Stealth bomber pilots John Travolta and Christian Slater are on a practice
mission flying around a desert in the western United States when Travolta tries
to murder Slater and then ejects him so he can steal the two nuclear weapons on
board. From that point on, it's just these two numbnuts (and various
unimportant bad guys) battling it out in the desert. Only thing is, since
it's a huge desert and the writing is so poor, they have to constantly telling
each other their plans or they would never see each other ever again.
Also, they repeatedly get the other one dead to rights, but hold off long enough
to smirk and let the other one get away! At one point there is a fucking
nuclear bomb counting down just a few feet away and Slater actually has a tire
jack in his hand, cocked to cave in Travolta's skull, but he puts it down and
punches him instead. That kind of shit is enough to drive a logical person
batty, but like any good train wreck you can't take your eyes off it.
Travolta hams it up
nonstop to the point where you begin to believe he's
fucking with the audience, Slater gets a forest ranger sidekick, explosions all
over the joint, lots of gunfire and not many people getting hit, zero nudity,
overacting, helicopters exploding, train exploding, absolutely horrible boxing
scene, cheesy special effects, slow motion overdose, shooting two guns at
once.
Honestly, BROKEN ARROW is awful...but still a fun watch. Hell, I own the
damn thing.
