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Con Air
1997
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Con Air
Positive Reviews
25
Negative reviews
17
Average Rating
2.8
/5
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2.0
Con Air may be the closest thing yet to pure action thriller pornography.Ultimately, theres nothing to it but thrust.
EW
3.8
This is a movie that knows it is absurd, and does little to deny it.
Rogerebert
2.0
Theres no moral to the story of CON AIR, and while the acting is great (Dave Chapelle plays a particularly gregarious felon), theres nothing to sink y ..
Common Sense Media
3.5
Despite a descent into generic action pyrotechnics, Scott Rosenbergs screenplay is juiced with dry, witty dialogue and recharged with some preposterou ..
The Hollywood Reporter
2.0
To be fair, if youre looking to kill a couple of hours, there are worse fates awaiting you out there.Just dont ride Con Air expecting to go first clas ..
5.0
Director Simon West makes an impressive feature debut in this relentless action comedy that is, more than anything else, about how funny it is to see ..
San Francisco Chronicle
2.5
Viewers might hate themselves in the morning, but to hate every moment of Con Air would take more work than its worth.The picture has its crude charm.
San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is a former Army Ranger who has just finished serving eight years in prison for killing a man in a fight outside a bar.
Spirituality And Practice
2.5
What the movie lacks are tension and excitement to go along with all the bangs.
ReelViews
3.0
Kudos to Industrial Light & Magic for giving us real movie magic.
3.1
For the most part, Stolen comes off as an almost astonishingly generic thriller thats rife with familiar, hackneyed elements with the movies less than ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Has a strange air of nonchalant wackiness about it that makes it hard not to like.
Lariat
1.3
The result is cinema at its most mind numbingly trite, from its car heisting prologue to its Evel Knievel climax.
Cs Monitor
3.1
There are quite a few funny wisecracks peppering the dialogue, and Cages accent a sort of cornpone imitation of Elvis Presley and his dry witted deliv ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.5
After about two hours, the explosions, shootings, explosions, wisecracks, explosions, and intrusive sentimental interludes get very boring.
Internet Reviews
4.4
Youll never mistake it for art, but as far as summer movies go, this is a pretty effective thrill machine.
Internet Reviews
1.5
Theres a word for people like you, Nicolas. That word is recidivist...repeat offender.
Internet Reviews
2.5
The worst part of the conclusion is that when you breathe a slight of relief that this repetitive and overly long film is finally over, it isnt.
Internet Reviews
1.5
Con Air (review) Strong Enough for a Man But Made for a Moron Long story short: a plane with a bunch of nasty convicts on it crashes into Las Vegas.Lo ..
3.8
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
2.0
For every action flick you need a villain, and this movie has a plane load of them, but by far and way, the guy who steals the show is head villain Jo ..
3.0
This is a big, silly film. Is it full of explosions and one liners Of course. Is it entertaining Of course.
Flim Threet
4.0
The tearful wife bits are mercifully short, and you have no time to mourn the loss of meaning and substance when watching a plane crash land in the he ..
Bbc
3.8
As action icons Stallone and Schwarzenegger creep into middle age, the time is right for the emergence of some new, fresh blood to headline action/adv ..
Mr Brown Movies
4.0
Surprisingly heady stuff for what is supposed to be a fluff filled genre.
Bullz-Eye
1.5
Numbing but not boring, its finally more dispiriting than exhilarating, like a wild night of debauchery that leaves only a fearsome hangover for a sou ..
Calendar Live
2.5
Anybody with decent pectorals could have played this role, but with Cage theres a little depth.
Spliced Wire
3.1
It may not even be a good movie, except that its fun.Even so, there is something about Jerry Bruckheimer movies that leaves me feeling a little slimy.
Movie Habit
3.5
Plenty of films came afterwards, but this was the quintessential modern action flick.
7M Pictures
2.0
Unfortunately, this Touchstone effort falls well below the stature of its aspirations, too often substituting bombast for believability before finally ..
Boxoffice Magazine
3.1
Mega budget action extravaganzas dont get much sillier than this.
Movies Tv Guide
3.5
Gratuitous violence, glorious explosions, and mind boggling action sequences abound in this maniacal thrill ride.
4.4
The story is perfect for an action movie: its original enough, raw, inventive and it doesnt take itself too seriously.
Montreal Film Journal
3.5
It was certainly great writing, but I instantly surmised that the script needed more heart.
News Week
3.5
Its not exactly a spoof of action flicks, but everyone involved clearly has tongue wedged firmly within cheek.
Dvd Talk
1.5
This frankly silly action movie scores major points for bordering on self parody.
Film4
3.5
Rude, crude, mindless action and nonstop gratuitous violence just dont get any better.
Movie Metropolis
2.0
I dont know how it happened, or what Simon West was thinking, but the first half of Con Air is brilliant and the second half is a non stop climax, and ..
Film Blather
3.0
The Sex Talk: The conversation that is not happening about campus sexual assault.About 3 million students on campus this fall will be sexually assault ..
Rochester Goes Out
1.0
Jerry Bruckheimer hands Simon West the reins and West drives this carriage, which is chock full of great actors, straight over the cliff.
Need Coffee
1.0
Its slapped together childishly and has no real foundation to render it even vaguely capable of withstanding a lapping wave of intellect or logic.
Net Flix
5.0
Director Simon West pulls off the impossible task of having the film make constant fun of itself and its viewers while keeping the storyline grounded ..
Arizona Daily Star
2.0
He is never patientand this is the same actor who once wooed Diane Court by standing beneath her bedroom window for the entirety of Peter Gabriels fiv ..
Not Coming
1.5
Despite the glut of strong performers, the thing never gets past its cumbersome, detonate everything high concept.
4.5
Now if this were just a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, youd get plenty of explosions, action and excitement.But working with this kind of talent (when was t ..
Film Scouts
3.0
Mr. Cage plays Cameron Poe, an ex Army Ranger who is equal parts Boy Scout and Terminator.
Enquirer
1.5
Cast actors with a bit of box office clout; hire a director smart enough to shoot each explosion so it can be shown multiple times from different angl ..
IMDB
2.5
Expensive, slickly made trash to be sure, but still trash.At the center of the story is former Army Ranger Cameron Poe (Academy Award winner Nicolas C ..
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