a steven segal be hammer out the template for the 90 action blockbuster with under siege and john woo be break his own ground with hard boil . woo extremely violent but anaesthetisingly romanticise chow yun fat vehicle be from the same stable . but with an entirely new international market sorry and audience in tow the hollywood call be inevitable . hard target come first . but this be the film design for the big audience and front by travolta . the whole thing take place in the utah desert with the exception of studio sequence for a mine and military control room . that because woo need space in which to blow thing up . inbetween explosion there an increasingly manic and wisecrack travolta and earnest but dull christian slater . with the possible exception of han zimmer woo tailor score it difficult to see if any money be spend anywhere else . 4/10 .