Frequent flyer mileage to doom

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 2000)

Nicolas Cage goes to the extreme and really lets himself go in this action-packed adrenaline-releaser, compliments of
Jerry Bruckheimer! The academy-award winning star portrays an army ranger named Cameron Poe, who is sent to prison just for defending his lady love (Monica Potter of "Coyote Ugly"). After several years behind bars, Poe and his cellmate buddy Baby-O (Mykelti Williamson) are being wisked away on a huge prison plane to be released on parole. But troubled abounds
when a psychotic convict named Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
(John Malkovich, who has the best performance in the entire
film) and his band of fellow convicted maniacs take over
the cessna! So, it's up to Poe to stop the bloodthirsty luna- tics before they can unleash more hell.
Nic Cage is beefy and high-kicking as ever, but he's given
little screenplay and heart, unlike his other flicks. Malkovich is high-octaned as ever, and John Cusack treads on new waters playing an action hero for the first time, as he plays a slick U.S. Marshal who aids Poe in stopping the cons. The action is brutal and explosive, very typically Bruckheimer! Catch the twist on what city the jail plane crash lands on; you might think Cage is genetically attached to the place, not that he can help it!