Your IQ must be this low to watch this movie...

Rating: Null/10 (30 March 2000)

What a hideous movie. At numerous points, I felt like the movie was contrived and at others, I felt like the movie writers were making obvious and shameful attempts to grab the viewers' emotions.
Like with Buscemi's character - he goes off to one side, finds a child in the middle of nowhere. The director alludes to the fact that he maligns and destroys the girl, and then later, reveals that nothing apparently happened. What am I, a voodoo doll for the director's pleasure?
And the reason for Cage's character to remain on the plane (and in the story line) felt like it was decided on by committee and sewn in with big stitches. He has to save his diabetic black friend and hispanic lady officer. How much more PC could it have gotten? I guess they could have made the guard pregnant and the friend a father of octuplets...
I guess my final complaint would be Malkovich's character's gruesome end - he gets his head flattened by some pile-driver machinery. Where did that come from? I was stunned and could only imagine another committee-decided plot-point here: "We got 3 votes for impalement on a picket fence, 4 for death by country music, and a whopping 7 for the pile-driver." This is exactly the kind of tripe that Itchy and Scratchy was made to parody.
I think that if a movie has big bucks to spend on big actors, big bucks should likewise be spent on good writers and editors who know how to put spit and polish on the movie to make it look good. If you haven't already seen this, why don't you give it a pass and watch a classic action flick, like Die Hard or Predator.