So much better than typical action movies nowadays.

Rating: 7/10 (2 May 2019)

While certainly it is an entertaining film, is not as good as other over-the-top action flicks of the 90s, Air Force One and Face Off come to mind.
While some one-liners remain classic, some others are just ridiculous. Nic Cage is just Nic Cage, he is kinda hard to take seriously in some of the movies he stars in, but he was acceptable in this. John Cusack and John Malkovich really pull their characters off. I believe the 90s continued a trend with action flicks, that may have started in the 80s and continue today with such unrealistic unplausible plots that somehow the heros magically save the day at the last minute. It all comes down to a greasy machine that keeps manufacturing these overproduced audiovisual pieces just for the sake of a genre, without providing something different to the formula. Well, at least movies like Con Air have a nostalgic element to it that decidely throws in an extra charm. And if you watched it in the 90s and you watch it now in 2019, you obviously realize it hasn't aged well, but it is still highly entertaining and not as bad as you recall. It's actually decent.