Directed by:
John Woo

Starring:
John Travolta as Vic Deakins
Christian Slater as Riley Hale
Samantha Mathis as Terry Carmichael
Delroy Lindo as Colonel Max Wilkins
Bob Gunton as Pritchett
Frank Whaley as Giles Prentice
Howie Long as Kelly
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Lt. Colonel Sam Rhodes
Jack Thompson as Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Vyto Ruginis as Johnson

• The military uses "Empty Quiver'' to refer to a misplaced nuclear weapon, not "Broken Arrow''.

• Helicopter rotor blades do not rotate freely even when the engine is off, and hence could not be spun with a kick.

• Obvious physics problems with the momentum of the bomb that impales Deakins.

• The electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear blast travels at the speed of light, and hence should have arrived at the helicopter before the shock wave.

• Parachuting out of a disabled plane is not a crime, even if you do land in a national park.

• Hale shoots at the pilot in the gunship and the bullet penetrates and breaks the lower glass window and kills the pilot. Later on the gunship's window is unbroken as it crashes.

• The parachutes on the nuclear missiles change from white to black.

• When Deakins sets the bomb for 13 minutes, he smashes the keypad to bits. At the moment of detonation, the keypad shown is undamaged.

• The bomb countdown changes from 23 minutes to 26 minutes.

• In the B3's cockpit, the graphic showing the position of the weapons loader has the nukes one slot apart; in cuts to the cargo bay, they are physically positioned right next to each other on the rotating rack.

• When the truck carrying Deakins tries to push the other truck off the street, the mudguard and headlight on the right side get damaged, yet are merely burnt in later scenes.

• The helicopter shoots at the truck from the side, yet bullet holes can be seen later that enter the front and leave the back.

• 24:00 can be seen after 23:00 in the countdown sequence.

• The desert was broken up after a nuclear blast, and yet appeared in perfect shape when the HMMV drove off.

• Terry's clothes and hair are dry and tidy after her swim in the river.

• Terry removes her jacket and jumps off the burning train, but is soon wearing her jacket again.

• Boxes on the train car are shown engulfed in flames and burning, then are undamaged as soon as the fire dies down.

• Deakins' facial and shoulder wounds heal as he fights with Hale.

  - Adrian J (all above)

• In the movie the pilots push a button which put the plane into "stealth mode", there is no such thing. A plane is stealthy because of its shape. This means you can't turn stealth on and off. - Wakt Hendy
  • Comment: In the planes cockpit the button for stealth is for reducing the engines heat signature and noise levels much in the way a sub runs silent therefore making it more stealthy. - frost

• The handgun Travolta uses on the train is a beretta 93r machine pistol which has either a single or three shot burst, but he fires it in fully automatic. - frost