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Con Air (Widescreen Edition)
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304681503
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 630468150X
Label: Buena Vista Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 06, 1997
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Editorial Review:
Con Air is proof that the slick, absurdly overblown action formula of Hollywood mega-producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Crimson Tide) lives on, even after Simpson's druggy death. (Read Charles Fleming's exposé, High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess, for more about that.) Nicolas Cage, sporting a disconcerting mane of hair, is a wrongly convicted prisoner on a transport plane with a bunch of infamously psychopathic criminals, including head creep Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich), black militant Diamond Dog (Ving Rhames), and serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi, making the most of his pallid, rodent-like qualities). Naturally, the convicts take over the plane; meanwhile, on the ground, a U.S. marshal (John Cusack) and a DEA agent (Colm Meaney) try to figure out what to do. As is the postmodern way, the movie displays a self-consciously ironic awareness that its story and characters are really just excuses for a high-tech cinematic thrill ride. Best idea: the filmmakers persuaded the owners of the legendary Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to let them help out with the structure's demolition by crashing their plane into it. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Greatest Movie Ever
This movie ranks number one on my top 9 movies list. What could be better than this movie? Nothing. It had an all star cast, and had the most original plot of any movie. No other movie has had a group of convicts hijacking an airplane before (Ignore the movie US Marshalls and a few other exceptions). But honestly, this was the greatest acting performance by Nicolas Cage ever. It is a shame he didn't win an academy award for best actor. And how about that John Malkovich. He played a psycho criminal ... Read More
Rating:  - full of entertaining actions + Lots of explosions.
It's full of entertaining actions and lots of explosions. Don't expect logic from the plot. Over-the top but good acting.
Rating:  - Great action & some good cheeky fun
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.
Rating: - Very predictable -- but still fun
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Conair
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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