I first watched Blown Away on VHS in 1995 and I was literally blown away at how exciting and thrilling the movie was. Fast forward to 2021, and the movie has not aged well over time. It was an inferior action thriller that was so unbearable and uninteresting that I didn't even bother finishing the movie.
Lieutenant Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges) is a member of the elite Bomb Squad with the Boston Police Department who has postponed his retirement when he finds himself on the trail of a serial bomber when bombs start popping up in Boston. The bomber turns out to be IRA terrorist Ryan Garrity (Tommy Lee Jones who undoubtedly has the worst Irish accent in movie history). Ryan Gaerity has escaped from an prison in Northern Ireland to settle a vendetta against Dove who is actually a former member of the IRA named Liam McGivney who is haunted by his past and is responsible for having Gaerity imprisoned following a horrific bombing. McGivney has changed his name to Dove and moves to Boston to leave his past behind and atone for his sins by defusing bombs and saving lives.
The plot was rubbish. There's so many plot holes the size of craters that look as if it was set off by a number of landmines. As if anyone would really believe that a former member of the IRA would take on a new identity and become a police officer. Anyway, it was one of the movies that expected you to suspend disbelief but it failed. The cliches didn't help the movie one bit either.
Stephen Hopkins who directed Predator 2 as well as several episodes of the TV series 24 was the right person to take the director's chair but wound up with an overcooked turkey. It probably didn't help the fact that the megahit Speed (1994) which was another movie involving a madman bomber was one of the biggest blockbusters of the year.
The rest of the cast includes Lloyd Bridges (Jeff Bridges' real life father), Suzy Amis, Forrest Whittaker, John Finn, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
I was very keen on revisiting Blown Away. As mentioned earlier in the review, after attempting to watch the movie I found my interest waning and I ended up stopping the movie. It was very disappointing that this movie has aged terribly. Instead of blowing me out of my seat like it did back in 1995, I found myself feeling dismayed and uninterested in my seat. It sucks, but it is what it is.
3/10.
Lieutenant Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges) is a member of the elite Bomb Squad with the Boston Police Department who has postponed his retirement when he finds himself on the trail of a serial bomber when bombs start popping up in Boston. The bomber turns out to be IRA terrorist Ryan Garrity (Tommy Lee Jones who undoubtedly has the worst Irish accent in movie history). Ryan Gaerity has escaped from an prison in Northern Ireland to settle a vendetta against Dove who is actually a former member of the IRA named Liam McGivney who is haunted by his past and is responsible for having Gaerity imprisoned following a horrific bombing. McGivney has changed his name to Dove and moves to Boston to leave his past behind and atone for his sins by defusing bombs and saving lives.
The plot was rubbish. There's so many plot holes the size of craters that look as if it was set off by a number of landmines. As if anyone would really believe that a former member of the IRA would take on a new identity and become a police officer. Anyway, it was one of the movies that expected you to suspend disbelief but it failed. The cliches didn't help the movie one bit either.
Stephen Hopkins who directed Predator 2 as well as several episodes of the TV series 24 was the right person to take the director's chair but wound up with an overcooked turkey. It probably didn't help the fact that the megahit Speed (1994) which was another movie involving a madman bomber was one of the biggest blockbusters of the year.
The rest of the cast includes Lloyd Bridges (Jeff Bridges' real life father), Suzy Amis, Forrest Whittaker, John Finn, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
I was very keen on revisiting Blown Away. As mentioned earlier in the review, after attempting to watch the movie I found my interest waning and I ended up stopping the movie. It was very disappointing that this movie has aged terribly. Instead of blowing me out of my seat like it did back in 1995, I found myself feeling dismayed and uninterested in my seat. It sucks, but it is what it is.
3/10.