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It's full of entertaining actions and lots of explosions. Don't expect logic from the plot. Over-the top but good acting.
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Following hot on the heels of The Rock, this is another slice of top dolar action. The situations are daft but every last piece of excitement is drawn out. You will not be bored - this is fast entertaining fun.
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This is a well-made, very watchable example of a classic Hollywood genre -- the action/adventure film. Nicholas Cage plays Cameron Poe, ex-army Ranger who gets in a bar fight and kills a redneck who was bugging his wife. Poe ends up with a plea-bargained eight-year sentence, does his time without annoying anyone, and is about to be released when he's put on a Federal Bureau of Prisons airplane (known as "Jailbird-1")as a convenient ride back to his hometown. The plane is otherwise filled with the worst of the worst convicts from around the country, who are being shipped to a new super-max prison -- and they have no intention of going. John Malkovich does a terrific job as Cyrus Grissom, ringleader of the escape plot, and John Cusack is also very good as U.S. Marshal Larkin, whose plane it is, and who has to try to prevent the escape, and who establishes a tenuous alliance with Poe -- because Poe is the heroic type and he just can't let things happen this way. Steve Buscemi plays a creepy, Hannibal Lector-ish serial killer whom even the other convicts are nervous about, but the screenwriter and the director missed the chance to do a lot more with him as a "wild card." (Would he really have sided with the escaped cons in the Big Showdown?) The plot accelerates as it predictably progresses, with the plane finally crash-landing on the Las Vegas Strip (neat SFX, though not really believable). And while you know the Good Guys are going to win, it's interesting to see how they manage it. Actually, the only bad part of the film is Cage's dreadful attempt at an Alabama accent.
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I ALREADY OWNED THIS MOVIE ON DVD SINCE THE PICTURE QUALITY WAS NOT VERY SATISFACTORY SO i BOUGHT THIS BLUE RAY DVD THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE PICTURE QUALITY EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT AS GOOD AS THE RECENT MOVIES
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The 90s were full of Die Hard rip-offs and few of those managed to stand on their own two feet. Con Air (along with Ronin [Blu-ray], Army of One (aka Joshua Tree) and Die Hard With a Vengeance [Blu-ray]) is everything an action movie and a summer movie should be. It's bursting at the seams with fire, explosions, blue skies and sunshine and never fails to excite.
Jerry Bruckheimer's production style rarely makes a good movie but Con Air is one of those rare exceptions in which all the OTT mayhem and full-on action make a film so exhilarating it scorches when you watch it.
Nic Cage (in a typically bad performance) is Cameron Poe, a US Ranger who is sent to prison for accidentally killing a thug who attacks his pregnant wife. After 8 years of porridge he is freed and hitches a ride home on a prison plane called The Jailbird. But this is no ordinary flight.
On Board are a small army of America's toughest crooks including Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom (John Malkovich) a man on death row for murder, robbery, kidnapping and extortion. Nathan 'Diamond Dog' Jones (Ving Rhames), a black militant inside for murder. Billy Bedlam (Nick Chinlund), inside for killing his cheating wife's family and dog. Pinball Parker (Dave Chapelle), a pimp and drug-dealer. Swamp Thing (MC Gainey) a pilot who knows a few things about a good hijack. And finally Garland Green AKA The Marietta Mangler (Steve Buscemi) a serial killer in for killing a zillion people and crossing 2 state borders wearing a girl's head as a hat.
As you can tell, with such a eclectic bunch of psychos on board it's only a matter of seconds before all hell breaks loose. As soon as the plane is in the air the cons have taken over, restrained or killed the guards and have changed the destination from prison to South America.
Poe, being the good-hearted sort of chap that he is, doesn't rat out as his best pal needs his insulin shot and no one else will help. It's up to Poe to sneakily round up the baddies until US Marshall Larkin (John Cusack) and the cavalry can get there. Easier said than done, as double-crosses, suspicious cons and incompetent authority foul everything up. The result is action overload as the film blazes through to it's anarchic, devastating climax upon another anarchic, devastating climax. At the end you'll be left breathless and your senses stinging with over-stimulation.
Steve Buscemi steals the whole show. His deadpan, bug-eyed and dare I say 'innocent' portrayal of a deranged killer is the centerpiece of the whole film. The scene where he sings with a little girl (and continues later on) will either freak you out or steal your heart. And the ending is the best you could hope for.
Mark Mancina and Trevor Rabin provide a loud, blaring score of thrash-metal and acoustic guitars with the usual Media Ventures flare. It's brilliant stuff and I suggest you hunt down the (sadly incomplete) Con Air: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. And this film really did deserve the Best Original Song award over that pansy Titanic one.
Superior to both The Rock [Blu-ray] and Face/Off [Blu-ray], Con Air is Nic Cage at his (worst) best as an action hero and Bruckheimer at his best as an action producer. See it, for the love of God, see it.
The Blu Ray looks brilliant in 1080P and sounds just amazing.
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