Blown Away

1994
R
2h 1m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

35K

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Tommy Lee Jones and Jeff Bridges in Blown Away (1994)

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Cop Drama Dark Comedy Psychological Thriller Action Crime Drama Thriller

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.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

35K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Blown Away

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Trivia
Jeff 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.

Goofs
At 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 credits
This 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 versions
In 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.

Connections
Edited into Stealth Fighter (1999)

Soundtracks
With 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.

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Deserved better than it got.

"Blown Away" obviously suffered in comparison to "Speed" since both films were released the same year during the same summer. I never really considered this a pure action film more than a suspense thriller. Things aren't blowing up every 10 minutes and the characters are more deep and interesting here than in a lot of your mindless action romps. I found Jeff Bridges desire to resume a normal life in Boston after his questionable "IRA-like" activities back home in Ireland appealing and his lovely fiancee played by Suzy Amis very likeable. Tommy Lee Jones has a great Irish accent and the lunatic he plays is great fun to watch. Lloyd Bridges as Jeff's uncle and Boston cop Forest Whittaker are equally appealing. My home-town newspaper, "The Dayton Daily News" gave the film 3 stars. I'd say that's about right.

No sequels please!