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Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. I have the only gun on board. Welcome to Con Air.
Former Army Ranger Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) was convicted of manslaughter after defending his wife from a drunken attacker. Now, ten years later, he’s at the end of his sentence and about to be reunited with his wife and daughter. He just has to survive a trip on Con Air: a heavy-duty plane transporting the prison system’s worst of the worst. When terrifying criminal mastermind Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich) stages a revolt and aims the plane towards a non-extradition country, Poe is the only one on board with the skills to stop him. But can this one-man army keep the plane over US soil, maintain his cover, and get home to his wife and child without disrupting the greatest mullet in cinematic history?
One of the biggest action films of the 1990s is finally back where it belongs: up on the big screen, where every monumental action beat, every strained quip, and every over-the-top explosion can be enjoyed the way it was intended. Cage and Malkovich star alongside a most 1997 cast that features John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, Dave Chapelle and Colm Meaney. It’s big, it’s loud, it’s ridiculous, and it’s the only film bold enough to ask the question: why couldn’t you put the bunny back in the box?
"Rosenberg’s sarcastic, tough-guy dialogue is full of lean-and-mean one-liners, and the superbly cast actors know how to milk them for all they’re worth." – Variety
Please note: this film screens as part of MIFF’s Cage-a-Thon Marathon. All tickets to the event are 18+
