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Broken Arrow movie storyline. Major Vic Deakins (John Travolta) and Captain Riley Hale (Christian Slater), pilots in the United States Air Force, are assigned to a top secret exercise over Utah, flying a B-3 Stealth Bomber (a fictional iteration of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber) with two B83 nuclear bombs on board. After successfully evading Air Force radar, Deakins attacks Hale and ejects him out of the plane. Deakins then releases the bombs without detonating them and reports that Hale has gone rogue. He then ejects from the plane, leaving it to crash.
A search and rescue team is sent to recover the warheads. They do not find the warheads and report a “Broken Arrow”, a situation wherein nuclear weapons are missing. The team later locates the warheads in a canyon but are killed by mercenaries, including Sgt. Kelly (Howie Long), a corrupt member of the team. Deakins arrives moments later and plots his next move with Pritchett (Bob Gunton), the operation’s financier. They plan to blackmail the US government with the threat of detonating the warhead in a populated area.
Hale survives the ejection and is found by park ranger Terry Carmichael (Samantha Mathis). He convinces her to help him track down Deakins. After recovering the warheads and escaping to a nearby copper mine, Hale attempts to disable them by intentionally entering the arming code incorrectly. However, as Deakins had rigged the device, Hale’s actions instead arm the warhead. He hides the remaining one deep in an abandoned mine.
Deakins’ team arrive and secure the unarmed warhead. Deakins then shortens the detonation time and leaves Hale and Terry to die. A NEST team helicopter chases Deakins’ team. During the chase, Deakins kills Pritchett after he becomes fed up with the latter’s complaints. Hale and Terry escape from the mine via an underground river just before the bomb detonates. The bomb’s EMP destroys the NEST helicopter, allowing Deakins to escape. Terry and Hale track him to a motorboat used for transporting the warhead. While trying to steal the boat, Terry is forced to hide onboard while Deakins moves the warhead. Military forces rescue Hale.
Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action film directed by John Woo, written by Graham Yost, and starring John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, Bob Gunton, Howie Long, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jack Thompson, Shaun Toub. It deals with the theft of two American nuclear weapons.
Broken Arrow (1996)
Directed by: John Woo
Starring: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, Bob Gunton, Howie Long, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jack Thompson, Shaun Toub
Screenplay by: Graham Yost
Production Design by: Holger Gross
Cinematography by: Peter Levy
Film Editing by: Joe Hutshing, Steve Mirkovich, John Wright
Costume Design by: Mary Malin
Set Decoration by: Richard C. Goddard
Art Direction by: William F. O’Brien
Music by: Hans Zimmer
MPAA Rating: R for strong action violence and language.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: February 9, 1996
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