Con Air

Name: Con Air 1997 Movie
Rating: 4.8

They were deadly on the ground; Now they have wings.

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.

Release Date : 05 Jun, 1997

Duration : 1h 56m

Generes : Action Thriller Crime

Vote Average : 6.727 Vote Count : 3,763 Popularity : 28.319

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Production Country

United States of America

Budget

$ 75,000,000

Revenue

$ 224,012,234

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Reviews

A review by Per Gunnar Jonsson

Written by Per Gunnar Jonsson on 24 Aug, 2014

This is one of those movies which are simply good solid entertainment. The fact that I do like Nicolas Cage, even though he is at times really lousy at choosing which movies he participate in, is of course an additional plus. Naturally I do like the performance of Nicolas Cage in this movie but J...

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 18 May, 2020

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. I have the only gun on board. Welcome to Con Air. Hummingbird Humdinger. Con Air is directed by Simon West and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich. Plot sees Cameron Poe (Cage), a parolee on h...

A review by Andre Gonzales

Written by Andre Gonzales on 09 May, 2023

Great movie. One of my favorites growing up. Action packed with a great storyline. Great cast too....

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 27 Aug, 2023

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 pri...