Con Air
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68% Critic Match

Con Air

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

6.8 / 10 1997 1h 56mR English
ActionThrillerCrime

Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

Cameron Poe

Lead
John Cusack

John Cusack

Agent Vince Larkin

John Malkovich

John Malkovich

Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames

Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones

Mykelti Williamson

Mykelti Williamson

"Baby-O" O'Dell

Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle

"Pinball" Parker

Colm Meaney

Colm Meaney

Agent Duncan Malloy

Monica Potter

Monica Potter

Tricia Poe

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Simon West's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Con Air is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker