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Broken Arrow
Directed by John Woo
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box. From TMDB
178 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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Broken Arrow is a 1996 action thriller film, directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta, Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis.
- 159 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Aug 12, 2023 to Nov 4, 2026
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60 of 178 · most liked firstIs 1996 the greatest year of for movie releases of all time? The Rock? Broken Arrow? Mission Impossible? The Substitute?? Chain Reaction????? Glimmer Man?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The Long Kiss Goodnight?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
neutral · AI labelView post →Broken Arrow (1996) Directed by John Woo
neutral · AI labelView post →This film freaked me out me when I accidentally saw it on TV when I was little. God knows why I was watching it, but glad I did. (Big fan of Delmer Daves - Broken Arrow, 3:10 to Yuma etc)
positive · AI labelView post →Hot take while everyone is still waking up: “Broken Arrow” is a better John Woo film than “Face/Off.”
positive · AI labelView post →I've said it once, I'll say it again - the movie, "Broken Arrow." Rangers are generally not people who comply with demands they know to be wrong and harmful. And if they do comply, expect malicious compliance. Proud if you all.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Broken Arrow (1996 John Woo) Is this a great movie? Probably not, but the combination of Travolta ham, Slater heroics, and John Woo action is pretty irresistible. Also that twangy guitar score is an all timer.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve seen John Travolta and Christian Slater in Broken Arrow roughly 12 times but could not tell you anything about what happens in the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →WINNERS: February 2026 FAN FICTION Festival fanfictionfestival.com/2026/02/24/w... A showcase of the best of FAN FICTION from around the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS: Best Short Film: Max Payne: Broken Promises Best Direction: Hawkeye: The Broken Arrow #fanfiction #filmfestival #festivalwinners
neutral · AI labelView post →After two years, twenty-five film festivals, and nineteen awards (including a couple Best Films!), JUST THE JANITOR is playing its final fest. It's been an INCREDIBLE journey, and I am so so SO thrilled people enjoy our film. See us at the Broken Arrow Film Festival on Friday, Oct 2nd @ 6PM!
neutral · AI labelView post →We're back with @cultmovie.cards no.3. This time we're celebrating the exploding helicopter fest that is BROKEN ARROW (1997). This film features four highly entertaining chopper fireballs with the one featured here the pick of the bunch. To quote John Travolta: "I said goddamn, what a rush!"
neutral · AI labelView post →#Junesploitation2026 Day 1: '90s Action! Day late on @fthismovie.bsky.social's Junesploitation '26, but I did a double feature tonight to make up for it. 1st film is a film I haven't watched in like 25 years - 1996's BROKEN ARROW by John Woo. It's pretty dumb, but has a fun Travolta performance.
neutral · AI labelView post →In case you missed it yesterday, we've teamed up with @cultmovie.cards to celebrate 12 classic helicopter explosions in film. Entry no.3 was for the stone cold exploding helicopter classic BROKEN ARROW (1997).
neutral · AI labelView post →I love that they bring back the Scream 2 Dewey theme for a brief moment, which is always a story I love because it was never meant to be a part of Scream 2. It was supposed to be a temporary placeholder and was actually the main theme to the movie Broken Arrow. #FrightClub #ScreamVI
neutral · AI labelView post →#bales2025moviechallenge #filmsky 📽️ @infinitybuilder.bsky.social @sinnapomme.bsky.social @januarymovie.bsky.social @bramblejim.bsky.social @quirkyfilms.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.social @tadool.bsky.social @stonegasman.bsky.social @aillsley3.bsky.social 30-athlete in film Howie Long in BROKEN ARROW
neutral · AI labelView post →Delmer Daves (with scenes from his film "Broken Arrow") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →This excerpt from a contemporaneous USAF film dramatizes and explains the causes of this wholly-preventable Broken Arrow: a combination of equipment failure, crew fatigue and exhaustion, poor decision making, and human error. Not mentioned: SAC’s prioritization of nuclear warfighting over safety.
neutral · AI labelView post →So we've been chillin in front of this vista for days thinking it looks like a film set, and turns out it was. (Thanks to local Sedonian George for the heads-up!) 1950 film Broken Arrow Vs now!
neutral · AI labelView post →sometimes i’m just really in the mood for the specific kind of movie he makes and it puts me down a dark road that ends in me rewatching fucking Broken Arrow (i like Broken Arrow tbh)
positive · AI labelView post →This excerpt from a contemporaneous USAF film dramatizes and explains the causes of this wholly-preventable Broken Arrow: a combination of equipment failure, crew fatigue and exhaustion, poor decision making, and human error. Not mentioned: SAC’s prioritization of nuclear warfighting over safety.
neutral · AI labelView post →Broken Arrow is a prime example of 90s action movie. Silly story, over-acting, and Travolta as the bad guy. Give it a watch if you don't want to use your brain-meat too much for nearly two hours. Follow me for more 28 year-old #HotTakes
neutral · AI labelView post →The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Welp…BROKEN ARROW 😬
neutral · AI labelView post →Park Ranger from 1996 movie Broken Arrow. Park rangers are bad ass.
neutral · AI labelView post →James Stewart was the first Hollywood star to be granted a percentage of box office receipts as part of his compensation for appearing in a film. He first used the tactic in the successful 1950 movies Winchester '73 and Broken Arrow.
neutral · AI labelView post →Share an ACTION movie title that begins with the letter B 🎥🖤 Broken Arrow
neutral · AI labelView post →Five minutes into Broken Arrow and have already decided that putting this movie on is the best decision I’ve ever made.
positive · AI labelView post →Are we now discussing the 90s action film, The Rock? Because the 90s were great for single-serving action movies before everything got franchised. See also: Con Air, Broken Arrow, Air Force One
neutral · AI labelView post →Broken Arrow incident....on Everest.... That's 80's action movie writing
neutral · AI labelView post →BROKEN ARROW apparently holds the record for most exploding helicopters. We need a movie that tops that. Real helicopters and explosions though. No CG.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s film is the 1996 classic Broken Arrow, which I somehow never saw in the cinema. Looking forward to this!
positive · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky Day 6: Something besides a bank is robbed in a movie Broken Arrow (1995)-stolen nuke
neutral · AI labelView post →Broken Arrow is another Woo/Travolta mid/late 90s action movie with over the top performances but it plays better with reality than Face Off. It's still silly but here it's mostly the dialogue. If Travolta dialed it way back this movie would probably be more fondly remembered
neutral · AI labelView post →Broken Arrow (1996) dir. John Woo I love this film bc they make the villain Vic Deakins so cool lmao #johntravolta #johnwoo #actionmovies #1990s #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →I like the bomb philosophy of action movies. Where if you have a ticking time bomb, you should have it go off. In Broken Arrow, they let a nuke go off IN THE MIDDLE of the movie. Because you really don't want to end this movie with a nuclear explosion, right?
positive · AI labelView post →It’s my favorite American John Woo film, with BROKEN ARROW a very close second. It’s definitely my favorite VanDamme with TIMECOP coming a close second. The battle in the Mardi Gras float graveyard is my favorite part of the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →37.) BROKEN ARROW (1996) - I believe this is the first instance of the "chung chung! dun DUN dun dun" action movie trailer music and even if not it's still a great old-school action movie trailer that hits a few of Travolta's best lines in the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I just finished watching Broken Arrow for the first time in decades. The writer of Speed + the composer of Dune + the director of Hard Boiled is a formula for peak cinema. (Or a really fun action movie). 🕊️🕊️
positive · AI labelView post →This excerpt from a contemporaneous US Air Force film dramatizes and explains the causes of this wholly-preventable Broken Arrow: a combination of equipment failure, crew fatigue and exhaustion, poor decisionmaking, and human error. Not mentioned: SAC's prioritization of warfighting over safety.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Broken Arrow made this seem like a pretty big deal
neutral · AI labelView post →Hard Target A Better Tomorrow Broken Arrow Face/Off All directed by John Woo
neutral · AI labelView post →The thing I have to ask myself this evening is 'have I grown out of the enjoyment I used to get by Broken Arrow being an immensely silly movie'?
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t have many film stories but I met John Woo when he was scouting MI locations at a shuttered Luna Park in Sydney. I spotted his Broken Arrow crew MA1. He gave me an autograph and his photographer took our photo. He saluted me as we drove off in our lorry.
neutral · AI labelView post →Well, the only way to top off working during a film like Broken Arrow is to continue working with something exceptional in the background. Step forward... Sneakers
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember seeing a movie, maybe it was "Broken Arrow", where at the end my girlfriend turned to me grinning and said, "Cool, they blew everything up". You need movies like that.
positive · AI labelView post →Two movie scenes that make my cry without fail: The ceasefire in Children of Men and the aftermath of the Broken Arrow scene in We Were Soldiers One is a child's cry bringing a halt to an active warzone as the people fighting realize that they, as a species, are not doomed to extinction
neutral · AI labelView post →Seb put on the trailer for Broken Arrow (1996) yesterday, and despite having never even HEARD of that movie until he did this, I can confidently say - damn, we don't make movies like that any more.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched the movie Broken Arrow (1996) last night. Gf thought it was an AI generated 90s thriller and frankly I’m not convinced it wasn’t but it was amazing in a very “dudes rock” sort of way
positive · AI labelView post →it’s like someone watched other hacker movies and the brief Travolta action period (Broken Arrow and Face Off) and made some teenage horny mess of a movie. the uh, blow job scene was a lot
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2026FilmChallenge #Bales2026MovieChallenge 8/14 Movie about Native Americans Broken Arrow (1950) Cochise (Jeff Chandler) and Indian agent Tom Jeffords (Jimmy Stewart) face obstacles in trying to hammer out a peace treaty between the Apaches and the U.S. government. #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Woo's first Hollywood film was Hard Target with Van Damme. I actually like that a bit better than his second, Broken Arrow. #cultshelf
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched (some of) ‘Broken Arrow’ with some friends in the theater, was commenting on the way out to them that it was stupid but at least it was short, only to be informed that I’d been asleep for about 45 minutes of the middle of the film. No appreciable difference in my understanding of the plot.
negative · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "The Transmigration of Timothy Broken Arrow" John Travolta, Christian Slater, Angel Archer Director: John Woo Science fiction action-religion film, based on the novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick youtube.com/watch?v=jybu... www.youtube.com/watch?v=x15d...
neutral · AI labelView post →Almost Cut My Hair The Ghost Door Sound of Silence Broken Arrow Jam-> Mason’s Children Travelin’ Man Pancho and Lefty The Nightmare Your Movie I Should Have Known Better
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the John Woo movie Broken Arrow because right now I’m in the mood for some authentic 90s nonsense
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 30th birthday anniversary to (1) Dolly the Sheep Pokemon Tupac Shakur: All Eyez on Me Status Quo: Don't Stop Whatever drive by World;s Funniest Home Videos Trainsspotting film Broken Arrow IRA bombings Bosnian War
neutral · AI labelView post →Broken Arrow easily has one of the most absurdly hilarious villain deaths in action movies. I enjoyed rewatching it. I also appreciated Samantha Mathis being badass in the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →A bit of a 'Young, dumb, and full of cum' action movie double-bill this afternoon. 'Broken Arrow', followed by 'Point Break'. Surf Nazis Must Die!
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a solid half year where I thought Broken Arrow was the greatest movie ever made I shit my pants when they used it's music as Dewey's theme in Scream 2
positive · AI labelView post →Uh yeah. I worked for one of the main contractors supporting NEST nearly 30 years ago (EG&G). Have they not seen the movie BROKEN ARROW? It’s spot on. They truly live in a bubble.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d do the Filmsky 20 day challenge, but if I’m honest it would be like 60% Lucasfilm movies, or if I limited it to one film per franchise, I’d have a bunch of shit on there like Broken Arrow and Point Break.
neutral · AI labelView post →244. Finally checking out the 2nd film with Jeff Chandler as Cochise. Kind of a sequel to Delmer Daves’ fantastic Broken Arrow starring James Stewart. #NowWatching for the first time…
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