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Summary: Bare bonus DVD. Shallow Movie
Review: With TROY now playing in theaters, and it being a big budget/zero substance movie...It is not surprising because AIR FORCE ONE was exactly the same type movie. Harrison Ford is in a thankless role in both a poorly written/and now much more realistic type picture then anyone would care to admitt. There is nothing to like about this movie, it speaks of shotty production values and zero story. Something that Hollywood shamelessly does now and it just stinks.
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Summary: I liked it!!!!!
Review: I first saw this film on ABC, and I enjoyed it,my little sisters didnt like it very much, but I did,Great Peformance by Harrison Ford.Filled with stunts and action expacially on a plane.
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Summary: Poor realism.
Review: I used to remember this film as being pretty good, and the performances of Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman are enjoyable, but there are parts of the plot that are those 'oh come on' moments that no audience should buy in to. And the special effects are pretty cheesy, with some really bad airplane manuevers. The whole scene where Air Force One lands and takes-off again in the heat of the hijacking is just awful... totally unrealistic.
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Summary: Sooo Unrealisticccc!!!!
Review: What kind of plot is this? They land the plane and then take back off when they're not even on the runway. I'm sorry this is just a little too impossible for me. Six Russian terrorists just happen to get on Air Force One unnoticed, please. One of the president's, most trusted and highly scrutinized, secret service detail is a traitor. There's nothing wrong with a fictional account, but at least make it one we can half-heartedly believe. What were you thinking Harrison? This was a "B" movie plot at best!
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Summary: Suspension of Disbelief Never Felt So Good
Review: Okay, so maybe not. But if your willing to believe a plane can withstand automatic weapons and a President who single-handedly stems a terrorist threat aboard his infamous Air Force One, the movie "Air Force One" is an exciting and technically flawless example of action-film moviemaking. Not to mention it's smarter than it has any right to be. Even though Harrison Ford is the headliner, the film would have been at a total loss if it were not for german born director/movie-making-maestro Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Troy). His uncanny sense of shape, pace character and restraint is impeccable, bringing even that strong sense of character to the generic action genre with "Air Force One." However, credit is also due to screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe. Even though reused elements from "Die Hard" and "In the line of Fire" show up, Marlowe still keeps a sense of intelligene and faux-realism in his script. The films plot involves is altogether simple: Russian radicals (led by a fanatical, scenary-chewing Gary Oldman) hi-jack Air Force One in mid-air and demand the release of an incarserated former dictator of Kazachstan (Jürgen Prochnow in a brief Cameo), and they will kill hostages in equal intervals until they are sure he is released. But, President James Marshall (Ford in top form) has other ideas. He stays aboard in secret to recue the hostages, which include his wife and daughter. Of course, mandatory fights and gun battles insue, but director Petersen never loses focus or slackens the tension, keeping the action sequences tight, taut and exciting, a feat even more laudable because it all occurs aboard a 747 aircraft. All the while, Ford fist-fights, shoots and kicks his way through the terrorist group, leading to a confrontation between himself and Oldman. Their few scenes together exude anger and excellent interplay, finding the right balance in the film fantasy and realism, making it, despite all odds, magnetic. All in all, they don't make action fare like "Air Force One" this intelligent anymore. We are stuck with the overwrought philosophical musings of the "Matrix" and the sheer dumbness of "The Scorpion King" and the like. Thankfully, Wolfgang Petersen makes a return to movies after four years with the Trojan War Epic "Troy." I'm hoping he still has it.
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Summary: An Action-Packed, All-American Action Thriller!
Review: When President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) goes off of the regular script at an international dinner and announces that the United States will not bargain with terrorists in any fashion, he has no idea that his challenge will soon be put to the test. On his way home from Russia, after his remarkable pronouncement, Air Force One is hijacked by terrorists led by Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman). They are determined to win the freedom of General Ivan Radek (Jurgen Prochnow), a military leader who murdered thousands of people in his bid for power. The secret service agents on the plane sacrificed themselves to get the President into the escape pod in the belly of the plane, leaving the President's closest advisors, as well as his wife and daughter, at the mercy of the terrorists... Vice President Kathryn Bennett (Glenn Close) immediately tries to negotiate with the terrorists to get the hostages off the plane alive while the military follows the beacon to the president's escape pod. Everything changes when the escape pod is found - empty. President James Marshall never left the plane and he is determined to make the terrorists pay. However, the terrorists quickly notice that their numbers are dwindling and assume that there is a secret service agent loose on the plane. They begin killing hostages in the hopes that they will find one that matters enough to the unknown man for him to give himself up. With the clock ticking and increasing numbers of hostages being murdered, President Marshall soon finds that he is forced into negotiating with the terrorists and arranging for the release of General Radek from prison. But that doesn't mean that he is beaten as he uses every trick in the book to get the terrorists off his plane... Air Force One is a great movie. It is fast paced, full of action and you almost instantly identify with the characters, especially Harrison Ford, as we have seen him play the president so many times that it is instantly believable. It is true that many of the details of the movie are obviously fantasy, such as the mythical escape pod (that doesn't exist on the real Air Force One), the ease with which the terrorists boarded the plane, and the constant firing of weapons on the plane without ever puncturing anything important, but the director is so talented and the cast so believable that you don't really think of any of this until after the movie is over. This is a big-budget blockbuster action adventure film at its very best!
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Summary: All-American Badass
Review: After 30 years as a movie hero, America has fallen in love with Harrison Ford playing the role of the perfect hero from Han Solo to Indiana Jones to Jack Ryan and now as the President of the United States. You know that Ford is going to win and you know that there will be some truly ridiculous twists, but the bottom line is that you are watching this movie to see Ford act well and ultimately save the day. Gary Oldman is a great if not typical adversary for the infallible Ford, and Ford's triumph over the crazy Russian serves to give us a sense of national pride. This is really not that great of a movie, but Harrison Ford can elevate any action movie which he does here.
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Summary: Is it a bird, is it a plane? no it's THE PRESIDENT ?
Review: This film is so over the top it's hilarious, this is POTUS as super hero, you almost wonder why he needs the plane I'm assuming the only reason he didn't reveal his true identity of US PRESIDENT MAN the masked avenger is that he couldn't find a convenient phone booth to change into his star spangled leotard. I enjoyed the film, but I feel a little dash of realism would have made it much better, just a bit believable maybe.
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Summary: One of the Greats
Review: This is one of Harrison Ford's best. I have always enjoyed his movies. He is a real actor and there is not many left out there. This movie has a plot to it and was well made, there are some kind of fake looking part in it but over all, very good.
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Summary: One Star Is Too Much
Review: On this derivative, by-the-numbers thriller we are forced to believe that an US president (played by Harrison Ford) could actually take down a russian (what else?) group of terrorists, as if he was 007 or McGyver. The beginning of the movie is somewhat credible, but soon presents us with one-dimensional characters and motivations, a lame and predictable plot and wooden, tepid acting. There are some twists, but they are so ridiculous and unbelievable that I stopped caring about it halfway through, given that the resolution has no surprises at all since the "good" guys always win. Despite some competent action sequences, this is brain-dead, mind-numbing material, cartoonish at best and completly disposable. There`s no force to be found here.
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