Con Air
6.8/10
Rating
116 min
Runtime
1997
Release Year
Simon West
Director
Cast
Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Ving Rhames, Mykelti Williamson
Quick Synopsis
Cameron Poe, a former US Army Ranger who has just been released on parole, is traveling home to reunite with his wife. He is on a prison transport plane known as "Jailbird," which is carrying some of the most dangerous inmates in the country to a new maximum-security prison. During the flight, the plane is hijacked by a group of violent criminals led by Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, a highly intelligent serial killer, along with his accomplices Diamond Dog, a black militant, and Billy Bedlam, a psychopath. Poe must navigate this dangerous situation and find a way to protect himself and others while trying to survive the ordeal.
Detailed Synopsis of Con Air
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.
