RCon Air

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IMDB (320,488 votes)

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500M
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Play Time: 116 mins
Action, Thriller, Crime
Con Air

Overview:
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.

Status: Released (1997-06-05)
Awards:Nominated for 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 11 nominations total
BoxOffice:$101,117,573
Screen:Scott Rosenberg
Productions: Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Con Air
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Per Gunnar Jonsson

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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 ....

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John Chard

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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) ....

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Andre Gonzales

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

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CinemaSerf

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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 s ....

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