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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Broken Arrow delivers the hippest action fun around. Travolta's "Dr. Strangelove" exit will blow you away. Ditto the movie. Read full review

  • 88
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    There are lapses in character motivation, and at times the film takes on a cartoony feeling. But if you worry about those things, you shouldn't be watching action movies. For its genre, Broken Arrow is a class act. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Woo has turned out a slick piece of business, filled with explosions and assorted acts of violence brought off with considerable movie-making skill. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Janet Maslin

    Mr. Woo orchestrates his giddy, daring stunts on a newly spectacular level. There's plenty of physical audacity on screen. Read full review

  • 60
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Joy has been replaced by a sense of laboriousness, even though the action sequences move along energetically enough and the movie does have moments of comic-book charm. [9 Feb 1996, p.A12] Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    One fundamental problem with the movie is that John Travolta is seriously miscast as a nuclear terrorist. Say what you will about the guy, he doesn't come across as a heavy. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    With its lightweight hero and its random spray of ''high-powered'' action, Broken Arrow is like an underpopulated version of The A-Team. It's not just John Woo who gets swallowed up by the impersonal mechanics of big-budget mayhem. It's the audience, which pays for a sleek, dark thriller and gets recycled pulp instead. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Though John Travolta and Christian Slater don boxing gloves to open the dippy but zippy Broken Arrow, the real slugfest in director John Woo's elaborately mounted action pic is between content and style. Call it a draw, and call the movie's content a Speed derivative. [9 Feb 1996, p.1D] Read full review

  • 0
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Broken Arrow, a deafening, brain-deadening action thriller, takes a mighty blase approach to nuking Denver. Read full review

  • 0
    Washington Post |

    Arrow is about as abysmal as abysmal gets. Read full review

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