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Blown Away (1994)

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Opening within one month from each other in 1994, Blown Away invited many comparisons to Speed. Both are pyrotechnical displays involving mad bombers and a multitude of flying building debris and body parts. The cop and the mad bomber in this one are Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges), a veteran of the Boston Bomb Squad planning to retire from the force, and Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones), a revenge-crazed explosives expert who has recently escaped from a detention center in Northern Ireland. It seems

May 15, 2001

MGM Home Entertainment

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No one will be blown away by this formula thriller.

April 18, 2008 Comment
KPBS.org

One of the better suspense thrillers of the early 90's

May 12, 2005 Comment
Moviehole

Someone should tell director Stephen Hopkins that 'action thrillers' require one small ingredient--action.

January 5, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

you won't be

July 29, 2002 Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette

Annoyingly bereft of the whiz-bang action that a movie like this desperately needs. Still, Quaid does a darn good job.

July 26, 2002 Comments (2)
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Excellent action thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones as wonderfully crazy bomber and Jeff Bridges as bomb squad member with a past. While the mad bomber is taking out one after another of the hero's squad team with some really mean explosive devices the main character is struggling with his history. Sure, there are some

June 17, 2006
ironclad1609

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Not bad at all. The soundtrack was filled with U2 songs and it was quite fun to watch someone in the cast sing and 'dance' to it. Tommy Lee Jones plays the role of the mad Irish bomber who just got out of prison and has decided to target members of the Boston Police bomb squad, it just so happens that Jeff Bridges is

October 29, 2009
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