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After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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One of the 'greatest' unintended comedies of all time. Holy Jheezhus! Not to be taken seriously. As Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman are my two favs actors, I expected a good movie, if not trite 'action' fare, but man o man, it is ridiculous. 1970's era special effects, terribly obvious green screens, stunts that violate the laws of physics....Should have been sponsored by Velveeta, the cheese factor is off the scale... from caricature bad guys to control panel display messages for the visually impaired, to the corny as hell 'narrative' radio messages, it is just a huge farce from beginning to end... lols-a-plenty for all!. Leslie Neilson would have been proud.

"Air Force One" starts out with the president of the United States in Moscow signing a no nonsense pact with the Russian premier in regards to dealing with terrorists. Harrison Ford, portraying the role of the president, has to soon wonder about his dealings as a group of Russian neo-nationalists have managed to hijack the presidential plane with him, his family, and other members of the government aboard. These hijackers desire the release from a Russian prison one of their central leaders in a coup against the current Russian premier and his government. With some discharge of weapons aboard the plane, and a few hostages killed, the suspense builds to a tension-filled ride. Finally, the president manages to turn the tide in his favor, but the plane, which was severely crippled in various systems, now has to piloted for a possible landing. And then, a traitor on board plays what could be a final card in this suspenseful game.Harrison Ford plays the president, Gary Oldman the leader of the terrorists, and other members of the cast include Glenn Close as the Vice President on the ground, William H. Macy as staff, Wendy Crewson as the president's wife, and Dean Stockwell as Secretary of Defense. All in all, a very good movie to view.

No matter how many times I see this film, I am always on the edge of my seat. The tension of wondering if the president will be rescued is just a small part of it. It's hard to believe that my emotions are always the same; I guess this is what makes a good film.Every actor in this film makes me believe they are who they are portraying from the military officers to the "future postmaster general". The scenes between the president and his daughter -- well they are priceless! And the President and First Lady moments just make me want to put these two in the White House. I also like Glenn Close's version of the Vice President Bennet and her faith in President Marshall.

"Air Force One" is among the best and one of my favorite action-thriller films. Harrison Ford fits to a tee the image of a modern-day Errol Flynn. Of course the plots for these types of terrorist-criminal-action films are quite far-fetched. So to make them at all believable, the script writers have to find ingenious ways that such capers might be pulled off. And that makes for a lot of mystery and fun entertainment in the movie. The plot and script for this film are excellent, and all the cast play their roles very well. The cinematography, CGI and special effects are tops. "Jurassic Park" was the first film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide in 1993, and "Titanic" in 1997 was the first film to gross more than $2 billion in worldwide box office receipts. Only four other films that year grossed more $300 million, and "Air Force One" came in fifth at just over $300 million. I don't know if it was intended or not, but one aspect of the film clearly harkened back to a recent global event that was the shame of world leaders, including the U.S. and United Nations. This was a poignant scene in this film. Ford, as U.S. President James Marshall, attends a celebration banquet in Moscow. It is honoring him for his efforts to capture a former Soviet general who was now a tyrant dictator of a former satellite country, Kazakhstan. General Alexander Radek was a threat to freedom and world peace. Ford said he visited refugee camps that day, and he departed from his prepared speech. "We were too late," he said. "The Radek regime murdered over 200,000 men, women and children as we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for a year. We issued economic sanctions and hid behind the rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we! The dead remember. Real peace is not just the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice. Tonight I come to you with a pledge to change America's policy. Never again will I allow our political self- interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right."The description in this scene had an uncanny resemblance to an actual event just three years earlier. The Rwanda genocide took place in 1994. Some 800,000 men, women and children were slaughtered by a majority ethnic group in that nation while the U.S. and United Nations looked on. The movie, "Hotel Rwanda" in 2004 is about that genocide. It portrays UN peace-keeping troops who are standing by as the carnage takes place in front of them. They were not permitted to use force to stop the killing. In one poignant scene in that film, we hear a radio broadcast in the background with U.S. President Bill Clinton talking about diplomatic efforts to try to stop the genocide. But the killing continued for nearly three months. The White House had known about the uprising before it started, but kept quiet about it to justify its inaction. Clinton later said that the failure of the U.S. to intervene in the genocide was one of his main foreign policy failures. In 2000, the UN explicitly stated that its reaction to the situation in Rwanda was a failure. Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said "The international community failed Rwanda and that must leave us always with a sense of bitter regret."One must wonder about the state of terrorist activities in the world today. Will force be necessary to stop the killing and carnage? Will the U.S. president and other world leaders have the gumption to use force to stop the tyranny, to save thousands of lives, and to protect innocent people? As a world super power, does the U.S. have a moral duty to help protect our brother human beings in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and elsewhere? Today, whole cultures and ethnic groups are under attack and being killed in several nations around the world. But, so far, there seems to be little humanitarian interest among world leaders to use force if necessary to stop the carnage. So, we impose economic sanctions, and use diplomatic gestures while thousands of innocent children, women and men are being murdered or driven from their homes. Ford's talk in "Air Force One" was an inspiring moment that would make any American and most other people proud of being human. I'm glad that Hollywood at times can come up with social dialog that's so fitting for our times. It's too bad when the film industry sees the reality of the world, but our political leaders don't – or they don't have the courage and strength to act for the protection of the innocent. Will we learn from our past or not?