Strap yourself in, hold tight and prepare for take off in Wolfgang Petersen's exciting edge of your seat action thriller starring Harrison Ford as the President of the United States who has to fend off Russian terrorists, led by Gary Oldman, who have seized control of the President's plane Air Force One for the release of a General who had previously been captured by US Special Forces.
Petersen takes the Die Hard concept and racks up the tension to 11, often sacrificing implausibility for thrills and action that only work because of the likeability and charisma of Ford who knows how to pull these types of movies off and the nastiness of Oldman's character who, although a little stereotypical, has you rooting for the President to dispense with the crazed villain by taking things into his own hands.
This is pure popcorn entertainment and not one to be scrutinised for accuracy, for example there is no escape pod in the real Air Force One. The movie takes the tried and tested cliches of the genre and cranks them up to high octane levels and for all the cheesiness and American jingoism going on here you are too busy holding onto the white knuckle ride to care.
A thoroughly entertaining action movie with a big budget that's up there on the screen even though it wants to have it's cake and eat it in the final third as Petersen gives us several climatic scenes that threaten to outstay it's welcome.
Petersen takes the Die Hard concept and racks up the tension to 11, often sacrificing implausibility for thrills and action that only work because of the likeability and charisma of Ford who knows how to pull these types of movies off and the nastiness of Oldman's character who, although a little stereotypical, has you rooting for the President to dispense with the crazed villain by taking things into his own hands.
This is pure popcorn entertainment and not one to be scrutinised for accuracy, for example there is no escape pod in the real Air Force One. The movie takes the tried and tested cliches of the genre and cranks them up to high octane levels and for all the cheesiness and American jingoism going on here you are too busy holding onto the white knuckle ride to care.
A thoroughly entertaining action movie with a big budget that's up there on the screen even though it wants to have it's cake and eat it in the final third as Petersen gives us several climatic scenes that threaten to outstay it's welcome.