The second of two major summer action adventure pictures involving bombs and the nut jobs who play with them--Jan DeBont's SPEED was first out of the gate--BLOWN AWAY is the more ambitious and less successful film. It's too high-minded to work as the proverbial roller-coaster, but it's
too slick and effects-oriented to pull off the weighty back story about the Irish Troubles and one tormented man's quixotic quest.
There's a sly, malicious psychopath loose in Boston, a mad bomber whose first triumph is an explosion at a bridge that kills Blanket (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), a member of Boston's elite bomb squad and the best friend of Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges), who'...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
121 mins