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Con Air (1997)

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Reviews Counted:10

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Rotten:7

Average Rating:5/10

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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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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They're 'the worst of the worst.' So's the movie.

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Peter Travers
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Numbing but not boring, it's finally more dispiriting than exhilarating, like a wild night of debauchery that leaves only a fearsome hangover for a souvenir.

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Kenneth Turan
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Los Angeles Times
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Massaging every demographic, this admittedly fast, funny and robustly acted progeny of The Rock exploits actions of killers and rapists -- then cynically sells family values with a lengthy wrap-up ballad.

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How's the movie? Big, loud, brutal and stupid, that's how it is.

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01/01/00
Charles Taylor
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Salon.com
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Sitting through this movie is like watching a dog running in circles chasing its tail -- the amusement factor dies quickly as the situation become repetitive.

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James Berardinelli
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All of the principals normally work in films more interesting and human than this one, which gives Con Air a touch of the subversive and turns it into a big-budget lark.

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Janet Maslin
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New York Times
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I kept thinking that if their budget were cut in half, they would have made a better picture. If the special effects department were put on a much stricter budget, the show might have had to develop the characters beyond caricature.

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Mick LaSalle
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The movie is essentially a series of quick setups, brisk dialogue and elaborate action sequences.

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