An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Christofer de Oni
- Cortez
- (as Chris de Oni)
Tricia Heine
- Connie
- (as Patricia A. Heine)
Storyline
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- TriviaJeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones are good friends in real life. Also, they were both considered to play Snake Plissken in "Escape from New York (1981)" before Kurt Russell got the part.
- GoofsAt the beginning of the movie during the disarming of the bomb at MIT you had Dove and Cortez in the room with Nancy and one or more bomb squad personnel in the hallway. The bomb squad personnel all had to be there; Nancy did not. Why didn't Cortez or one of the other bomb squad personnel take over the keyboard from Nancy so that they could get her out of there? This just did not make sense.
- Quotes
Ryan Gaerity: I've come here to create a new country for you called chaos, and a new government called anarchy.
- Crazy creditsThis film is dedicated to the memory of Officer Jeremiah J. Hurley of the Boston Bomb Squad, and to the more than Three Thousand Certified Bomb Technicians throughout the world who risk their lives for our safety every day.
- Alternate versionsIn addition to your normal dialogue and language cuts, the TV version also edits the computer sequence so that the display does not cycle text on part of the monitor, whereas in the original version, there is text in that section, including a b-word used in a context that network TV likely would not have tolerated. Some parts of this sequence are also cropped so that just the typing is visible.
- ConnectionsEdited into Stealth Fighter (1999)
- SoundtracksWith or Without You
Written by U2 (Bono (as Paul Hewson), The Edge (as Dave Evans), Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. (as Larry Mullen))
Performed by U2
Courtesy of Island Records Ltd.
Featured review
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
..oh, hang on you mean this wasn't a joke?
Jimmy Dove is a Boston bomb disposal expert who quits to train rookies instead. However a series of bombs that seem familiar to him bring back old memories. He suspects that ex-IRA bomber Ryan Gaerity is behind it as part of a revenge attack and must stop him before he can kill again.
How many `bomber out for revenge' movies do we need. The reason Hollywood loves them is because we get an easy excuse for big explosions. However Blown Away fails on so many levels. First it tries to flesh out the characters but this doesn't work and only serves to slow things down. Secondly the action is silly and has no real suspense it's entertaining enough if you just want to see things blow up but if you want thrills or tension as well then you're in the wrong place. It's not all bad but the whole film just feels like it's half-baked, liked someone was stuck with a bad idea but did the best they could with it.
A personal bugbear of mine is this whole Hollywood obsession with the IRA why do characters always have to be `too crazy for the IRA' or have gone good form the IRA etc. How on earth ex-IRA member Dove gets into the Boston police force is the first joke but also the fact that Gaerity is `too crazy etc' is daft. Do the IRA put people out for bombing innocent people I think not ..hence the word `terrorist'.
Jeff Bridges is OK but really just runs round with a furrowed brow all the time. Jones is OTT, it's like he realises that this is crap and wants people to see his tongue is in his cheek. His Oirish accent is terrible and just made me laugh. The worse is Lloyd Bridges is he awake for most of this? The two funniest bits with him in it is where he is attached to some absurd bomb thing but, even funnier, is him in an Irish pub drinking some black watery liquid that's supposed to be Guinness! If I made the drink I would have sued! Quality people like Amis and Whitaker are just plain wasted.
OK some of the action is good and it's not all terrible but it's not very good. Whether it be the bad performances, bad plotting or just sheer silliness of the whole thing it lacks tension and it's too lame to get involved in.
How many `bomber out for revenge' movies do we need. The reason Hollywood loves them is because we get an easy excuse for big explosions. However Blown Away fails on so many levels. First it tries to flesh out the characters but this doesn't work and only serves to slow things down. Secondly the action is silly and has no real suspense it's entertaining enough if you just want to see things blow up but if you want thrills or tension as well then you're in the wrong place. It's not all bad but the whole film just feels like it's half-baked, liked someone was stuck with a bad idea but did the best they could with it.
A personal bugbear of mine is this whole Hollywood obsession with the IRA why do characters always have to be `too crazy for the IRA' or have gone good form the IRA etc. How on earth ex-IRA member Dove gets into the Boston police force is the first joke but also the fact that Gaerity is `too crazy etc' is daft. Do the IRA put people out for bombing innocent people I think not ..hence the word `terrorist'.
Jeff Bridges is OK but really just runs round with a furrowed brow all the time. Jones is OTT, it's like he realises that this is crap and wants people to see his tongue is in his cheek. His Oirish accent is terrible and just made me laugh. The worse is Lloyd Bridges is he awake for most of this? The two funniest bits with him in it is where he is attached to some absurd bomb thing but, even funnier, is him in an Irish pub drinking some black watery liquid that's supposed to be Guinness! If I made the drink I would have sued! Quality people like Amis and Whitaker are just plain wasted.
OK some of the action is good and it's not all terrible but it's not very good. Whether it be the bad performances, bad plotting or just sheer silliness of the whole thing it lacks tension and it's too lame to get involved in.
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- Jul 19, 2002
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- Also known as
- Nổ Tung
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- Budget
- $28,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $30,156,002
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,424,873
- Jul 4, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $30,156,002
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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