Far fetched,but likable.

Rating: 7/10 (8 February 2008)

The plot of this film is about as far fetched as you can get,and Nick Cage's southern accent is a bit over the top,yet I find Con Air to be enjoyable nonetheless.We have Cage as a dedicated husband/military man coming home to his "hummingbird",played by Monica Potter,and finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.He accidentally kills a man while defending her and finds himself doing a stretch in prison.He does his time and is released.On his way home to his wife and his baby girl,who is now walking and talking yet he has never met her,he is forced to ride alongside the most hardened,frightening group of convicts you can imagine as they are being transported to a brand new facility.This group is headed by a very convincing John Malkovich as a deranged killer with a frighteningly high Hannibal Lecter like intelligence,and boy does he have something up his sleeve!It is an enjoyable story of hardened men struggling to gain freedom that they don't deserve,and one unlikely con's struggle to get home to his girls.