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Con Air1997

Name: Con Air
Genre: Survival, Psychological
Released: 1997-06-05
Rating: 6.7

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

Directed by Simon West

6.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.9Rotten Tomatoes 59%Metacritic 52TMDB 6.8

✍ Review

On the charts

#4·Top Horror Movies of 1997

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Year

1997

Runtime

116 min

Box Office

Budget

$75,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$224,012,234

Domestic

$101,117,573

🏆 Nominated for 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 11 nominations total

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

A decorated Army veteran just days out of prison finds himself trapped aboard a hijacked transport plane carrying the most dangerous criminals in the federal system. With no allies he can fully trust and a diabetic fellow inmate depending on him, Cameron Poe must outthink a brilliant, ruthless ringleader while law enforcement scrambles helplessly on the ground below. It's a relentless pressure-cooker that never lets its foot off the throttle, blending hard-edged thriller tension with larger-than-life villainy. The fate of every innocent life on board rests on one man's refusal to quit.

Content: Graphic Violence, Shootouts, Brutality, Strong Language, Depictions Of Psychopathic And Criminal Behavior