Air Force One (1997)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/scope 124m
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Glenn Close, Jürgen Prochnow, Philip Baker Hall
Synopsis:
An extremist Kazakh general is taken prisoner by the Russians with the help of the USA and the President ends his visit saying that henceforth more would be done to eradicate terrorist regimes; then his own aircraft is hijacked by Russian renegade soldiers and his words are put to the test.
Review:
More airborne mayhem (cf. Passenger 57, Executive Decision), though of a superior kind. The familiar Die Hard ingredients are there: an unsuspecting target, a husband who covertly and solely combats the terrorists, a ruthless villain, and a running time of Bond proportions. It all works swimmingly once the premise has been established that the President's aircraft is bullet proof and that therefore automatic weapons can be fired off at will. The characterisation of the President is an astute piece of national psychoanalysis at the time of the Bush scandals.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/scope 124m
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Glenn Close, Jürgen Prochnow, Philip Baker Hall
Synopsis:
An extremist Kazakh general is taken prisoner by the Russians with the help of the USA and the President ends his visit saying that henceforth more would be done to eradicate terrorist regimes; then his own aircraft is hijacked by Russian renegade soldiers and his words are put to the test.
Review:
More airborne mayhem (cf. Passenger 57, Executive Decision), though of a superior kind. The familiar Die Hard ingredients are there: an unsuspecting target, a husband who covertly and solely combats the terrorists, a ruthless villain, and a running time of Bond proportions. It all works swimmingly once the premise has been established that the President's aircraft is bullet proof and that therefore automatic weapons can be fired off at will. The characterisation of the President is an astute piece of national psychoanalysis at the time of the Bush scandals.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/scope 124m
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Glenn Close, Jürgen Prochnow, Philip Baker Hall
Synopsis:
An extremist Kazakh general is taken prisoner by the Russians with the help of the USA and the President ends his visit saying that henceforth more would be done to eradicate terrorist regimes; then his own aircraft is hijacked by Russian renegade soldiers and his words are put to the test.
Review:
More airborne mayhem (cf. Passenger 57, Executive Decision), though of a superior kind. The familiar Die Hard ingredients are there: an unsuspecting target, a husband who covertly and solely combats the terrorists, a ruthless villain, and a running time of Bond proportions. It all works swimmingly once the premise has been established that the President's aircraft is bullet proof and that therefore automatic weapons can be fired off at will. The characterisation of the President is an astute piece of national psychoanalysis at the time of the Bush scandals.