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Con Air (1997)

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Reviews Counted:58

Fresh:33

Rotten:25

Average Rating:5.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting.... Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison transport plane--especially when, under the direction of ringleader Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, they revolt and hijack their own plane. Fortunately, our hero's been trained by the Army as an elite one-man-fighting-machine, and a dogged Justice Department agent waits on the ground to help him bring the fanatical fly-boys in for a bloody crash landing--in Vegas! A hyperactive Molotov cocktail blended from the frenetic efforts of high-octane action producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("The Rock"), hipster-schtick screenwriting specialist Scott Rosenberg, and music video director West. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Original Song ("How Do I Live"), and Best Sound. [More]

Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi

Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, Mykelti Williamson, Rachel Ticotin, Monica Potter, Dave Chappelle, M.C. Gainey, John Roselius, Renoly Santiago, Danny Trejo, Jesse Borrego, Nick Chinlund, Angela Featherstone, Jose Zuniga, Brendan Kelly, Carl Ciarfalio, Jerry Mongo Brownlee, Steve Eastin, Ned Bellamy, John Marshall Jones, Fredric Lane, Marty McSorley, Dylan Haggerty, Landry Allbright, Dan Bell, Robert J. Stephenson, Scott Ditty, Tommy Bush, Lauren Pratt, Steve Hulin, Don Charles McGovern, Doug Hutchison, Jeris Poindexter, David Ramsey, Conrad Goode, Emilio Rivera, Mario Roberts

Director: Simon West

Director: Simon West
Screenwriter: Scott Rosenberg
Composer: Mark Mancina, Trevor Rabin
Producer: Kenny Bates, Lynn Bigelow, Peter Bogart, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jim Kouf, Chad Oman

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Resolutely not boring.

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07/24/09
Rumsey Taylor
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10/18/08
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Mega-budget action extravaganzas don't get much sillier than this.

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09/18/08
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Rosenberg's sarcastic, tough-guy dialogue is full of lean-and-mean one-liners, and the superbly cast actors know how to milk them for all they're worth.

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09/18/08
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
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This frankly silly action movie scores major points for bordering on self-parody.

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09/18/08
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Very cool, but also very cold.

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06/24/06
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the quintessential high-octane action flick

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06/08/06
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
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It's not exactly a spoof of action flicks, but everyone involved clearly has tongue wedged firmly within cheek.

Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | comment Comment
05/12/06
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
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Rude, crude, mindless action and nonstop gratuitous violence just don't get any better.

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05/12/06
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Bruckheimer may be the only producer working in Hollywood today who deserves the auteur treatment.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
05/09/06
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Director Simon West pulls off the impossible task of having the film make constant fun of itself and its viewers while keeping the storyline grounded enough for emotional payoffs.

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04/28/06
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

This is a big, silly film. Is it full of explosions and one-liners? Of course. Is it entertaining? Of course.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Ron Wells
Ron Wells
Film Threat

The Hollywood ending hurts the film's integrity, diminishing what could easily have become a classic of the genre.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
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With West's confident competence, and Bruckheimer's reliable slickness, Con Air gets out of its own way and becomes a trash classic.

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09/30/03
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Jerry Bruckheimer should be thankful for the modern audience's short attention span.

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08/25/03
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
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I don't know how it happened, or what Simon West was thinking, but the first half of Con Air is brilliant and the second half is a non-stop climax, and a dimwitted one at that.

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05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Cage carries the first action flick of the year that's worthy of topping the box-office charts.

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05/20/03
Susan Tavernetti
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