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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★★ 5

  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 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 Christian Di Leo ★★★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 gregs1999 ★★★★

  Goddamn, I freakin loved this film. Tommy Lee Jones pushed his Two-Face role even further, and was amazing, positively crazy. Jeff Bridges was incredible. The whole film kept me in tender hooks, so much tension. The scene of them walking around the house, not knowing what could be a bomb, chef’s kiss.

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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 Justin LaLiberty ★★★ 1

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

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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 Brian Saur ★★★½

  SPEED was released on June 10th, 1994. It made a lot of money. BLOWN AWAY was released less than a month later on July 1st, 1994. It made less money and has been somewhat forgotten since then. Both films feature mad bombers with a grudge, but Tommy Lee Jones totally says “Hold my Beer” to Dennis Hopper’s madman and takes vengeance up several notches when he goes after Jeff Bridges, his family and the rest of the Boston Police Bomb squad. He’s unhinged and out of control (as is his Irish accent) and even though things might get a little ridiculous by the end, it’s a fun ride and worth a revisit. The film is directed by the reliable Stephen…

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  Review by Andrew Jupin ★★★★ 1

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

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  Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★½

  "Blown Away" is a 1994 crime thriller directed by Stephen Hopkins. In a narrative that brings the world of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) to the U.S. neighborhoods of Boston, the film plays into the world of mad bombers and bomb squad units. Tommy Lee Jones plays the films antagonist, Ryan Gaerity, who has spent years held up in a prison building intensity and hatred for the causation that got him captured. The causation is that of his former ally (the film's protagonist Jeff Bridges) in the fight, Liam McGivney, who has moved stateside under the persona of Lt. Jimmy Dove. Unkown to the Boston Police Force, Dove has turned his destructive past into that of saving lives and disarming…

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  Review by MichaelEternity ★★★★

  Even better than I remember from several viewings in the '90s, this is high quality action thriller bombast that needn't take a back seat to its more successful simul-released '94 twin "Speed". Both are about bomb squads, take place in distinct cities, are filmed with total panache, and have a grand scenery-chomping villain fiddling with detonators, but "Blown Away" is a bit more emotional and adult compared to the eager puppy-dog theatrics of the (great) Keanu Reeves classic.

  Rooted in the history of the IRA and has that Boston mixture of swagger and melancholy, but still a melodramatic and absurd ride. Just darker-tinged, visually and thematically. It's got grit, it's got at least 4 Oscar-winning actors (Bridges, Jones, Forest Whitaker,…

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★★½

  A cable staple for a reason, as it delivers straight ahead programmer beats you've come to expect from this sort of '90s thriller with ruthless efficiency, while giving two of the decade's very best actors a playgound on which to goof around with their respective personas from the time. It's fun to track how both Bridges and Jones have respectively evolved from their somewhat unhinged glory days - though it's more iconic, Tommy Lee might've actually bested the insanity of UNDER SIEGE with this movie's mad bomber - while Stephen Hopkins overloads everything with some rather impressive style (all that slo-mo!) and practical explosions (the climactic boat detonation being one of the best ever committed to screen). One part BACKDRAFT,…