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Con Air - Extended Cut [1997]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 8717418104252
Label : Touchstone Home Video
Manufacturer : Touchstone Home Video
Publisher : Touchstone Home Video
Release date : 2006-11-06
Title : Con Air - Extended Cut [1997]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 18 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1997-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 116
Studio : Touchstone Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1997
Package quantity : 1

Customer reviews

review by: almighty date: 2008-12-09 rating:

OVERRATED
CON AIR is OK, but that'S it. There'S plenty of better action films out there. Neither the acting nor the directing are really good here. This film lacks just about everything. A total bore.

review by: leacam2003 date: 2008-03-04 rating:

Great action film
This is one for the boy's...the action sequences, chase scenes and fight scenes between inmates all make for a typical lad's film.
Being a girl, I really enjoyed this film - Cage and Malkovich are a great pair and Cusack is very entertaining in his role.
The film is well cut and the after effects for the time - particularly in the final sequence are impressive!
The action is never-ending and the fight isn't over til the very end.
Overall, a highly recommended film.

review by: date: 2007-10-06 rating:

Top action movie
Generally I'm not a fan of Hollywood blockbuster action movies. These days they mostly rely on CGI effects, have no characterisation and really are only worth seeing once. Con Air is the exception to that rule. I must have watched this film 7 or 8 times in the first five years after it came out.

The main reason its so watchable is the cast: Nicholas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi are all, given the right material, excellent actors. Here they are put to good use. Cage is a US Ranger hitching a lift back in a airbourne jail/transport plane. He's just been released from prison, but don't worry he's a good guy. The rest of the plane is full of the baddest of Americas bad criminals. Some of them, like Buscemi's Garland Greene (an appalling serial killer) are complete fruitcakes and he arrives on the plane in a secure steel box. Buscemi is brilliant. He only has a few lines of dialog in the whole film and steals the acting honours from the rest of the cast. Naturally the plane full criminals escape and all hell breaks loose. Fortunately inbetween the carnage and violence there are also a few nice comedic touches as well, which is relief.

The ending is perhaps the weakest point of the film where it does degenerate into a typical blockbuster movie. Overall though, its great entertainment thats in a different class from most bloated blockbusters. This is a rollercoaster ride you won't want to get off....

review by: SRW date: 2007-09-19 rating:

GOOD ACTION FILM
Action all the way and good special effects cover an otherwise dodgy storyline.

It is what it is, guns blazing action film not to be taken too seriously.

review by: The Amazon Reviewer date: 2007-06-01 rating:

Redemption & Action make this a very good film
In this movie, the director tries to demonstrate that although someone may have a bad past that does not represent who he or she is. West shows this when Cage, an ex con, helps a friend who is sick and tries to stop other prisoners from escaping, when he does not have to.
This film was near perfect. Well near perfect except for the cheesy ending which was typically commercial Hollywood. Malkovich is a very chilling villain and invariably steals the show from Cage..

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