Drab and soft is the only way to describe this substandard video presentation. Detail is low, colors look slightly faded the majority of the time (although they are strong in some scenes), the print is riddled with grain, and the picture has an out of focus look. A few late shots show a minor advantage over a standard DVD, though these are brief. Broken Arrow isn’t old enough to excuse these flaws based on age. 
While the explosions are weak, lacking a hefty LFE punch, the surround work here is phenomenal. Action scenes are loaded with impressive visual effects, and debris from those same explosions moves wonderfully through the sound field. It’s a decent DTS-HD Master mix, but it carries a low fidelity sound that has trouble during high-end dialogue. 
The movie has never been given a true special edition, so it’s hardly a surprise the extras here are only a collection of trailers. The disc is also D-Box motion controlled if you have the proper equipment. (No stars)
As a side not, in the film, the term “broken arrow” means a nuke has been stolen from the United States. The actual term for this is “empty quiver.” The true meaning of "broken arrow" is that a nuke has been detonated without any danger of nuclear war, which ironically, does happen in the film.
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