Broken Arrow (1996)

	Directed by: John Woo	COUNTRY USA GENRE Action NORWEGIAN TITLE Broken Arrow RUNNING TIME 110 minutes
	Produced by: Mark Gordon Bill Badalato Terence Chang
	Written by: Graham Yost

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Vic Deakins	John Travolta	½
Riley Hale	Christian Slater
Terry Carmichael	Samantha Mathis
Colonel Wilkins	Delroy Lindo
Pritchett	Bob Gunton
Giles Prentice	Frank Whaley
Secretary of Defense Baird	Kurtwood Smith

Review

John Travolta capitalised on his newfound coolness, and John Woo took his overblown action style into big-budget territory. The result was another box-office hit for both of them, but with the charm of novelty well gone, Broken Arrow now looks and plays like the second-rate, clichéd action film it is behind all the extravaganza. Woo's stylistic trickery, which had made his darker films more gritty, comes off as little more than goofy in the midst of this film's big-budget explosions and stereotypical American bureaucratic power struggles. And when screenwriter Graham Yost isn't able to come up with the clever ideas he did in Speed, Travolta and his adversary Christian Slater are left to their own devices amidst Woo's ineffective antics. Much like the script, the tension between them never transcends the superficial.