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John Cusack

John Malkovich

Ving Rhames

Mykelti Williamson

Dave Chappelle

Colm Meaney

Monica Potter

Landry Allbright

Rachel Ticotin

Steve Buscemi

Nick Chinlund

M.C. Gainey

Danny Trejo

Renoly Santiago

Steve Eastin

Brendan Kelly

Jesse Borrego

Carl Ciarfalio

Mongo Brownlee

José Zúñiga

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John Marshall Jones

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Fredric Lehne

Martin McSorley

Dan Bell

Bob Stephenson

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Lauren Pratt

Steve Hulin

Don C. McGovern

Angela Featherstone

Doug Hutchison

Jeris Poindexter

David Ramsey

Conrad Goode

Emilio Rivera

Mario Roberts

Ty Granderson Jones

Earl Billings

Greg Collins

Billy Devlin

Mark Ginther

Joseph Patrick Kelly

Jeff Olson

Dawn Bluford

Charlie Paddock

Randee Barnes

Don S. Davis

Barbara Sharma

Thomas Rosales Jr.

Eddie Perez

Scott McCoy

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Alexandra Balahoutis

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Robert Taft

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Bill Cusack

Dabbs Greer

Marco Kyris

Kevin Gage

Dennis Burkley

Matthew Barry

Scott Rosenberg

Dylan Haggerty

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Simon West

Debra Echard

David Tattersall

Jerry Bruckheimer

Janet Brady

Tony Epper

Matsune Suzuki

Steve Kelso

David Emmerichs

Jonathan Hensleigh

Peter Bogart

Chris Lebenzon

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David Goldberg

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Mark Mancina

Erma Kent

Karin Anderson

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George Watters II

Kathy Nelson

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Robert Powell

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Gary Price

Kim Renee

Lee Waddell

Tim Werner

Kevin Eldridge

Joel Kramer

Alan Oliney

Peter McKernan Jr.

Roger Wells

Garfield Wedderburn

Tom Bruggemann

Christian J. Fletcher

Hash Shallan

Jessica Winther

Allen Kupetsky

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Erik Cord

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Con Air

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Jerry Bruckheimer Films

United States of America

Silly perfection! 

Having just watched this again after twenty-odd years, as it's now available in 4k. My god, Hollywood was great back in the day.

This movie is stupid, silly, over-the-top everything, and wholly implausible. But it doesn't matter. It's 100% honest wholesome fun, like an action comic for boys in men's bodies. It's got everything, and everything's like a love letter.

I want Criterion to add this to their collection and have some of their film historians create commentary tracks for it.

This movie is now in my top ten, and I'll watch at least ten times more.

10/10

CinemaSerf

This takes forever to get going, but once the plot gets the establishing twenty minutes out of the way, it's actually quite a decent adventure story. Ranger Nicolas Cage ("Poe") gets embroiled in a fatal brawl that lands him in jail. Out on his parole, he gets caught up in a highly sophisticated prison break planned by "Cyrus" (John Malkovich) - intent on hijacking their prison flight and executing a complicated onwards escape plan before the pursuing Colm Meaney ("Agent. Malloy") and an heavily armed squad of soldiers track them down. Luckily for Cage, and the authorities, John Cusack ("Agent Larkin") is on hand to help guide in the Feds as time marches on, and Cage's predicament becomes even more precarious. Malkovich makes for quite a good scheming baddie; there is plenty of action, a little bit of humour, pyrotechnics and the last half hour consists of pretty decent, entertaining, end-to-end stuff. Nothing remotely cerebral, but it's still an enjoyable film that finds a use for a snow plough in the desert! Soundtrack is quite good, too.

Andre Gonzales

Great movie. One of my favorites growing up. Action packed with a great storyline. Great cast too.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. I have the only gun on board. Welcome to Con Air.

Hummingbird Humdinger.

Con Air is directed by Simon West and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich. Plot sees Cameron Poe (Cage), a parolee on his way home to his wife and daughter after serving years in prison for manslaughter. He's travelling on a plane full of the most dangerous criminals currently being held in America, they are being transferred to some new super prison. Inevitably something goes wrong and the cons take over the plane, with only Poe standing between them and freedom.

No doubt about it, Con Air is one of the most over the top action film's you are ever likely to see. But it knows it is, it embraces it - and positively revels in it. What we have is a bunch of sicko's and psycho's on a plane, their roll call of crimes as gargantuan as the excess of explosions and quips are. Down on the ground are a frantic John Cussack and an angry Colm Meaney, the play off between the two almost as funny as the shenanigans on the plane - where characters called Billy Bedlam (Nick Chinlund), Cyrus The Virus (Malkovich) & The Marietta Mangler (Steve Buscemi) push mania to a new level.

Enter director West, who clearly under orders from Bruckheimer, unleashes a barrage of explosive set pieces, each one more outrageous than the last. It's neatly edited and paced like a good action movie should be. There's also no small amount of tension to sidle along side the white knuckle thrills. As Cage strips down to his Bruce Willis vest we have a real likable hero to get on side with, yes it's played tongue in cheek, very much so, but his character has been so well written by Scott Rosenberg we really forgive the ridiculousness of each heroic act. Also along the for the ride are Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, M.C. Gainey & Rachael Ticotin, the latter of which does admirably well as the lone female surrounded by 800 tonnes of testosterone.

Junky nonsense as a story for sure, but just like the cast are having a blast of a time with it, so too should the discerning action comedy fan. 7.5/10

Dark Jedi

This is one of those movies which are simply good solid entertainment. The fact that I do like Nicolas Cage, even though he is at times really lousy at choosing which movies he participate in, is of course an additional plus.

Naturally I do like the performance of Nicolas Cage in this movie but John Malkowich is also great as the main bad guy and Steve Buscemi is perfect as the nutcase although his role could have been a bit more expanded upon. The rest of the actors are doing nicely as well although it always saddens me to see Colm Meaney playing a dumbass and/or bad guy after his role in Star Trek.

The story is not really bad although it has the usual Hollywood mistakes here and there. The ease by which they pick locks in this high security flight is somewhat laughable and I seriously doubt that they would have been able to haul the plane out of that desert junkyard in flyable condition in real life for instance. Still, it is not a bad story and it works for moving the movie forward.

There are plenty of action and it is mostly quite entertaining. Sometimes it is a bit silly and rather unrealistic of course but, as I wrote, mostly it is quite entertaining. The ending is definitely a bit on the silly side with the plane touching down on the Las Vegas Strip. This bit felt like the producers realized that they had some FX budget left and just had to burn it.

Anyway, on the whole a quite entertaining movie.

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