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Con Air (1997)

R06/05/1997Action, Thriller, Crime1h 56m
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They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.

Overview

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Top Billed Cast

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    Nicolas Cage

    Cameron Poe

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    John Cusack

    Agent Vince Larkin

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    John Malkovich

    Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

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    Ving Rhames

    Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones

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    Mykelti Williamson

    "Baby-O" O'Dell

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    Dave Chappelle

    "Pinball" Parker

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    Colm Meaney

    Agent Duncan Malloy

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    Monica Potter

    Tricia Poe

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    Landry Allbright

    Casey Poe

This takes forever to get going, but once the plot gets the establishing twenty minutes out of the way, it's actually quite a decent adventure story. Ranger Nicolas Cage ("Poe") gets embroiled in a fatal brawl that lands him in jail. Out on his parole, he gets caught up in a highly sophisticated prison break planned by "Cyrus" (John Malkovich) - intent on hijacking their prison flight and executing a complicated onwards escape plan before the pursuing Colm Meaney ("Agent. Malloy") and an heavily armed squad of soldiers track them down. Luckily for Cage, and the authorities, John Cusack ("Agent...