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  Filmtracks: Con Air (Mark Mancina/Trevor Rabin)
Con Air: (Mark Mancina/Trevor Rabin) Directed by first-timer Simon West, a veteran of British music videos, Con Air served as evidence in the mid-1990's that the concept of the "American blockbuster" was indeed truly dumbed down for the masses.
The problem with Con Air is that the film squandered its only assets; a typecast group of actors is led by a positively bored Nicolas Cage into a series of explosions and other special effects that were as poorly shot as they were improbable.
For even some steroid-injecting collectors of this genre, Con Air is trash (though, come to think of it, the score would be oddly appropriate to enjoy in the bathroom while you're injecting your buddy in the butt with steroids and suffering subsequent 'roid rage episodes), and there's a distinct reason for it.
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 Con Air (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cyrus was calm, cool, and collected in the face of danger as he led his group of convicts.I have gained a new respect for Malkovich because I was able to see the true range and versatility he brought to the role.
Another aspect of "Con Air" I enjoyed was the writing because the film was able to tell a story with substance without letting the action take over.
The special effects in "Con Air" is great that it made me feel as if were part of that flight right along with the convicts.
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 Con Air (1997): Reviews
While tyro director Simon West fills Con Air with all the slam-bang action and well-honed wisecracks that were the more positive qualities of its predecessors, the film brims even more with all their worst qualities.
Con Air might not exactly be the most thought-provoking motion picture out there, but it's definitely entertaining.
Con Air is a fun ride, but in the end - it's not mean enough, even for an action flick.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/conair   (839 words)

  
 John Malkovich: Con Air - Movie
Yet "Con Air" is bursting at the seams with acting talent and a laugh-out-loud script so chock full of classic action film one-liners it makes this movie one of the most rapturous popcorn-munching guilty pleasures since "Point Break".
As soon as the plane is in the air the cons have taken over, restrained or killed the guards and have changed the destination from prison to South America.
Con Air is one of those films that will slowly work it's way into more and more DVD collections as time goes on.
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 SPLICEDwire | "Con Air" review
This week we have "Con Air," about a serial killer hijacking a prison transport plane and crashing it into Las Vegas while officials on the ground argue about shooting down the plane.
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, whose modus operandi is sensory-overload action movies ("Crimson Tide," "The Rock"), "Con Air" stars Nicolas Cage as Cameron Poe, an ex-Army Ranger hero who is being paroled eight years after killing a man in a brawl while defending his wife's honor.
"Con Air" is passably entertaining for the first 90 minutes, but after the prisoners shoot their way off the airfield and back into the sky (Poe stays on board to hopefully rescue a guard and a diabetic prisoner -- what a guy), the movie becomes, in quick succession, silly then generic.
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 Con Air Buena Vista Home Entertainment YaPrice Comparison | Movies Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Con Air was re-released with Crimson Tide and Enemy Of The State.
Con Air, directed by Simon West, is a flick about a man who is sent to prison after accidentally killing a man during a bar brawl.
Con Air is your typical mid 90's Bruckheimer actionfest.
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 Con Air - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Con Air (1997) is an American action/thriller movie by Touchstone Pictures, starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich.
It is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Simon West.
And immediately Rock responds with "Con air.Con Shi*!, God, did that movie suck!" remarking on the poor response to the film.
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 Salon | "Con Air"
"Con Air" asks us to swallow that a parolee would be put on a plane with the country's most dangerous criminals; that aforesaid scum would be put aboard without being subjected to a cavity search or metal detectors; that the plane transporting these miscreants would be equipped with an arsenal...
In "Con Air," the unlikely presence of John Cusack, John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi aren't enough to subvert the movie's dumbness, but they each project enough skepticism about what they've gotten themselves involved in to give the movie its only flashes of wit apart from Cage.
Cusack, whose leftist politics are the exact opposite of the lynch-mob mentality movies like "Con Air" rile up, finesses the contradiction by playing a liberal U.S. marshal who gets to outsmart his by-the-book colleagues.
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 DVD Verdict Review - Con Air
Con Air is another in a long line of thrill-ride action movies produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Con Air was one of Disney's early DVD releases.
Con Air is consistently the movie I pull out of my collection when I feel like watching a kick-ass action flick.
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In many ways, `Con Air' looks like the results of a Hollywood brainstorming meeting gone haywire, where a thousand ideas are slapped down onto a notepad.
`Con Air' is a firm believer in the concept that more must be better – ten explosions must be better than one; three psychotic villains must be better than two; and so on.
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 Con Air (1997)
The film wants to have its cake and blow it up, too: it needs a protagonist who is a convict but not a criminal, someone with whom the audience will sympathize and respect.
Of the Bruckheimer films from the period around this one’s 1997 release - Enemy of the State, Armageddon, The Rock, Crimson Tide - I found Con Air to stand as the weakest of the bunch.
Con Air appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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 INKPOT MOVIE REVIEWS: CON AIR
Yeah, Con Air is definitely cool...far cooler, in my humble (but highly educated) opinion, than THE FIFTH ELEMENT (which, despite all of you who have berated me for my review of it, is diminishing in my esteem daily).
His military training has taught him never to leave a fallen comrade, and in this case the comrades are a diabetic con dying from a lack of insulin and a female guard (and it seems that these cons just don't know how to treat a lady).
And although CON AIR has its share of explosions and car crashes, they are not what you will talk about the next day; you'll remember the tension created from the interactions of the characters, the brutality, and the sheer intensity of this film.
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 Amazon.com: Con Air: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Music: Mark Mancina,Trevor Rabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Con Air" was a terrific action-packed film,filled with top notch actors, edge of your seat moments, and even a little romance.
For those unaware, 'Con Air' was Rabin's first "big score" and therefore we get a composition that is premature from a composer that perhaps hasn't evolved past that description.
Con Air is a decent score, but a lot of the music is obnoxious noise that comes from electric guitars and synths.
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 Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Con Air
If Cameron Poe, Nick Cage's character in Con Air, had had a better lawyer at his trial, then it would have saved us all a lot of grief.
Con Air is one of the latest in the long string of action "event" movies that have visited us each summer since 1988's Die Hard.
Con Air isn't one of the better efforts.
www.stomptokyo.com /movies/con-air.html   (1021 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Con Air at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The bottom line is that Con Air is a great action movie that is full of great acting and Explosions.
The main plot of the story unfolds, as a scheme unfolds on the plane while it is in the air.
Several of the prisoners have put together a plan to take over the plane, and then seek their freedom once they are in control of it.
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 Con Air
CON AIR (R) Reviewed June 8, 1997 - Check out the Con Air web site.
Con Air is entertaining to a point, but excessive to a fault...it just keeps going, and going, and going, and going...I really wish that guy would've just put the bunny back in the box (you'll have to see the movie to know what I mean)...
Con Air was action packed and I think it gave a pretty accurate account of what extreme felons can go to.
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 Con Air: America's High-Flying Paddy Wagon
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This fee schedule covers ground and air transportation by U.S. marshals from the point of origin to the closest U.S. Marshal's office at the destination city and it also covers secure housing in federally contracted detention facilities and/or BOP correctional institutions throughout the JPATS transfer process.
First to emerge was the Shelby County man, in handcuffs attached to a belly chain and shackles, escorted by a federal marshal.
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 Con Air: Unrated Extended Edition (1997)
Note that this “Unrated Extended Edition” of Con Air adds about seven minutes to the running time of the original theatrical version.
On the other hand, the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack of Con Air matched up closely with the audio of the prior disc.
The DVD drops the two Con Air trailers from the original release.
www.dvdmg.com /conairextended.shtml   (1562 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Con Air [1997]: DVD: Nicolas Cage,John Cusack,John Malkovich,Ving Rhames,Nick Chinlund,Steve Buscemi,Colm ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
So it was with some reservations I sat down to watch Con Air but I can happily report that I was well entertained for the duration of the film.
Of course the film also has some fine action scenes- one of the best being the point where the cons are forced to crash the plane in Las Vegas with disastrous consequences.
Well ive watched con air and thought it was a good, compelling action thriller that deserves a bit more credit than the reviews ive read so far.
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 Con Air Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1988, a new action sub-genre was born with the release of "Die Hard", which spawned a flurry of activity in Hollywood and many pitch meetings starting with the phrase, "Well, it's like Die Hard on a...".
"Con Air" is full of unbelievable stunts and pyrotechnics that are characteristic of Bruckheimer's Hong Kong action film influences.
The whole John Woo bag of tricks is found here: the dramatic dolly-ins, the slo-mo action sequences, guys running around with two guns, the internal conflict that Poe faces between loyalty and duty, and redemption through cartoon violence.
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 Amazon.com: Con Air: DVD: Nicolas Cage,John Cusack,John Malkovich,Ving Rhames,Nick Chinlund,Steve Buscemi,Colm ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane, and head it towards Las Vegas.
Con Air is proof that the slick, absurdly overblown action formula of Hollywood mega-producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Crimson Tide) lives on, even after Simpson's druggy death.
"Con Air" is a movie that doesn't take itself seriously, and you shouldn't, either.
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 Con Air - Moviefone
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 Con Air - DVD - Title C Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
With a cast consisting of Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich you expect the film to deliver, and boy was I write.
It’s not like you typical action films, with the same type of storylines and same setting, what was different about Con Air was the simple fact that the majority of this action film was confined in a Federal prisoner’s plane.
Basic Storyline: Cameron Poe, and ex military officer is sent to prison for the manslaughter of a man whom he was protecting his wife and unborn baby from.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-c/con-air   (231 words)

  
 Gone in 60 Seconds/ Con Air   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Gone in 60 Seconds/ Con Air to receive a rating.
CON AIR is the story of Cameron Poe, a soon-to-be-paroled family man who winds up on an airplane hijacked by a gang of ruthless convicts.
Film review: Con Air and Gone in 60 Seconds are both great movies.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/gone_in_60_seconds_con_air   (385 words)

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