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Con Air
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Release : | 1997 |
Rating : | 6.9 |
Studio : | Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Touchstone Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Nicolas Cage John Malkovich John Cusack Ving Rhames Mykelti Williamson |
Genre : | Action Thriller Crime |
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Too much of everything
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
This kind of movie comes once in a lifetime,so don't miss. Really super, Direction,Screenplay,Cast,Sound design & mixing & production... But i missed this movie in Theaters...
I'm not a fan of big budget goofiness, but this pokes enough fun at itself to be enjoyable.No one really takes their goofy roles seriously in this convicts take over everything movie, and that's good.It's just shoot 'em up action, and funny lines.I could do without all the ignorant special effects and the fires and the explosions, but at least here the production team uses it all for laughs. It can't be taken seriously.It's best to call this a comedy, although a dark one.Nothing irritating in this movie, and the many subplots and supporting characters really helps this movie. Generally, it isn't good for movies to simply showcase actors (Superman III comes immediately to mind), but as in Superman III, it is for laughs. Though here it works better.
this is an awesome movie, you can't tell me otherwise. :B i always make my best bro dave watch it. he seems to like it too. i love it so much. i even have the bunny from the movie! but i think you should watch it sometime. my favorite part is the box part. put the bunny back in the box! hehe!
This film is slightly based on true air travels made to transfer convicted criminals. I think I don't need to say that the idea of a plane full of chains and bars, with criminals traveling like caged beasts, is pure fiction. Despite having a good cast and some regular action scenes, this film has a very poor quality. The script, written by Scott Rosenberg, is too unrealistic and implausible, starting with the totally stupid idea to fill a plane with crazy killers (one wearing a mask out of "Silence of the Lambs"), side by side with an arsenal of light weapons and fatty policeman full of donuts. This scenario could only end badly, making the hijacking too predictable. I don't understand how the police had so much difficulty in tracking the airplane with so many locators and covert surveillance devices available in that days, on the service of the writers and the director, Simon West. Starting from there, the film only gets worse, with a huge circus of unlikely and unbelievable scenes. The end is worthy of the Razzie Award that this film won.The film has a good cast led by Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich and John Cusack. Also participating, among others, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo, Renoly Santiago and Dave Chappelle. Nevertheless, none of the characters was particularly interesting with the exception of John Malkovich, who gave his Cyrus all the required malice and wickedness without allowing himself to explore a little more his evil. Some of the characters tries, mainly through dialogue, rehearse a few moments of humor, but it's a shot that backfired. The action scenes are truly impressive, but most merely to show-off, being clogged with special effects and sound. For posterity remains a regular action movie, able to entertain, which seeks to impress but ends up leaving us a bitter taste, like a good wine that was too long exposed to air.