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Summary: Sky-high entretainment
Review: "Air Force One" is an intelligent and hugely entertaining film, perfectly paced and with some rivetting action sequences. Harrison Ford has the neccessary screen presence to play the US President with conviction, and if I lived in America I'd want to vote for this guy! And while it's a shame Gary Oldman always seems to end up playing the nasty villain, his character here is deeper than most movie bad-guys, and he is an exceptionally good actor - anyone who's seen "Leon" will know what I'm talking about. There are some dodgy bits, like the special effects at the end and the willful abandon of basic scientific laws, as mentioned by other reviewers, but on the whole this gets 5 stars for being a cracking two-hour thrill ride that never lets up. Serious issues are raised, characters who you thought might survive are unexpectedly executed (showing the brutality of terrorism) and there are some impressively long tracking shots which must have been very difficult to pull off. Watch this instead of "Con Air".
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Summary: Great Movie, Great DVD
Review: "Air Force One" is a great movie, one of the best action thrillers of it's kind since "Speed"in 1994. Harrison Ford as always is perfect in this role as the president of the United States, and the rest of the cast give good performances also. The action scenes in this movie are clever, original, suspenseful. The DVD is also great while there arent many extras on the disc the transfer was just as good as it was in theaters if not better, the sound is actually better and if you have a good sound system it's even better.
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Summary: A Gripping, Exciting, Edge of your seat thriller
Review: "Air Force One" is a gripping, exciting, edge of your seat thriller, it hits cruising speed with it's first scene and it nevr slows down. Harrison Ford does a good job as the commander-in-chief, but it is Gary Oldman who steals the show, his performance as a determined russian terrorist is terrific. My only complaint about the movie is that it starts to become weak toward the ending, other than that I feel that this is a superb action thriller. The DVD is good also, while there aren't many extras the picture quality is excellent and the audio will blast you out of your seat.
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Summary: Disastrous Disaster Movie Worthy of Impeachment
Review: "Air Force One" is a throwback to the old airline disater films of "Airport" and their subsequent farces, but when the credits start rolling this film is more reminiscent of "Airplane!" As ridiculous as the aforementioned, this film is the greatest blot on Harrison Ford's career ever, with the exception possibly of "Sabrina." In comparsion to "Airplane!" the only two things missing from this epic farce are the two jive-speaking black guys. President Jim Marshall(Ford) is returning from a successful diplomatic visit to Russia when all of a sudden his plane is inexplicably taken over by Kazak terrorists. They are assisted by a secret service agent,(whose involvement is never explained at all!) and led by the ever so slithering rogue Gary Oldman. Oldman delivers the film's best performance but it is to no avail in this "lots of action-big stars-who needs a script or a believable plot!" cinematic blunder. Oldman pops off aide after aide in desperate attempt to get Ford to release a fellow Kazak held prisoner in Moscow. This President shows his moves by beating up terrorists, skillfully commuticating with Politically Correct Co-Star and Vice-President Glenn Close in Washington, not to mention remorselessly sacrificing his staff members to Oldman's execution squad before finally giving in when the gun is pointed at the first family. In the movie's only good scene, Jurgen Prochnow cameos as the detained General Radik, and is heroically led out of Lubianka prison in Moscow to the strains of "L'Internationalle." Of course, this scene is interrupted and we're back to "Chuck Norris: President" in a poorly choregraphed fight scene that ends with one of Hollywood's all time worst cliches. Don't rent it, don't buy it, and when the day comes that Harrison Ford unfortunately meets his maker, please forget he ever disgraced himself in this quick-buck, mindless holocaust. END
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Summary: Sky-high entretainment
Review: "Air Force One" is an intelligent and hugely entertaining film, perfectly paced and with some rivetting action sequences. Harrison Ford has the neccessary screen presence to play the US President with conviction, and if I lived in America I'd want to vote for this guy! And while it's a shame Gary Oldman always seems to end up playing the nasty villain, his character here is deeper than most movie bad-guys, and he is an exceptionally good actor - anyone who's seen "Leon" will know what I'm talking about. There are some dodgy bits, like the special effects at the end and the willful abandon of basic scientific laws, as mentioned by other reviewers, but on the whole this gets 5 stars for being a cracking two-hour thrill ride that never lets up. Serious issues are raised, characters who you thought might survive are unexpectedly executed (showing the brutality of terrorism) and there are some impressively long tracking shots which must have been very difficult to pull off. Watch this instead of "Con Air".
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Summary: I don't like action movies, but. . .
Review: . . .I liked this one. Of course this is the president we'd all like to have, a loving father, a stunning fighter, and great one-liners for any life threatening situation. This movie was suspense from beginning to the end, and chances are you already know that, cause who likes action has seen this film.
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Summary: Would make anyone proud ...
Review: ... to be an American! (No matter where you're from.)Terrorists hijack Air Force One. Harrison Ford is President. Take it from there. A well-paced thriller, with characters - good and bad - having more than one dimension. Moments of ruthless cruelty - and moments of extraordinary courage and valor.
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Summary: Harrison Ford's Got My Vote...
Review: ...because he is one mean-old President when he gets his Irish up! When terrorists take over AirForce One, it's up to the President himself to subdue the enemy. Suspenseful from start to finish, although feminists should take umbrage at the indecisiveness displayed by the female Vice President who's willing to placate the evil-doers. Notwithstanding that, just the kind of patriotic movie to fire up every red-blooded American.
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Summary: Air Force One (1997)
Review: I rewatched this movie just last night (April 13th, 2003), to see what messages it actually uses to play on people's fears and misconceptions about the world around America. At times embarassing, at times eerily in tune with current events, and at all times constantly questioning one's own common sense. Hollywood is always seeking to entertain and distract its audience, but putting such political issues in focus without any thought or plausibility insults those with any mind to question. Let's just say this is a theatre piece, and dramatic elements have to be employed to add to the plot or sequence of events. That this, and so many movies of its kind employ the use of Russians as the enemy (usually using a British actor to supply the villainy) perpetuates stereotypes and misinformation that has existed since the Cold War's birth. I loved the fact that America was seen as a bastion of technology, with blinking lights and computer screens, and intercoms, technology at the helm, while Russia and its leader had a little red phone and a bear on his table. Fantastic. It automatically sets up a perception that Russia is weaker on all fronts, and the victor will always be America, so the whole premise of the film being America in danger is compromised by its visualisation of its power as compared to Eastern Europe. It throws the whole plot out the window by default. Apart from its Nationalistic stance, the dialogue of the film borders on the ludicrous to outright childlike. The only bite that is heard in this film is from the actual enemy (portrayed by Gary Oldman) when questioning the President's (Harrison Ford) moral constitute when dealing with his Oldman's homeland. The points raised were the only plausible or believeable lines in this movie, but it all too quickly falls into the 'remake Rambo' style of filmmaking too many times. This is just entertainment for the masses, and does not ask any questions of moral fortitude or revenge, or anything actually relevant to anything in any real world situation. Should I take this movie just as it is, entertainment, or for what it represents, 'Horse Blinker' propaganda aimed at the public. I cannot guess why films like this get made???? All that money wasted on a piece of junk. The CGI throughout is quite weak, especially the 'crash' at the end which pays no heed to what a plane would actually do when hitting the water, which WOULD have been far more dramatic a conclusion, if they just paid attention to physics. It was actually hilarious. I think the scariest bit had to be the speech at the beginning of the film by Harrison Ford. I've heard it before somewhere.... Don't waste your time, money, patience, eyesight, hearing or mind on this huge waste of finances. I can't believe some of the actors actually did.
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Summary: Great action - a Harrison Ford trait
Review: A great movie for Harrison Ford fans. Ranks with it's cousins Patriot Games and Clear & Present Danger. One minor flaw for this military veteran reviewer - toward the end of the movie the President (Ford) asks an Air Force major (William H. Macy) if he know how to fly, and the answer is "No". The major is wearing Master Pilot wings on his shirt, but he doesn't know how to fly . . .
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