Con Air

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Summary: The greatest
Review: Con Air is one of the best action movies of all time, with an all star cast and everything. This movie should be in everybodys collection without a doubt

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Summary: totally underrated
Review: This movie is great fun-much better than the boring Face Off.
1- many great actors Buscemi/Malkovich
2- original story
3- incredibly funny lines

You'll love it if you like action movies

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Summary: "Put the bunny back in the box"
Review: Con Air is a great movie! It's a fast-paced action flick filled with bloodly deaths and bodies that has "Larkin" written all over them. Cyrus Grissom (Aka "Cyrus the Virus") takes over a plane that is carrying crooks and rapist, and a madman. Cyrus calls the flight "Con Air" when him and others take over the plane. But, one person likes to be home to celebrate his daughter's birthday. Poe (Cage) attemps to mess up Cyrus's plans.

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Summary: The Virus and Diamond Dog Take Over
Review: Great action film, another triumph for Nicolas Cage. Cage plays Cameron Poe, a former Army Ranger who goes to prison for involuntary manslaughter and on the way home happens to be on a flight with the worst set of criminals assembled in one place since the Manson family. Of course the poor law enforcement officers lose control of the flight and that's where the fun starts. A great thrill ride, well worth repeat viewings.

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Summary: "How Do I Live" is an Evil Song
Review: The movie "Con Air" is definitely worth your time. But that horrendous song at the end ruins everything. Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) has ended his parole and he's going to fly back to his wife and daughter. The plane is full of the country's most notorious criminals and of course they seize the plane. Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich) asked the stewardess what the in-flight movie was going to be and whined like a little girl when the madness broke out. "Funny fool, ain't you?" Snicker. Diamond Dog (Ving Rhames), Johnny 23 (Danny Trejo) and a psycho (Steve Buscemi) are also on the plane. The plane eventually crashes in Las Vegas and only one inmate gets lucky. The psycho looked sick according to a little girl. Cameron Poe's accent was borderline ridiculous, and John Cusack destroyed a nice car. Destruction and mayhem all rolled in one.

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Summary: Reminds Me of Die Hard
Review: Con Air was a good movie. Good action flick with bloody deaths and a stuffed bunny rabbit. But, throughout the move, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was watching a "Die Hard" look-alike. The concept of a single guy stranded by a bunch of wackos led by an insane genious, with a good cop and a bad cop, it seemed interesting. Nicholas Cage reminds me of Bruce Willis. John Malkovich reminds me of Alan Rickman, and the 2 cops remind me of the Sergeant and the Lieutenant. Even when things go WAKO and the setting blows up, it seems the same. ...

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Summary: It's Worse Than You Think.
Review: A buddy of mine dragged me to the theatre to see this film, and within minutes I knew "Con Air" was going to be a stinkbomb. Essentially, it's nonstop mindless action sequences, testosterone overload, crude cultural stereotypes, and zero suspense. Nicolas Cage hasn't been in a half-decent film in an amazingly long period of time. Since his 1995 Oscar for the edgy "Leaving Las Vegas," he has epitomized the word "sellout" unlike any other actor in the past 10 years. Please, for the sake of decency, skip this film.

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Summary: "his got the whole world in his hands!!!"
Review: this movie is one of the best action films ever...i never regret the day i got it

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Summary: A goofy comedy posing as a "thrill ride"!
Review: I love action films, but as I was watching Con Air, I kept asking myself, "where's all the action?" Apparently, director Simon West decided he'd hold off the typical gun fights, car chases, and big explosions until the last half-hour. Big mistake. This is a Jerry Bruckheimer production, and I don't expect to have to wait 90 minutes to get to the action, which even then, is extremely disappointing in how routine all of it turns out to be.

So, instead, it might be more applicable to view this as a comedy about a relatively simple situation that goes awry. After all, this whole mess begins when an army ranger named Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) defended his pregnant wife and killed a man. Even though he was just defending himself and his wife and pleads guilty, he still gets the maximum sentence because he's seen as a "deadly weapon" in the judge's eye. It's too bad Cage, normally a pretty good actor, plays his role like a mix between Elvis and Forrest Gump, and as if to make the latter more obvious, Poe's best friend is none other than Mykelti Williamson, AKA Bubba!

This Poe Fella and his buddy manage to get on board a plane full of the most dangerous criminals alive, who come up with an escape plan despite them having never even set foot on the plane before. Poe has to try and thwart them, and this goes on for pretty much the entire movie. So what we have here is a film with a lame protagonist, even lamer villains, and average action scenes that don't get the pulse pounding. Oh, yeah, and there's constant bickering between John Cusack and Colm Meaney over whether or not to shoot the plane down. The answer should be a no-brainer, but since that description fits the movie itself, you can guess what they decide to do with the plane.

I get a lot of amusement over the family reunion in the movie's final scenes, where Poe meets his wife and his daughter, who he's never seen before. This was definitely the film's funniest bit, and I'm not sure whether or not it was meant to be.

(Spoiler) Take a look at the scene where Malkovich's villain is killed. It's pretty obvious he falls in such a position so that his feet, and not his head, would be facing that crushing machine. This is the kind of haphazard editing that's displayed throughout the whole film, so it's of no surprise Simon West would go on to direct Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the worst film of 2001. Hey, I actually see that as a good thing, since it kept West from directing Black Hawk Down, which was, ironically enough, the best film of 2001.

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Summary: One of the best action films!
Review: This movie is high pithced and fast. Yes the plot is absurd and the movies plot is an excuse for outstanding stunts but so what. The action is rhythmic and the cast is great. Malkovich has great fun as Cyrus the Virus. He chews the scenery as a genius who is literally insane. Cage is great at playing the good boy who is willing to take action against Cyrus. And Cusack has great persuasion in screaming into phones which he does a lot. But no matter the action is terrific with pumped up soundtrack to help it stay together. The best action scene is where a rope at the back end of the plane gets caught on a mid-sixties corvette and it gets dragged along in the air until it crashes into the tower and falls destroying itself on impact with the ground.