Immensely entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (4 August 2016)

"Con Air" is like a nice souvenir from that late-'90s sweet spot when Nicolas Cage action movies were good. For my money, this is his "road House"; the hair, the accent, the roundhouses. It's impossible to take him seriously (and yet he's the sterling hero of the movie) and that applies to the rest of the movie as a whole. One wrong move, and this could be insultingly stupid, But that move never comes, and the absurdity is somehow very appealing. This is a great cast, spouting macho dialogue to a screaming guitar score; violence and explosions all over the place while Cage's cartoon character stares down every last convict. And the one-liners just come one right after another. Bruckheimer's not usually my cup of tea, but I had a lot of fun with this.
8/10