AndrewC’s review published on Letterboxd:
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 ticking timers) but none of that matters when it's so fun. Jones himself makes the whole worth watching just for his antics and crazy accent, as Blown Away is simply a fun, ridiculous blast of an actioner with great set pieces and enough tension to make it effective. As a bonus, it's also got some of the funniest U2 needle drops ever put into a movie that had me busting a gut laughing.
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