Review of Con Air (1997) by Deb S — 22 Feb 2010
"Con Air" is entertaining flick with Nicholas Cage and John Malkovich leading the way with catchy one liners and light-hearted drama. The plot is about a plane designed to carry cons and than the cons taking it over. However they haven?t planned on one wrongly convicted, ex-ranger on board who's been released and is just on the plane to get a ride home to his wife and daughter, who he's never actually seen before.
Malkovich seems to relish playing Cyrus Grissom - the criminally insane sociopath who masterminds the capture of the plane while John Cusack is the federal agent, who from the ground is doing his best to bring down the plane full of convicts. Steve Buscemi is especially hilarious as a Hannibal Lecter-esque sociopath who after building us up with horror stories, do absolutely nothing.
The finale is as over-the-top as you would expect from a Jerry Bruckhemimer production, cramming the maximum possible mayhem into the smallest possible time as the plane crash-lands on the Las Vegas strip, followed by a high speed chase through the city. If you are after a mindless action film, then this is the one for you moving from action to comedy to drama with ease and leads you nicely on to the obvious end.
This review of Con Air (1997) was written by Deb S on 22 Feb 2010.
Con Air has generally received positive reviews.
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