Con Air

1997 "They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings."
6.9| 1h56m| R| en| More Info
Released: 06 June 1997 Released
Producted By: Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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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.

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lukerhinehart-29904 The excelent story and amazing comedy. Nicolas Cage does a great job as the worst speaking man of the world and an excelent family man with bunny tow. Great character arcs with an excell starring cast Steve is a great cast for the evil mann. and whomstever jhon malcovich is was good too. out of an all 10 of 10 10 movie
J Besser This is mean fun stuff. It changed Nick Cage from a semi-romantic comedic lead into a movie bad ass. Fun characters played by a great cast. The pacing, the music and the laughs are dead on. The action is over-the-top. This is an action movie women will watch and really enjoy.
Isabel Cooke I have watched this movie 4 times this year (it is March) and I took two film classes. I got As in both my film classes. Here are the hottest characters: Steve Buscemi, Swamp Thing. Those are my top two, no doubt. I don't understand how anyone could watch this movie and come out with a different opinion. One time I convinced someone that Swamp Thing was hot. At first she did not see it but the power of suggestion is a powerful power indeed.
Filipe Neto 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.