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Con Air

Name: Con Air
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Released: 1997-06-05
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 6.777

★ 6,8 /10 (4,692 Votes)

1997 EN 116 min

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.

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Release date

05/06/1997

Votes

4,692

Popularity

10.1

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Genres

Action Thriller Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

116 min

Budget

$75,000,000

Revenue

$224,012,234

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Nicolas Cage

Cameron Poe

John Cusack

Agent Vince Larkin

John Malkovich

Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Ving Rhames

Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones

Mykelti Williamson

"Baby-O" O'Dell

Dave Chappelle

"Pinball" Parker

Colm Meaney

Agent Duncan Malloy

Monica Potter

Tricia Poe

Landry Allbright

Casey Poe

Rachel Ticotin

Guard Sally Bishop

Steve Buscemi

Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"

Nick Chinlund

William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford

M.C. Gainey

"Swamp Thing"

Danny Trejo

"Johnny-23"

Renoly Santiago

"Sally-Can't Dance"

Steve Eastin

Guard Falzon

Brendan Kelly

Conrad

Jesse Borrego

Francisco Cindino

Carl Ciarfalio

Con #1

Mongo Brownlee

Ajax

José Zúñiga

Sims

Ned Bellamy

Chopper Pilot

John Marshall Jones

Gator

John Roselius

Devers

Fredric Lehne

Pilot

No photo

Martin McSorley

Co-Pilot

Dan Bell

Fuel Jockey

Bob Stephenson

Ted, the Pilot

Scott Ditty

Bus Guard

Tommy Bush

Sheriff

No photo

Lauren Pratt

Debbie (6 Yrs Old)

No photo

Steve Hulin

Ronnie

No photo

Don C. McGovern

Smoke

Angela Featherstone

Ginny

Doug Hutchison

Donald

Jeris Poindexter

Watts

David Ramsey

Londell

Conrad Goode

Viking

Emilio Rivera

Carlos

Mario Roberts

Mongoose (Stunt)

Ty Granderson Jones

Blade

Earl Billings

Guard

Greg Collins

Guard

Billy Devlin

Guard

Mark Ginther

Guard

Joseph Patrick Kelly

Guard

No photo

Jeff Olson

Uncle Bob

No photo

Dawn Bluford

Female Baggage Handler

No photo

Charlie Paddock

Transportation Officer #1

No photo

Randee Barnes

Stickman

Don S. Davis

Man In Car

No photo

Barbara Sharma

Woman In Car

Thomas Rosales Jr.

Cindino Gunman (Stunts)

Eddie Perez

Cindino Gunman (Stunts)

No photo

Scott McCoy

Cindino Gunman (Stunts)

Brian Hayes Currie

Cop In Vegas

No photo

Ashley Smock

Huey Pilot

No photo

Charles Lynn Frost

DEA Agent

Joey Miyashima

Tech Guy

No photo

Scott Burkholder

Air Traffic Controller

Kevin Cooney

Judge

No photo

Gérard L'Heureux

Guard Renfro

Pete Antico

Guard Garner

John Robotham

Guard Ryan

Gilbert Rosales

Ramirez (Stunt)

Richard L. Duran

Warlock (Stunt)

George Randall

Old Con on Plane

Jamie Bozian

Con

No photo

Harley Zumbrum

Con

Doug Dearth

Con

David Roberson

Supervisor

Alexandra Balahoutis

Waitress

No photo

Dick 'Skip' Evans

Airplane Pilot

No photo

Sheldon Worthington

Co-Pilot

No photo

Robert Taft

Soldier

No photo

Robert White

Soldier

Chris Ellis

BOP Official Grant

No photo

John Campbell

BOP Bus Driver

No photo

Brian Willems

Paramedic

Bill Cusack

Paramedic

Dabbs Greer

Old Man Under Truck

Marco Kyris

Cindino's Pilot

Kevin Gage

Billy Joe (uncredited)

Dennis Burkley

Dale (uncredited)

Matthew Barry

Chambers (uncredited)

Scott Rosenberg

Craps dealer (uncredited)

Dylan Haggerty

Starkey

Powers Boothe

Officer at Leaving Ceremony (voice)

Original Soundtrack

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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 this movie but John Malkowich is also great as the main bad guy and Steve Buscemi is perfect as the nutcase although his role could have been a bit more expanded upon. The rest of the actors are doing nicely as well although it always saddens me to see Colm Meaney playing a dumbass and/or bad guy after his role in …

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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), a parolee on his way home to his wife and daughter after serving years in prison for manslaughter. He's travelling on a plane full of the most dangerous criminals currently being held in America, they are being transferred to some new super prison. Inevitably something goes wrong and the cons take over the plane,…

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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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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 sophisticated prison break planned by "Cyrus" (John Malkovich) - intent on hijacking their prison flight and executing a complicated onwards escape plan before the pursuing Colm Meaney ("Agent. Malloy") and an heavily armed squad of soldiers track them down. Luckily for Cage, and the authorities, John Cusack ("Agent…

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Silly perfection! Having just watched this again after twenty-odd years, as it's now available in 4k. My god, Hollywood was great back in the day. This movie is stupid, silly, over-the-top everything, and wholly implausible. But it doesn't matter. It's 100% honest wholesome fun, like an action comic for boys in men's bodies. It's got everything, and everything's like a love letter. I want Criterion to add this to their collection and have some of their film historians create commentary tracks for it. This movie is now in my top ten, and I'll watch at least ten times more. 10/10

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