Con Air (1997)

Name: Con Air
Released: 1997
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Ving Rhames, Mykelti Williamson

• Movies, Action, Crime, Thriller

• 116 min

6.7

They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.

Directed by: Simon West
Casting: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Ving Rhames, Mykelti Williamson, Dave Chappelle, Colm Meaney, Monica Potter, Landry Allbright, Rachel Ticotin, Steve Buscemi, Nick Chinlund, M.C. Gainey, Danny Trejo, Renoly Santiago, Steve Eastin, Brendan Kelly, Jesse Borrego, Carl Ciarfalio, Mongo Brownlee, José Zúñiga, Ned Bellamy, John Marshall Jones, John Roselius, Fredric Lehne, Martin McSorley, Dylan Haggerty, Dan Bell, Bob Stephenson, Scott Ditty, Tommy Bush, Lauren Pratt, Steve Hulin, Don Charles McGovern, Angela Featherstone, Doug Hutchison, Jeris Poindexter, David Ramsey, Conrad Goode, Emilio Rivera, Mario Roberts, Ty Granderson Jones, Earl Billings, Greg Collins, Billy Devlin, Mark Ginther, Joseph Patrick Kelly, Jeff Olson, Dawn Bluford, Charlie Paddock, Randee Barnes, Don S. Davis, Barbara Sharma, Thomas Rosales Jr., Eddie Perez, Scott McCoy, Brian Hayes Currie, Ashley Smock, Charles Lynn Frost, Joey Miyashima, Scott Burkholder, Kevin Cooney, Gérard L'Heureux, Pete Antico, John Robotham, Gilbert Rosales, Richard L. Duran, George Randall, Jamie Bozian, Harley Zumbrum, Doug Dearth, David Roberson, Alexandra Balahoutis, Dick 'Skip' Evans, Sheldon Worthington, Robert Taft, Robert White, Chris Ellis, John Campbell, Brian Willems, Bill Cusack, Dabbs Greer, Marco Kyris, Kevin Gage, Sam Arnold, Dennis Burkley
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1997-06-05
Status: Released

Tags: prison, helicopter, airplane, escape, undercover, ambush, war veteran, gas station, psychopath, bravery, mexican standoff, sandstorm, hijacking, us army, prison guard, u.s. marshal, serial killer, shootout, las vegas, explosion, brutality, convict, desert, war hero, diabetic, dea agent, hostile takeover, skyjacker, motorcycle chase, disguises, action hero, army veteran, prisoner transport, transport plane, absurd

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.