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"Con Air" is a film from 1997 starring Nicolas Cage and generally featuring many other actors to the point where you could say it has a stellar cast.
The plot is essentially the same as all American action movies: a tough but ultimately good guy against a bunch of bad guys. More specifically: Nicolas Cage is Cameron Poe, a military man who for his own reasons also has a girlfriend. He decides to impregnate her and then, rightly, to get involved in a brawl where someone dies and it’s a bit funny too. In the end, he found himself in the middle by chance, but he is convicted. So, he goes to prison. There, he meets a Kid two meters tall with whom he builds a solid relationship. Then the day of his release arrives, but something goes wrong. They have to transfer a lot of extremely dangerous convicts and he finds himself in the middle again by chance. Even the now inseparable Kid is with him. They all board a plane from the company Con Air (strange coincidence, Con Air is also the title of a film with Nicolas Cage!). During the flight, a mess occurs and the convicts, who had planned everything from early childhood, seize the plane. Poe at this point doesn’t know what to do, join the others in escaping, or try to resolve the situation? He decides to play the hero. And dies.
No, he doesn’t die, but it would have been better. Among the convicts, notable names: Steve Buscemi in the role of cHannibal Lecter. Danny Trejo (also famous for other films, including Con Air) a dangerous Mexican man with a mysterious past. John Malkovich who plays himself, oh no, that was another film, here he plays the boss. Ving Rhames in the role of the boss Marcellus on a trip to Las Vegas to hunt down Butch. And many others, including a cute stuffed bunny, which plays a key role as the film progresses.
With various stratagems and an interesting use of hair, Poe slowly tries to sabotage the convicts’ plan.
Among explosions and spectacular aerial shots, top-notch physical confrontations, shootings, dialogues about faith and the role of hamsters in economies of scale, people stuck in their cars waiting for a corpse and little girls playing alone in the middle of the desert, the film drags the listener into a crescendo of emotions towards a thrilling finale, which I won’t reveal here.
But I’ll tell you here: yes, he makes it, and he even saves the bunny from the sewer.
Production: Jerry Bruckheimer
Critical Analysis: The film looks good.
The expert's opinion: "I liked it".
The entrepreneur's opinion: "there's a crisis".
The protagonist: Nicolas Cage in one of his most intense performances, or at least it rivals "The Rock" and "Gone in 60 Seconds".
Fun fact: the tank top is the same one worn by Bruce Willis in "Die Hard 1, 2, 3, 4."
Special Effects: there are none, all scenes actually happened.
The gem: the film also features John Cusack, in an unspecified "strategic" role.
Soundtrack: someone had the brilliant idea to put Lynyrd Skynyrd on the plane.
The line: "I only trust two people, one is me, the other isn’t you". (In the end, it turns out the other person is actually the stuffed animal).
The cult scene: a Porsche that flies. And then falls.
A tough movie for tough people, not budgerigars.
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