Operation: Broken Arrow

Movie
German title	Operation: Broken Arrow
Original title	Broken Arrow
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1996
length	108 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	John Woo
script	Graham Yost
production	Bill Badalato , ; Terence Chang , ; Mark Gordon
music	Hans Zimmer
camera	Peter Levy
cut	Joe Hutshing , ; Steve Mirkovich , ; John Wright
occupation
	John Travolta : Maj. Vic "Deak" Deakins; Christian Slater : Capt. Riley Hale; Samantha Mathis : Terry Carmichael; Delroy Lindo : Col. Max Wilkins; Bob Gunton : Pritchett; Frank Whaley : Giles Prentice; Howie Long : Kelly; Vondie Curtis-Hall : Chief Sam Rhodes; Vyto Ruginis : Johnson; Ousaun Elam : Lt. Thomas; Shaun Toub : Max; Kurtwood Smith : Secretary of Defense;

Operation: Broken Arrow (Original title: Broken Arrow ) is an American action film of director John Woo from the year 1996 . Broken Arrow is a military code word for the defect, which poses a danger to the public from the warhead, or accidental loss of a nuclear weapon .

action

The fighter pilot Major Deakins and his younger comrade Captain Hale are given the task of making a test flight with a stealth bomber with nuclear weapons on board in order to analyze their effects on stealth technology. But Deakins plans to take control of the bombs in order to blackmail the United States.

Killing Hale in the cockpit fails. Deakins can only catapult him out of the plane with the ejector seat . He releases the two bombs on parachutes, reports an emergency and leaves the crashing plane. He then meets a group of hired mercenaries and secures the bombs, while his people shoot the rescue team dispatched by the military.

Together with the ranger Terry Carmichael , Hale manages to escape from Deakins' people and steal the bombs from him. But Deakins guesses their place of escape, an old copper mine, and tracks them down there. He brings the nuclear weapons back under his control and detonates one of them in the mine. After Hale got in touch with the military with Terry's help, he finally succeeds in eliminating Deakin's people on his transport train and arresting him. In a duel he defuses the detonator of the nuclear bomb and jumps out of the train , which explodes shortly afterwards . Deakins is killed.

Reviews

“Action film specialist John Woo managed to take impressive shots against the backdrop of the Utah desert . He combines acrobatics and conflagrations with combative pathos to create a great action spectacle, which, however, is embedded in an all too simple and often varied world rescue story. "

- Lexicon of international film

“After becoming a living directing legend in Hong Kong, John Woo also wanted to break through in Hollywood . He wasn't granted that yet with 'Broken Arrow', but the film still has everything for which Woo was praised a year later with ' In the Body of the Enemy ': imaginative orgies of destruction, breathtaking speed and John Travolta as the action film villain - not as ' Pulp Fiction ' killer, but absolutely mean. "

- TV movie

Awards

1996 - BMI Film Music Award for Hans Zimmer
1996 - Nomination for the MTV Movie Award for John Travolta and Christian Slater for "best fight" and for John Travolta as "best villain".
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

Web links

Individual evidence

[1] Operation: Broken Arrow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[2] tvspielfilm.de

[3] Operation: Broken Arrow on fbw-filmbeval.com