"ConAir" had more brains than this garbage. It was funnier too.

Rating: 1/10 (17 September 1998)

I hate John Travolta and Nic Cage(Please don't e-mail me with your hate mail). They have both been in good movies("Look Who's Talking", "ConAir", "Get Shorty", and even "Phenomenon" and "Guarding Tess") but Cage turned in the worst performance ever by an actor in the little-seen Coppola project "Deadfall", and was also awful in the remake of "Kiss of Death"(Sam Jackson rules!). He goes over-the-top as a baddie, and came across as slightly irritating as a good guy in OK films like "Honeymoon in Vegas"(Love that Sarah Jessica Parker")and lesser ones like "It Could Happen to You", "Trapped in Paradise" et al. Travolta was in the godawful, unintentionally funny "Saturday Night Fever", he was overrated in the overrated, unnecessarily yucky "Pulp Fiction"(Sam Jackson still rules!), was pathetic as a baddie in "Broken Arrow", and he dances too much.
I can't believe the critics love this so much. The plot is dumber than a "police Academy" flick. It's too flashy(I like standard "Commando" or "T-2" actioners)and stylish(The next time I see slow motion, or a guy holding two guns in a John Woo movie, I am going to shoot myself!!!) and the actors are awful when playing baddies(they swap faces or something). It's true, they're not too bad when they are playing the John Travolta federal agent character, and the ending is nice, but this flick is too long, too over-the-top, too dumb, and I HATE Nic Cage and John Travolta!(They seem nice in real life, though). Gets a C+(average) simply because I don't want hordes of teenage girls beating the bejesus out of me. Actually, yes I do, but that's another story...