Alarm going off, waking us to the certainty that, by the end of this film, Slater will have set up the will to win, and demonstrated that to Travolta, most likely (are you ready for this?) in a fistfight.

Christian Michael Leonard Slater (born August 18, 1969) is a producer and actor from the United States. He made his cinematic debut in The Legend of Billie Jean (1985), and rose to prominence for his part as Jason "J.D." Dean, a psychopathic high school student, in the parody Heathers (1988). He has achieved critical praise for his portrayal as the title character in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015-2019), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries, or Television Film in 2016, and for which he was nominated in 2017 and 2018.

There's such a fight in" Broken Arrow." Also, a series of chase scenes that involve police buses, RVs, hustlers, copters, mine shaft elevators, raging gutters, and a raw train. But always with the suspension undermined by the Talking Killer. 

As when the two adversaries communicate by phone, agitating their plans. Or when Slater actually interrupts the disarming of a nuclear warhead to say effects on his cellular phone he should not say. (That is quite a phone; it works from the bottom of a bobby mine in the middle of Utah.) 

At one point, when it looks like Travolta has won, he looks out the door of a road freight auto, and sees Slater's copter poised right there, with Slater pointing a rifle at him. 

Does Slater shoot? No, because this is such an ideal occasion for a Meaningful Exchange of ganders in which the two men can communicate those deep manliness vibes without which no action movie can endure. 

Samantha Mathis (born May 12, 1970) is an American actress and labor organizer who served as SAG-Vice AFTRA's President, Actors/Performers from 2015 to 2019. [a] Mathis made her film debut in Pump Up the Volume (1990), and went on to co-star or appear in films such as FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Super Mario Bros. (1993), The Thing Called Love (1993), Little Women (1994), The American President (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), American Psycho (2000), The Punisher (2004), and Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012). She recently appeared as New York City Councilwoman Justine Faraldo on The Strain and as Taylor Mason Capital COO Sara Hammon on Billions.

Oh, and I nearly forgot the Tagalog, a demesne ranger played fetchingly by Samantha Mathis, whose purpose is to follow Slater far and wide, help him out, advise him, and take off her shirt as soon as possible.

Directed by	John Woo
Written by	Graham Yost
Produced by	Mark Gordon
	Bill Badolato
	Terence Chang
Starring	John Travolta
	Christian Slater
	Samantha Mathis
	Delroy Lindo
	Frank Whaley
	Bob Gunton
	Howie Long
Cinematography	Peter Levy
Edited by	Joe Hutching
	Steve Mirkovich
	John Wright
Music by	Hans Zimmer
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	February 9, 1996
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$50 million
Box office	$150.2 million