Con Air

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Movie
German title Con Air
Original title Con Air
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Simon West
script Scott Rosenberg
production Jerry Bruckheimer
music Trevor Rabin ,
Mark Mancina
camera David Tattersall
cut Chris Lebenzon ,
Steve Mirkovich ,
Glen Scantlebury
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Con Air is an American action - thriller by Simon West from the year 1997 with Nicolas Cage in the lead role.

action

Cameron Poe, a highly decorated Army Ranger , kills a man during a self-defense argument to protect his pregnant wife Tricia. However, he cannot prove self-defense and pleads guilty in the hope of a slight penalty. He is then due to manslaughter to imprisonment sentenced from seven to ten years. Tricia sticks to him, but his little daughter only knows her father from letters and photos, as she shouldn't see him with the dark figures in prison.

Eight years later, Cameron is said to be transferred to Louisiana on a prisoner transport plane to be released from there. Most of the remaining passengers, however, are on their way to a new maximum security prison, so that a very elite club of famous violent criminals , including the serial killer Garland Greene, is on board. Some of them, above all the highly intelligent Cyrus “the virus” Grissom, want to hijack the plane and force it to land on a lonely airfield in the desert. A South American drug baron, whose son is also to be freed, has promised the convicts that they will travel to safe countries abroad and a lot of money. The plane was taken over by force, but a drug investigator disguised as a prisoner smuggled his own weapon on board against all instructions. He tries to intervene, but is shot by Cyrus Grissom.

When the explosive situation on the ground becomes known, Duncan Malloy, the vindictive superior of the undercover agent, prepares the downing of the plane by an army helicopter squadron. US Marshal Vince Larkin, who is actually responsible for the security monitoring of this flight, does not want to let the reins be taken out of his hand. He is looking for a solution that will save the innocent - as he browses Cameron's file, he believes he has found an ally on board.

Larkin manages to arrive at the lonely airfield in good time together with a police task force. But the arrest of the criminals fails just as spectacularly as their meeting with the South Americans. The flight continues. Cameron manages to take control of the cockpit, and Larkin prevents the plane from being shot down at the last second. But the fuel wasn't enough to reach the next airport and crash landed - right in the middle of the famous Las Vegas Strip . There Cameron Poe and Vince Larkin deliver one last daring chase with Cyrus and his cronies.

In the end, all but one of the bad guys have come to an end, and Cameron finally meets his family. However, he doesn't make a good first impression on his daughter: Dirty, disheveled and torn down, he looks worse than anything she would have seen on a visit to the prison. In the last scene of the film, Garland Greene is seen in a casino as the supposed last survivor of the most serious criminals.

Unrated Extended Edition

For the R rating , Con Air had to be cut by around six minutes . Extreme scenes of violence and "dirty" words have been removed from the film. This cut version was also released on DVD in Germany and was approved by the FSK for people aged 18 and over. In addition to this version, the so-called Unrated Extended Edition was later released on DVD , which again contained all the scenes cut for the R-Rating. The FSK then re-examined the film and now approved the Unrated Extended Edition for people aged 16 and over.

Others

  • The English word con ( Eng . "Fraud") is also the slang term for convict ( Eng . "Convict").
  • "Con Air" is colloquially (US) the term used for transporting prisoners by plane.
  • The transport of prisoners by air is based on the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System of the United States Marshals Service .
  • The scenes at the airfield in the desert were filmed on the former military site in Wendover, Utah .
  • The aircraft shown in the film is a Fairchild C-123 . On August 1, 2010, the machine with the registration number N709RR was completely destroyed in a collision with Mount Healy in Alaska .

Reviews

The film received mixed reviews, earning a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 62 reviews. At Metacritic one could Metascore of 52, 22 reviews, achieved based.

“Jerry Bruckheimer and director Simon West cooked Con Air according to the recipe for success that also made The Rock a hit with the audience: modern, fast and effectively staged riot cinema that is refined by excellent actors. [...] With technical sophistication and rhythmic elegance, [Simon West] put together a spectacular action blast, in which the rapid speed ensures moist palms and a pinch of humor for the necessary breath in between. While the producer and writer proudly point out that the development of the characters takes the cinema-goer's breath away, Con Air is actually so fascinating for an almost opposite reason: It offers the brilliant but unusual combination that a handful of top-class actors face admirable Modesty can be turned into cogs in a perfectly staged action machine. "

- Cinema

“A breathless action ripper with blockbuster quality, which presents itself as a wild orgy of brutal effects, sounds and explosions and is only aimed at overpowering. No matter how free he is of content-related claims: his cynical attitude makes him as unsympathetic as it is questionable. "

- Lexicon of international film

“A Jerry Bruckheimer production ( The Rock ) that perfectly meets all the public's demands for modern action films: non-stop fights from man to man, a brutal soundtrack, spectacular stunt performances and powerful explosions. In addition, the directorial debut of ex-commercial filmmaker Simon West has some of the most popular male Hollywood stars to offer: In addition to action icon Nicolas Cage ( In the Body of the Enemy ), John Malkovich ( Dangerous Liaisons ), Ving Rhames ( Pulp Fiction ) and John Cusack ( High Fidelity ). "

- kino.de

“The ensemble of leading actors is largely at home in independent films and would be able to deliver material with the predicate 'particularly valuable' at any time. But there are plenty of other opportunities for that; In this brilliant blockbuster the guys just have fun. And the viewer does not have time to mourn the lack of profundity and substance when they watch a plane crash into the heart of Las Vegas. "

- Nick Hilditch, BBC

Awards

  • In 1998, the film was nominated for an Oscar in the categories of Best Movie ("How Do I Live" by Diane Warren ) and Best Sound , but came away empty-handed.
  • In 1998 the film won the negative Golden Raspberry Award in a special category for which candidates have only been nominated once so far: the most ruthless disregard for human life and public property . The film received it for the crash landing scene in the middle of Las Vegas .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Con Air . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2006 (PDF; re-examination Extended Cut, formerly FSK 18, test number: 77445bDVD).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Con Air . Youth Media Commission (  TV version).
  3. ↑ Comparison between the FSK 18 version and the Unrated Extended Edition on Schnittberichte.com
  4. ^ Con Air (1997) - Filming & Production
  5. ↑ C-123 Providers starring in "Con Air"
  6. ^ Accident description on AviationSafetyNetwork
  7. ↑ Con Air at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  8. ↑ Con Air at Metacritic (English)
  9. ↑ Con Air on cinema.de
  10. ^ Con Air. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  11. ↑ Con Air on kino.de
  12. ↑ Con Air on bbc.co.uk