Its central enigma is supposed to be: How can bomb squad member Jeff Bridges stop mad bomber Tommy Lee Jones before he blows up everyone Bridges loves, and half of Boston along with them? In actual fact, the puzzle is: How does Jones have enough time to rig such intricate and labyrinthine schemes? What does he really want to do? Get revenge, or win the Westinghouse Science Search? The movie is essentially a thriller about brave cops against a mad bomber, but there's a back story about how the characters played by Bridges and Jones met 20 years ago in Ireland, where Jones was a bomber and Bridges was his student. "Blown Up" is the kind of movie that people should be sentenced to see if they complain that " Speed" is implausible. Jones has rigged an abandoned ship with a Rube Goldberg device in which bottles topple over, and balls roll down chutes, and switches and levers are triggered, and eventually a bomb will be set off. The mad bomber ( Tommy Lee Jones) holds a remote control device which will blow up Jeff Bridges' girlfriend while she plays violin for the Boston Pops. A retired cop ( Lloyd Bridges) is chained to a piece of playground equipment and wired to a bomb.
" No points for figuring out that at the speed of electricity, if one of them is the smallest fraction of a second behind the other one.
The tension mounts as they do the countdown: "Three. The only recourse is for the threatened cop (Forrest Whitaker) and his partner ( Jeff Bridges) to separately and simultaneously cut two wires. A member of the bomb squad is listening to a Walkman which, alas, has been rigged with a bomb, so that if he removes the earphones his head will be blown off. A mad bomber is loose in Boston, and there are more diabolical schemes afoot. No points for guessing which will come first, since at typing speed she would have to pound the keyboard for many long months to exhaust the memory of most hard disks.īut wait. Now, Dove is the only one who can stop Gaerity.At one point, early in "Blown Away," a tearful student at MIT is about to be blown up because her computer has been rigged with a bomb that will explode, the dialogue explains, "when the hard drive runs out of available bytes" or when she stops typing. Gaerity, who has now taken up residence in an abandoned gambling ship called the Dolphin, has decided to get revenge on Dove, and Gaerity started terrorizing the bomb squad by killing Blanket. Gaerity was arrested, tried, and imprisoned until his escape. Liam escaped from Ireland and made his way to America, where he changed his name to Jimmy Dove. Liam tried to stop Gaerity from detonating the bomb, but bomb device went off, killing a lot of people, including Gaerity's sister. Liam helped Gaerity build a bomb, then he realized that Gaerity intended to detonate it on a crowded street. Gaerity recruited him and taught him to build bombs, and Gaerity conceived a terrorist plan that went terribly wrong. Dove was born Liam McGivney, and he used to be a naive Irish patriot. Gaerity was furious: it's because of Dove that he's spent years in prison. Gaerity has fled to Boston, where he saw Dove, who had just disarmed a bomb planted in a MIT computer lab, painted as a reluctant hero on TV. Gaerity has escaped from the maximum security Castle Gleigh prison in Ireland, using a bomb made from ingredients that include blood, wool, and a porcelain toilet. Haunted by grisly flashbacks, Dove soon figures out the identity of the bomber - Irish explosives expert Ryan Gaerity, a man who is so radical in his views that even the IRA wants nothing to do with him. Dove has just retired from the bomb squad to marry a violinist named Kate, who has an 11-year-old daughter named Elizabeth.
#Blown away 1994 serial
There's a serial bomber loose in Boston, and he has killed Blanket, a member of Boston's bomb squad and the best friend of explosives expert Jimmy Dove.
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