Con Air

Pros: Action packed roller coaster ride with a crash landing, Pretentious thriller
Cons: Stereotypical characters, Sketchy plot, Too long

Probably the most appealing feature of the 1997 film Con Air is it's purposeful pretentiousness. It's clear from the very beginning that this film is not to be taken seriously. As a consequence many of it's most glaring flaws, including the...

Pros: All of the actors, the story, and the action
Cons: Cons? This movie is full of them ;)

The year was 1997, and Nicolas Cage had just come off the success of his first action movie The Rock . It appeared that he could make the move from comedy movies over to action movies, and Simon West casted him to do just that in Con Air. With ...

Pros: A fun comic book movie that doesn't pretend to be anything else.
Cons: Fairly paint-by-numbers plot.

If one thinks of a movie that was not based directly on a comic book, yet knew that it was comic book in nature, the first one to come to mind is Con Air. This 1997 action gem is pulpy all the way through and does not apologize for it.

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Pros: John Cusack and Nicolas Cage
Cons: Everything and everyone else.

My favorite part of ConAir was the flying car. Seems that the DEA's Agent in Charge had little else on his mind except getting home to drive his car. That's how he struck me after a dozen different attempts to shoot down the plane in ConAir.

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Pros: Does as promised
Cons: Fellini it is not

If you're one of those guys who take a movie like Con Air so seriously, then you need to pull the stick out of your butt and just stare blankly at the screen for the next two hours. Con Air is precisely the kind of cornball fare that rolls into movie ...

Pros: Great cast; very funny moments; innocent action
Cons: Goes over the top sometimes; a few cliche and excessively violent moments.

I think there's only one way to make an action film successful, and that is to not present the story as something to take seriously and to incorporate a sense of satire. In its most basic form, "Con Air" is just as mindless and over-the-top as every ...

Pros: great effects, big-name cast, lots of explosions
Cons: surprisingly, Nicolas Cage in some parts

This is the story of Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage), a caring family man with a beautiful wife and daughter…who has just been paroled after ten year in prison for murder. Cameron has never seen his daughter since his wife was pregnant at the time he was ...

Pros: Great action and suspense flick...
Cons: May be too intense for certain audiences...

This tongue-in-cheek action flick takes a planeload of guys you love to hate, sticks one tarnished angel in for good measure, then places them in a desperate situation where they have to deal with an unscrupulous social institution to escape with their...

Pros: So ridiculous it entertains
Cons: Conned by "Con Air"

Ah, where to begin..."Con Air" starring Nicholas Cage and John Malkovitch is a huge, lumbering crime/suspense movie filled with larger-than-life lowlifes, cascades of crashing metal objects, and some nasty character clashes as the protagonist,...

Pros: adventure flick
Cons: totally predictable

Con Air is a movie of a different sort. In this movie Nicholas Cage was sent to jail for killing a man in self defense. The movie then skips ahead to his release day and goes from there. Cage is booked onto "con-air" a airline flight that is...

Pros: Action, Characters, Story line
Cons: Predictable at times

Alabaman Cameron Poe, played by Nicolas Cage, gets home from being discharged from the US Army Rangers to have a dance with his pregnant wife. His wife works in a bar in Mobile, AL, and gets hit on by a "regular" and insults him and the...

Pros: action, explosions, one-liners, and a nice trip to vegas
Cons: nothing

I love this movie. I have a few movies that I enjoy just for the pure fun and rush involved, part of the reason why I love James Bond flicks, this
being one of those movies. If you are looking for perfect one-liners, tons of action, and lots and...

Pros: Cast, stunts, scenery, soundtrack
Cons: The ending-- I would have liked to know more about Cameron

Cameron Poe (Nicholas Cage) just got out of the Army (Rangers, to be precise) when he ran into a touch of bad luck. While defending his wife (Monica Potter) in a drunken bar brawl, Cameron accidentally kills one of the three attackers with his bare...

Pros: The Cast
Cons: No Sequel

I was thrilled with this movie. All the action, suspense, and drama was excellent. Nicolas Cage who played Cameron Poe was awesome. John Cusack was great(forget who he played). Last, but not least John Malcovich who played Cyrus "The Virus"...

Pros: good action, decent acting for an action flick
Cons: somewhat predictable

Con Air is an action movie that doesn't treat it's audience as mindless captors for two hours. Instead, it rises above the standard action movie "fare" with an excellent mix of comic relief, action, and some delicious acting jobs.

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