Reception
Broken Arrow was No. 1 at the North American box office its opening weekend grossing $15.6 million. It stayed on top for a second week and ultimately had a domestic gross of $70,770,147 and an international gross of $79,500,000, for a total worldwide gross of $150,270,147.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Based on 30 reviews collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 53 percent of critics gave Broken Arrow a positive review (16 "Fresh"; 14 "Rotten"), with an average rating of 5.9 out of 10. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 61, based on 21 reviews.
During his review of the film on Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, Gene Siskel changed his vote for the first and only time, giving the film a "thumbs down" after hearing Roger Ebert's criticisms.
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