Short Film Review: Hawkeye: The Broken Arrow. Directed by Thomas Howe Meehan

Hawkeye: The Broken Arrow is a non-profit, non-monetized passion-project, that has been in production for over three years. No profit is generated or derived from this fan film making this film completely legal to be shown existing in a legal grey area between the category of fair use and/or parody law.

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Review by Andie Kay:

This was a massive undertaking for Thomas Meehan who wrote, directed, produced, edited and handled cinematography. A fan fiction short film surrounding Marvel Avenger Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, aka Ronin before he was ever recruited by Nick Fury for S.H.I.E.L.D.


The premise of the story is a solid idea and Thomas starts this film out strongly, setting up Hawkeye’s backstory and places the audience in the past. Joshua White did some really nice camera work and cinematography here and we have Thomas portraying a
young Clint Barton. Abruptly we experience a smash cut to Ronin without knowing the year or any context.

If you are a major geek girl like myself, you will know the canon and find it odd that Ronin is so young. I do love the idea of
exploring a young Clint Barton’s life and what led to his recruitment with S.H.I.E.L.D. I wish it was focused more on that.


The attention to detail in the costuming and props was fantastic. I was really tickled they added in the Tracksuit Mafia and what the filmmakers did with the stunt work was really great. The VFX and special effects that were used were integrated so well and it helped sell the film.


You can tell that these filmmakers really care about Hawkeye/Ronin and how can you not? Jeremy Renner is amazing. His performance and the MCU inspired such awesome creativity with this film and I hope that Thomas and his crew keep creating.

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