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  Review by Andrew Jupin ★★★★

  This rocked so hard. What a totally unapologetic disaster of a ridiculous movie, with completely unhinged performances and accents at every turn. Plus, multiple moments of legit, ass-clenching suspense.

  Hot dog, was that a thing of beauty.

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★★ 4

  The best part of this movie is when Tommy Lee Jones blows an old man into oblivion and then grins like he’s a little stinker. Perfect film.

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  Review by christian d ★★★½

  Jeff Bridges as a bomb disposal expert who is always running and screaming in slow-motion, Tommy Lee Jones as a mad irish bomber who drunkenly sings U2, a shit-ton of make-shift bombs and cataclysmic explosions and an hilarious soundtrack that mostly doesn't quite fit the movie in my opinion. Honestly, what's not to love? A perfect pairing with Live Wire (1992), wherein both rowdy and ridiculous films contain over-the-top baddies that are pulling off a series of targeted killings using nothing but explosives.

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★ 6

  Musik hat die unübertreffliche Angewohnheit – soweit es mich betrifft –, Filme oder Serien ein goldenes Kleid zu verpassen, vergleichbar wie der Wonderbra oder die Socke in der Hose, und eben wie diese zwei Metaphern, sind sie die goldbraune Panade wie die schmackhafte Marinade die über das durchgebratene, falsch geschnittene, übersalzene oder überhaupt nicht gesalzene Stück Fleisch, hinwegtäuscht.

  Ebenso hier, zog die Musik „Blow Away“ einen feinen Sprühnebel aus Gold über, den die ist wahrlich eine glatte Eins, wenn U2 oder Joe Cocker und Bekka Bramlett ihr Können zeigen. Dabei möchte Komponist Alan Silvestris für dessen große Leistung gewürdigt werden, er erkannte genau die Stärke seiner Arbeit, und die bestand eben darin, diesen Musikern ihre Bühne zu geben, was sie…

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  Review by Old Man Angelo ★★★ 1

  I initially started watching this because I needed a comedown from how hard Network got me, I only got an hour in before I headed to sleep and decided to finish it up last night. It’s the right kind of disposable 3 star action slop that I’m happy to chill out with, it’s pretty dumb but probably not excessively enough to warrant some kind of Con Air status. It’s just ok.

  This is infamous for its supposedly awful Tommy Lee Jones performance, but anyone hating on this hates good action villainy. Jones rocking out to U2 as he builds IEDs is the peak of Hollywood comedy and I’ll accept nothing to the contrary. This to my surprise is also apparently…

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  Review by AndrewC ★★★

  Blown Away is another 90s action film that belongs in the same league with such luminaries as Ricochet and Live Wire as being the most gleefully insane action movies that are just such great fun. I can't exactly say that this is a good film but it is just a delight thanks largely to the ridiculous performances from its cast. In the forms of Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones, the movie has two genuinely great actors chewing up the scenery with terrible Irish accents and preposterous dialogue, with the latter emerging with one of the most unhinged performances as a mad bomber. Indeed, the story is very routine and follows a lot of stereotypes (i.e. lots of wire-cutting and…

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  Review by Andrew Jupin ★★★★ 1

  Remains a completely over-the-top, wildly entertaining movie.

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  Review by Cusack ★★★

  Not amazing but good enough for what it is. It’s completely ridiculous but the thriller/action aspect is well done and the characters are fun to follow.

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  Review by IronWatcher ★★★

  Watched on Amazon Prime

  Jimmy Dove's a bomb squadman in Boston. When one day a colleague dies after a violent explosion, Jimmy realizes that Ryan Gaerity, with whom he once was in a radical splinter group of the IRA, is seeking revenge after years in prison.
  While Jimmy preserved his humanity by stopping mad Ryan and emigrated to the USA, Ryan's madness increased immeasurably in prison.

  In the 90s nobody played batshit crazy psychopathic villains like Tommy Lee Jones. His performance of the bomb-building madman is definitely the acting highlight of the movie and almost has something comic-like exaggerated about it. His opponent Jeff Bridges is also convincing.

  The ingenious booby traps reminded me of a mixture of the Saw…

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★ 1

  “Two mustards please, I like mine spicy!”; this walked so Arlington Road could run

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  Review by maneleeo ★★½

  While it has a lot to love, there is also a lot to dislike. But I gotta say, Tommy Lee Jones' accent here is freaking fantastic.

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  Review by Noel Penaflor ★★½

  2 of these stars are just for Tommy Lee Jones' Irish accent, which I'm sure he studied dutifully from various soap commercials.

  Filled with almost every mad bomber cliché you can think of, some even twice.

  Nepotism- Lloyd Bridges is cast as Jeff Bridges dad and Beau Bridges is cast as his sister.

  Before you decide to see this, you must first cut the red or the blue wire.

  To fuck with someone, there should be a purple wire.

  Lots of meaningless explosions but no real suspense.

  You will not be blown away, just merely blown.