Nice action flick with some stupid parts..

Rating: 7/10 (28 August 2005)

Contains Spoilers *Warning* Truth to say, i liked this movie.. It tells the story about a Ranger (Nicholas Cage) who gets involved in a drunken fight concerning his wife, and he accidentally kills one of the men. He gets put in San Quentin, and stays there for a couple of years and then all of a sudden they decide that they have to escort some prisoners to another prison. They do so, by plane. On this plane there are some crazy villains and some not so crazy.. For example we have the bad guy Cyrus The Virus(John Malkovich), who i found to be extremely overexagurated. However Malkovich as usual gives us a top notch performance. Now most of the characters i found extremely clichÃ©d. However there was one guy. One character they could actually make a whole movie about, but instead they throw him in late in this movie. Its Steve Buscemis character I'm talking about. He is so mystical and so weird but in a nice kind of a way, that you don't know whether to hate him or love him. he tells you gruesome stories like how he wore a girls head as a hat but in the end he becomes totally normal and ends up gambling in Las Vegas. Ah yes, the film ends in las Vegas.. Now here are some stupid things, they have to land the airplane somewhere in las Vegas and they cant make it to the airfield. So they have to land it on THE STRIP! i mean Come On! And during this attempt to land, Mr Poe(Nicholas Cage)'s friend called "baby-O" gets shot and is fatally wounded. So Poe gets started on a frenzy. He walks right up to the pilot and gets Shot in the arm on the way with out making the slightest move! However, they manage to land the plane strangely enough but Cyrus and his friends makes a run for it! So Poe starts chasing them.. Now Cyrus's death is one of the most stupidest death's i have ever seen.. First, he gets a pole right through his leg, then he gets smashed through some windows tied to a ladder, then he falls right through some electrical wires and THEN he land on some kind of a industrial machine that crushes things and he has the bad luck to get his head right under it. IN THE MIDDLE OF LAS VEGAS! A INDUSTRIAL MACHINE?! Now there's also Vince (John Cusack) who tries to help Mr Poe. He's kinda boring, but he gives the story somewhat of a lift.. And it really did need a lift.. Other than that, this is a nice little action flick. Yes it does contain stupid and unrealistic parts, but hey its action. The performances are great especially from Steve Buscemi who practically made this movie. If it was'nt for him, this movie would go way down. If you're looking for some nice action this is what you want. If you want some realistic thought provoking movie, this is not what you want.