Con Air (UK)

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Get Ready To Fly
Certificate: 18
Running Time: 111 mins
Retail Price: £17.99
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Synopsis:
Fasten your seat belts as Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (`Face/Off`; `The Rock`) takes you on the most dangerous flight of your life in the smash hit action thriller from the creator of `The Rock` and `Crimson Tide`...`Con Air`!

On an aircraft carrying some of the most notorious criminals of all time, the recently paroled Cameron Poe (Cage) is hitching a ride home to his wife and daughter. But he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a mid-air skyjacking masterminded by Cyrus `The Virus` Grissom (John Malkovich - `In The Line Of Fire`).

While Cameron fights to keep these savage convicts from massacring everyone on board as they career towards the famed Las Vegas Strip, a Government agent on the ground (John Cusack - `Grosse Pointe Blank`) battles to keep this overzealous superiors from blowing the plane into oblivion! Amazing stunts and visual effects add heart-pounding suspense to this must-see action hit of the year!

Special Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
View From Above
The Destruction Of Las Vegas
Original Theatrical Trailer

Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1 German

Subtitle Tracks:
French
Hebrew
Icelandic
Italian
Swedish
Finnish
English
Spanish
German
Portuguese
Greek
Dutch
Danish
Norwegian

Directed By:
Simon West

Written By:

Starring:
Steve Buscemi
Danny Trejo
M.C. Gainey
Landry Allbright
John Cusack
Monica Potter
Nicolas Cage

Casting By:
Victoria Thomas
Jeanne McCarthy
Matthew Barry

Soundtrack By:
Diane Warren
Trevor Rabin
Mark Mancina
Paul Linford

Director of Photography:
David Tattersall

Editor:
Glen Scantlebury
Steve Mirkovich
Chris Lebenzon

Costume Designer:
Bobbie Read

Producer:
Jerry Bruckheimer
Kenny Bates

Executive Producer:
Chad Oman
Jim Kouf
Jonathan Hensleigh
Peter Bogart
Lynn Bigelow

Distributor:
Buena Vista


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7 / 10
A bit of a no-brainer popcorn movie - not that there is anything wrong with that! While I am a huge fan of both Cage and Cusack, I felt that this movie was just a little too… well… cheesy (yes, I'm talking about the bunny rabbit). Again, there is nothing particularly wrong with cheesy, I am all for cheese now and again. I just felt this was a little too over the top and is therefore only good rather than excellent.

Having said that, Con Air is still a great fun, and for some reason I enjoyed it much more on it's second viewing (could be that I knew to switch my brain off before the film started this time!). What are utterly disappointing however are the extras, which are really quite pitiful. 2 poor (and short) featurettes and 2 trailers are not really what I'd called fully loaded on the extras front. Although it's better than the original disc that didn't even have a trailer!

Still, picture & audio quality are very good. And John Malkovich is pretty good in it. Good fun.
posted by Rich Davies on 26/11/2002 20:41
7 / 10
A great movie. 7/10.
posted by LFC_Lad on 2/12/2004 01:54