Broken Arrow (1996) on Netflix
R19961h 48mActionAdventureComedyThriller
Air Force pilots Vic Deakins and Riley Hale fly a stealth bomber carrying two nuclear warheads. Deakins turns on Hale and seizes the warheads. Park ranger Terry Carmichael joins the search.
- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.1/10111,406 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes53%
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Plot summary
Major Vic Deakins and Captain Riley Hale are Air Force pilots assigned to fly a stealth bomber over Utah on a secret exercise, with two live nuclear warheads aboard. Mid-flight, Deakins turns on his co-pilot, ejects him from the plane, drops the bombs and reports that Hale has gone rogue. A rescue team sent to find the warheads runs into armed mercenaries, and Deakins is working with a financier who intends to blackmail the government with the threat of a detonation. Arrested by park ranger Terry Carmichael, Hale persuades her to help him track the stolen weapons across the canyon country.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Broken Arrow (1996)
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- John Travolta was originally the choice to play Riley Hale, the part that went to Christian Slater, but was picked instead to play Major Vic Deakins. Travolta was paid $7 million for the role.
- John Woo said he was at first “a little nervous” because John Travolta “had never seen any of [his] films”, until Quentin Tarantino introduced Travolta to The Killer, leading the actor to say “I want to be Chow Yun-Fat!” Woo also noted creative differences with the stunt coordinator, who “didn’t like slow motion”.
- The score's opening track, “Rope-A-Dope”, also known as “Deakin's Theme”, has been widely used elsewhere, including in Scream 2 for David Arquette's character Dewey Riley and in Speed 2. Its famous riff was played by guitarist Duane Eddy, whom Zimmer brought in for the entire scoring session.
- The review on Siskel & Ebert & the Movies is the only time Roger Ebert convinced Gene Siskel to change his mind about a film: Siskel's marginal thumbs up became a thumbs down after he heard Ebert's criticisms.
