Con Air Reviews

Con Air is great

It's just an excellent all action movie with a bit of comedy and a bit of romance.

Hope You Have A Pleasant Flight!

It’s time to all come aboard as big budget Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer delivers another non-stop action overload. A person, who is renowned for spending most of the budget on explosions rather than a decent screenplay, this slice of popcorn is no different. At least you do get plenty of bangs for your buck. So if your looking for something deep and meaningful such as politics or environmental issues, then your onboard the wrong flight.

Con Air is enjoyable “please check your brains at the door” action fodder. Nic Cage scored something of a‘ hatrick’ here by starring in yet another consecutive successful action movie, the other two being The Rock (also from Bruckheimer) and Face-Off.

Complete suspension of logic and disbelief is the order of the day here, as this is yet another pyrotechnically proficient, testosterone fuelled action fest. This is not to say that it does not deliver on other levels. All the actors are clearly relishing their roles and sinking their teeth into throwaway dialogue peppered with some great one-liners. Its this great combination of well orchestrated action and everyone enjoying their roles that keeps the film flying along at the speed of light.

If I’m ever stuck on what movie defines action, then I’ll automatically think Con Air. It’s the perfect antidote to that hard day at the office. Travelling by air has never been this much fun!

Silly - but fun

This has everything you could wish for from an action film.

It has Nick Cage being broody but kind while beating up the bad guys.

It has John Malkovich as an evil genius.

It has lots of big set piece scenes in which things explode.

It has very sharp dialogue and a decent soundtrack.

Overall, it's mindless but it's real fun and I recommend it thoroughly.

Great Action Movie

This was an excellent action movie with a bit of a story (although highly improbable) and quite a lot of humour.... and the good guys win.

I really enjoyed it.. A bit like terminator without the sci fi angle.

Exhilarates to suspension of disbelief

At first I thought 'Con Air' would be just another mindless action picture filled with explosions, shootings, brawls and just about everything including the kitchen sink but it has much more under the surface in its technique, style and execution. Although quite unbelievable at times it does use the theory of suspension of disbelief quite well and is a satisfying way to spend two hours in a movie theatre.

'Con Air' is extremely slick and well paced and has appropriate humour from time to time. The criminals make the movie's colourful observations known to the audience and the three outstanding portraits aside from Malkovich come from Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi and Nicolas Cage whose character is a nice contrast and while he is a convicted criminal himself, he is the saving grace in making the predatory criminals see that they aren't as invincible as they think they are.

Cage is truly a gifted and smart performer whose risks in recent years in choosing quirky and off beat roles have paid off handsomely and the icing on the cake came with his Oscar win for Best Actor in 1995's 'Leaving Las Vegas'. 'Con Air' is the kind of action film with good character development and is not for the faint of heart but is for those who like their violent action mixed with a sense of style and exhilarating stunts.

Atrocious

I am staggered by the amount of good reviews of this film. It is a staggeringly bad film.

Ludicrous and corny storyline, some utterly ridiculous scenes and coincidences. Ludicrously unnatural dialogue too.

Cage, Buscemi and Malkovitch must look back at this and cringe.

If you like film (I mean proper film) then do not waste 2 hours of your life watching this utter drivel.

Excellent film. Seen it about 5 times and still I find it very enjoyable. Throughly recommende viewing

A classic

What more can I say - a must see classic!

don't judge

it is very easy to cast aside as a no-brainer...this film delivers everything EVERYTHING an action film should, for its genre it is only beaten by Die Hard

always liked this film since i first saw it, Its nicholas cage at his action film best