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10/18/08
Con Air (1997)
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Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 32
Rotten:26
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.... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi
Director: Simon West
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10/18/08
Top CriticMega-budget action extravaganzas don't get much sillier than this.
09/18/08
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.
09/18/08
Top CriticThis frankly silly action movie scores major points for bordering on self-parody.
09/18/08
Top CriticVery cool, but also very cold.
06/24/06
Top Criticthe quintessential high-octane action flick
06/08/06
It's not exactly a spoof of action flicks, but everyone involved clearly has tongue wedged firmly within cheek.
05/12/06
Rude, crude, mindless action and nonstop gratuitous violence just don't get any better.
05/12/06
Bruckheimer may be the only producer working in Hollywood today who deserves the auteur treatment.
05/09/06
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.
04/28/06
This is a big, silly film. Is it full of explosions and one-liners? Of course. Is it entertaining? Of course.
12/06/05
The Hollywood ending hurts the film's integrity, diminishing what could easily have become a classic of the genre.
04/09/05
With West's confident competence, and Bruckheimer's reliable slickness, Con Air gets out of its own way and becomes a trash classic.
09/30/03
Jerry Bruckheimer should be thankful for the modern audience's short attention span.
08/25/03
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.
05/22/03
Cage carries the first action flick of the year that's worthy of topping the box-office charts.
05/20/03
Has a strange air of nonchalant wackiness about it that makes it hard not to like.
03/16/03
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