Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 14
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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 5
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In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His suspicions are soon confirmed; Hassan's men have obtained a large cache of stolen Soviet nerve gas, and they are using the 747 to smuggle the deadly gas into the United States, where they intend to use it to
Jun 1, 1995 Wide
Aug 27, 1997
Warner Home Video
All Critics (45) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (14) | DVD (4)
Satisfying junk food.
Deliciously turbulent.
For uncomplicated excitement, the film offers a solid one-hundred thirty minutes.
A movie for people who are sophisticated enough to know how shameless the film is, but fun-loving enough to enjoy its excesses and manic zeal.
A good, taut movie for red-meat action audiences.
It doesn't always work, but there's something inspiring about Baird's unwillingness to follow the usual formula.
A smart, adult thriller...
It finally gives us what Hollywood has been threatening for years, the movie nobody was waiting for: Airport '96.
A nerve-racking thriller that's more topical today than it was in 1996.
Take a late-blooming action star and an action hero whose career is in a downslide, and you get an action film seriously lacking in... action.
Laughably, inexcusably, abjectly awful. How can I even count the ways?
Seagal's best movie - due largely in part to the fact that he's barely in it.
Although the formula may be old, it is expertly handled.
A dishearteningly jingoistic thriller, saved by sharp action scenes and a few decent surprises.
Russell plays this role very well, relying more on his intellectual image than muscles in the same manner as his character who uses more brain and less physical power to achieve his task.
Terrorists vs. the U.S. of A. at 5 miles high as an international flight is hijacked for nefarious ends. Can it be stopped in time? Typical actioner done well with decent performances.
October 7, 2011Super Reviewer
A fun action film, even with Steven Seagall kicking in the bucket within ten minutes.
September 8, 2007
Super Reviewer
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