Blown Away (1994)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.8/10   

Director:

Stephen Hopkins

Escritores (WGA):

John Rice (story) &
Joe Batteer (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1 julio 1994 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

The fuse has been lit...

Plot:

An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Irish | Ireland | Ship | Revenge

Premios:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A better 'bomb' movie than Speed.

Reparto

Jeff Bridges	...	James 'Jimmy' Dove / Liam McGivney
Tommy Lee Jones	...	Ryan Gaerity
Suzy Amis	...	Kate Dove
Lloyd Bridges	...	Max O'Bannon
Forest Whitaker	...	Anthony Franklin
Stephi Lineburg	...	Lizzy
John Finn	...	Capt. Fred Roarke
Caitlin Clarke	...	Rita
Christofer de Oni	...	Cortez (as Chris de Oni)
Loyd Catlett	...	Bama
Ruben Santiago-Hudson	...	Blanket
Lucinda Weist	...	Nancy
Brendan Burns	...	Kevin
Patricia A. Heine	...	Connie
Josh McLaglen	...	Prison Guard

También conocida como:

Volar por los aires (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some language.

Duración:

121 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Irish Gaelic

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Canada:14A (Ontario) | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12 | Finland:K-14 | Germany:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Singapore:PG | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Iceland:14 (original rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

The shockwave from the exploding ocean liner shattered 8,000 windows in East Boston.

Errores:

Misceláneos: When Gaerity orders Guinness in the Irish bar, what he is served is more like lager (totally wrong color and consistency) yet this doesn't seem to faze him.

Citas:

Ryan Gaerity: I've come here to create a new country for you called chaos, and a new government called anarchy.

Conexiones de Película:

Editado en Stealth Fighter (1999)

Banda de Sonido:

With or Without You

A better 'bomb' movie than Speed.

Most IRA movies made in Hollywood are always criticised for the actors not sounding like real Irishmen. I have never once found this to be true and certainly not for Blown Away. Tommy Lee Jones is quite convincing as a deranged bomber who goes after Jeff Bridges in revenge for betraying him 25 years earlier.

Stephen Hopkins uses his fave cinematographer and composer Peter Levy and Alan Silvestri to bring some visual style and a powerful musical score to accompany the action and explosion scenes. The final encounter between Jones and Bridges is WAY cool. Trust me. It's one of the best showdowns in history.

A cool use of widescreen photography captures a pleasant and eye-pleasing view of Boston. I only ever saw this city in Cheers previously and now it makes wanna visit. This film was overlooked in the summer of 1994 because the audience was too busy with the other BOMB movie Speed. By that I mean movies with bombs. Not movies that are bombs. Speed was about a bomber wanting money. But Blown Away is a more personal, character-driven film and definitely the superior of the two.