Excellent actionthriller, but "The Rock was better.

Rating: 8/10 (20 April 2000)

Con-air can be viewed upon as the sequel to "The Rock" because of the following things: 1) it has the same star(N.Cage) and producer(J. Bruckheimer) as "The Rock" 2) storywise it can easily be what happened to Nicolas Cage`s character from "The Rock, after he escaped Alcatraz. Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a military-officer who kills a man to protect his wife. Poe is sentenced to 7 years in prison. 7 years later he is going aboard a plane called "con-air", which will be taking him back to his wife and daughter. Everything is not running smoothly though, as the other convicts take over the plane. Poe does not want to be a part of the hijacking so he does what he can to prevent the plain from reaching the destination set by the other convicts, and he tries to tell the police where they are heading. The film has plenty of cool actionscenes and two quality actors(Cage and Malcowich). However, the movie is not as good as "The Rock", and the music is lame when compared to "the Rock`s" soundtrack. It must still be said that Con-air is a very good movie and one of the best American actionmovies of 1997. Rent it! 9/10