Broken Arrow (1996 film)
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| Directed by | John Woo |
| Produced by | Bill Badalato Terence Chang Mark Gordon |
| Written by | Graham Yost |
| Starring | Christian Slater John Travolta Samantha Mathis |
| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Editing by | Joe Hutshing |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | February 9, 1996 |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $55 million (estimated) |
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Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action film directed by John Woo and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater. The screenplay was written by Graham Yost. The original music score was composed by Hans Zimmer.
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[edit] Plot
Major Vic 'Deak' Deakins (John Travolta) and Captain Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are pilots in the United States Air Force. The film begins with a boxing match between the two, where Hale is knocked out by Deakins. After the match Hale gives the bet money of the match back to Deakins saying he had stolen it from his wallet. Later both the pilots are assigned to a top secret exercise on a B3 Stealth Bomber with two nuclear missiles on board. Deakins and Hale take off from Whiteman Air Force Base in the Bomber (a fictional advanced version of the actual B-2 Spirit stealth bomber) carrying the two live nuclear weapons on an evening exercise over Utah.
After successfully evading Air Force radar during the exercise, Deakins has a friendly chat during which he distracts Hale to check their port-side window. At this point, he draws his gun to shoot Hale. A combat ensues on board the plane and Deakins successfully manages to safely drop the nukes from the plane after ejecting Hale. When the airforce base regains radar contact with the plane, Deakins reports that "Hale's lost it. I'm bailing out" and ejects leaving the plane to crash on the mountain side over the Utah canyons.
Meanwhile, a Special Forces team is sent to recover the nukes. They do not find the nukes on board the plane and report a "Broken Arrow" (a situation where nuclear missiles are missing). The team is later killed while recovering the nukes in a canyon by rogue mercenaries led by Deakins.
Hale survives the ejection and is found by Park Ranger Terry Carmichael, whom he convinces after a standoff to help him track down Deakins and foil his plot. After recovering the nuclear weapons, Hale attempts to disable them using a safety feature which renders them unusable if the incorrect arming code is entered incorrectly. Deakins has planned ahead for this contigency and Hale inadvertently arms the warhead. Hale unable to disarm the warhead intends to plant it deep in a copper mine along with the other warhead to prevent it from being used elsewhere. Deakins arrives and secures the unarmed warhead leaving Hale and Terry to die in the ensuing explosion. Hale and Terry escape the mine via an underwater river. Following the explosion during which the EMP destroys a NEST Team sent in to recover the warheads, Terry and Hale track Deakins to a motorboat to be used for transporting the remaining nuke. Whilst trying to steal the boat Terry is forced to hide while Deakins moves the warhead to its final destination.
Hale deciphers that Deakins is transporting the nuke onboard a train and sets off in a helicopter to find the rogue train and hunt down Deakins. On board the train Hale finds Terry. A gunfight ensues between Hale, Terry and Deakins' henchmen. Most of the henchmen are shot dead and one gets thrown out of the train after the spinning blades of a chopper cut through his chest. The train is set on fire when the one of the bullets hits a fuel barrel during the gunfight. Finally, Hale faces off against Deakins in hand-to-hand combat in the boxcar containing the nuke. Hale manages to overcome Deakins' fighting tactics and retaliates with a foray of blows, which weaken Deakins. Hale then leaps out of the train with a remote and turns off the warheads timer. At the same instant, a detached train car comes slamming into the bogey where the fight had ensued. Due to the impact from the collision, the disarmed nuke flies into Deakins and the entire train explodes.
Hale who survived finds a 20-dollar note fluttering on a twig in the debris of the train wreck (The same 20-dollar note he had stolen from Deakins). He then finds Terry and they formally introduce each other.
[edit] Cast and characters
- John Travolta as Vic "Deak" Deakins
- Christian Slater as Riley Hale
- Samantha Mathis as Terry Carmichael
- Delroy Lindo as Colonel Max Wilkins
- Bob Gunton as Pritchett
- Frank Whaley as Giles Prentice
- Howie Long as Kelly
- Vondie Curtis-Hall as Chief Sam Rhodes
- Jack Thompson as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Shaun Toub as Max
- Casey Biggs as Novacek
- J.N. Roberts as Moss
- Kurtwood Smith as Secretary of Defense Baird
- Daniel von Bargen as Air Force General Creely
- Carmen Argenziano as General Boone
- French Stewart as I.R. Crewman
- Chris Mulkey as Major Hunt
[edit] Box office
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].
[edit] External links
- Boxoffice Information
- Broken Arrow at Allmovie
- Broken Arrow at the Internet Movie Database
- Movie stills
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