Nicolas Cage Movie:

		List Price: $29.99		Label: Touchstone Home Entertainment Salesrank: 10301 Released: January 8, 2008
		Our Price: $17.00
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Buckle up for a pure adrenaline rush! (Sixty Second Preview) as producer Jerry Bruckheimer s explosive hit Con Air detonates on Blu-ray Disc. Starring acclaimed actors Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride soars to new heights in this remarkable format.
A prison parolee (Cage) on his way to freedom faces impossible odds when the maximum security transport plane he s on is skyjacked by the 10 most vicious criminals in the country. Experience death-defying stunts and mind-blowing special effects in eye-popping 1080p while jet engines roar and turbulent action rocks your world in 5.1 48 kHz, 24-bit uncompressed audio. The excitement takes off and never lets up with Blu-ray High Definition!

Description of Con Air [Blu-ray]:
Con Air is proof that the slick, absurdly overblown action formula of Hollywood mega-producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Crimson Tide) lives on, even after Simpson's druggy death. (Read Charles Fleming's exposé, High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess, for more about that.) Nicolas Cage, sporting a disconcerting mane of hair, is a wrongly convicted prisoner on a transport plane with a bunch of infamously psychopathic criminals, including head creep Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich), black militant Diamond Dog (Ving Rhames), and serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi, making the most of his pallid, rodent-like qualities). Naturally, the convicts take over the plane; meanwhile, on the ground, a US marshal (John Cusack) and a DEA agent (Colm Meaney) try to figure out what to do. As is the postmodern way, the movie displays a self-consciously ironic awareness that its story and characters are really just excuses for a high-tech cinematic thrill ride. Best idea: the filmmakers persuaded the owners of the legendary Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to let them help out with the structure's demolition by crashing their plane into it. --Jim Emerson

Con Air [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Keep Your Trays And Seatbacks In An Upright Position
2009-12-17 - My goodness, is CON AIR lame. A hulked-up Nicolas Cage (sporting quite the shaggy mane) trying to spit out a southern accent. An assembly of cons so nasty and mean they put Dante's Inferno to shame. Steve Buscemi as a mass murderer? Come on. Maybe a serial peeping Tom; at least that's more believable. And a huge Federal transport plane, in flight, suddenly and violently taken over by the inmates.

Really, really lame.

Ridiculous as the entire movie is (with its goofball, over-the-top ending), I still had fun watching CON AIR--primarily because it's mindless violence. I found myself looking forward to the next death-defying escapade, wondering how director Simon West was going to top the previous madcap shenanigans. And if you're going to have a cold, brutal, calculating villain (with one of my alltime favorite character names: Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom), whom better than a smug John Malkovich? The action is, as mentioned before, fast and furious, with Cage playing a former Army Ranger finally going home to meet his young daughter, only to be caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time and having to duke it out with the bad guys in oh so many interesting ways. John Cusack plays an "Aw, shucks" U.S. Marshal on the ground forever chasing the plane, while Colm Meaney constantly annoys as an arrogant DEA agent. Everything about CON AIR is so silly you won't be able to believe you just watched it, yet its high octane silliness will make you glad you did.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

A guy movie.
2009-11-18 - My husband added this to his video collection. It's an enjoyable movie, but more of a guy movie. A little too intense for me at times.

The Definitive Version of Con-Air.
2009-07-22 - I was suprised by how subtle some of the extended footage was and some of it being not so subtle. The footage certainly adds depth to the storyline, the relationship between Poe and Baby-O and why poe made the choices he did other than "just" being a Ranger. While the extended and unrated footage isn't to the extent of say Aliens or Terminator 2 it amazes me how 7 additional minutes can add so much to an already great film.

The bottom line is you've probably seen the movie many times and are wondering if an unrated and extended edition is worth buying the movie again or maybe you don't own it and are asking why not just buy the theatrical version? It seemed to me being unrated it was a bit more graphic, a bit more blood, a bit more violent,and there are many, many more f-boms thrown in including a new great one liner between Cameron Poe and Johnny 23. This is the definitive version of the film.

This is the throw everyting including the kitchen sink edition. The widescreen looks good and clear, the sound is crisp it's an enjoyable film with a great cast, a movie you'd expect to hit theaters with all the other Summer Blockbusters. So some of the extended and unrated footage works, some works really well and some falls flat, some could have stayed out of the movie but for the most part it adds to the enjoyment of the movie. For instance some thing that may not have been on screen you just assumed or figured out for yourself and now it's right there for you to see and hear.

Con air
2009-07-12 - This movie is a great movie, I have seen the edited version, and thought that maybe I was missing some of the movie by not having the unedited version. Both movies are complete, the only difference is the amount of swearing using the "F" word. I feel the edited version is a better choice.

Con Air and I am your Flight Attendant for this Flight.!
2009-06-27 - I it totally not plausable, and totally fun! Every corner Nicholas Cage turns in this movie, despite his crummy Southern accent, he hads to get to his baby daughters birthday, He will do anything to get there and there and this band of pure consciousless devils will stop the process at every turn, even once it ic grounded. I never cried at Titanic but a few tears slipped out at the ending scene. I don't want to spoil the end, but it was so much action and the end was so sweet. Buy the movie you won't be sorry you did !