• Con Air -- Senseless thrills, fast redeemable fun, 6/10.

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Released in June of 1997, this action-thriller directed by Simon West, and producer by Jerry Bruckheimer would gross over 220-million, and for better or worse: cement Nicolas Cage as an action star for years to come. Complete with a distractingly over-the-top southern accent, Cage stars as a former US Army Ranger who serves eight years in prison following involuntary manslaughter charges, attempting to protect his pregnant wife, Monica Porter. Before he can finally see his daughter though, he must ride on-board a C-123 airplane transporting the nation's worst criminals: among them, Ving Rhames, Mykelti Williamson, Steve Buscemi, and the undeniably creepy John Malkovich as the main antigonist. US Marshal John Cusack, with some stubborn help from Colm Meaney do their best to thrwart these hardened bad-guys after Malkovich hi-jacks the plane following a bizarre, and highly unrealistic chain of events. What follows then is a 115-minute poor-man's version of "Air Force One"... except with a long-haired, Alamba-talking Cage attempting to stop the bad guys and save lives. Awkwardly scored by the original hit single, "How Do I Live" -- much of this picture almost plays out like an amusing parody of a realistic action film -- the characters, motivations, corny one-liners, and massive set pieces are so over-the-top and absurd, its easy to enjoy this picture ironically. Many individual sequences do work well however, like Cage writing a message on a dead-convict, before dropping his corpse into a busy intersection thousands of feet below; in an attempt to transmit a message to Cusack, helping from the ground. An especially ridiculous final-act plane crash sequence down the Las Vegas boulevard is so gratuitous, director West almost seems to be showing off. Malkovich and Buscemi clearly have fun with their "scum of the earth" personas, playing directly into typecast for both -- the rest of the cast however is either underutilized, or painfully misused, like comedian Dave Chappelle as a fast-talking punk amongst a bunch of hard-ass prisoners. From a purely action stand-point though, "Con Air" works -- the explosions are big and fun, the chase scenes fast and thrilling... the fist-fights and stand-offs believable and intense. A decently enjoyable ride that's unfortunately forgettable, it's hard to fault this movie for being exactly what you expect: a flash in the pan, exaggerated mess of action-movie clichés: rendered here with excellent stunts, visuals, sound effects, and pacing. "Con Air", "Senseless thrills, fast redeemable fun." 
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