
Cameron Poe, a highly decorated Army Ranger, comes home to Alabama to his wife Tricia, only to run into a few drunken regulars at the bar where she works. Cameron accidentally kills one of the drunks, and is sent to a federal penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter for seven years. He becomes eligible for parole and can now go home to his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, Cameron has to share a prison airplane with some of the country's most dangerous criminals, who take co... (Full plot summary below)
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Cameron Poe, a highly decorated Army Ranger, comes home to Alabama to his wife Tricia, only to run into a few drunken regulars at the bar where she works. Cameron accidentally kills one of the drunks, and is sent to a federal penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter for seven years. He becomes eligible for parole and can now go home to his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, Cameron has to share a prison airplane with some of the country's most dangerous criminals, who take control of the plane and are now planning to escape the country. Cameron has to find a way to stop them while playing along. Meanwhile, United States Marshal Vince Larkin is trying to help Cameron get free and stop the criminals, led by Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.
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| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinBruckheimer may be the only producer working in Hollywood today who deserves the auteur treatment. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordThe Hollywood ending hurts the film's integrity, diminishing what could easily have become a classic of the genre. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestI liked the way the film is crafted. Simon West is no artist, but he's got the Bruckheimer machine behind him making sure everything is fast, loud and flashy. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullWith West's confident competence, and Bruckheimer's reliable slickness, Con Air gets out of its own way and becomes a trash classic. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorDirector Simon West hits just the right note between self-conscious silliness and real dramatic intensity in this 1997 action thriller, which uses typecast actors to make the characters' one-liners and predictable behavior resonate. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonCon Air, a summer blast of a movie, teaches us many things: Producer Jerry Bruckheimer never met an explosion, a car crash or 20 tough guys talking trash he didn't like. Nicolas Cage is one of our most enjoyable screen heroes. As long as you're funny, you can literally get away with murder in a movie. |
| EmpireCaroline WestbrookYes, disbelief is required not so much to be suspended as removed altogether, but it barely matters as this is an adrenaline blast of the highest order. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyPreposterous, predictable, but excessively entertaining, this frenzied thriller draws both story and characters from such action classics as "The Fugitive," "Die Hard," "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Silence of the Lambs." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsKristian M. LinIt's an action flick that fulfills one's modest expectations. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaDon Simpson may be dead, but former producing partner Jerry Bruckheimer keeps the old Simpson/Bruckheimer spirit alive. |