| All I can say is, I'm voting for Harrison Ford! Ok, it's not ALL I can say. It was butt-kicking! I bit off all my nails and I really didn't know what was going to happen next. As Kevin put it, it is the best permutation of Die-Hard-On-A-Plane we've seen in a long time - it was less gung- ho macho silly than Executive Decision, but with all the cool bang em up stuff and innovative good guys and human interest moments. |
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| It's not as explosive as Con-Air but not such a stretch from a motivational point of view. Even as Harrison dangles in danger, we know in our hearts he will win because he's Harrison Ford and he is the Prez, but we also have no idea how or if maybe this once, he won't! Pres. Marshall is canny, though, and we love him for it |
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I saw this with a number of friends, only one of which had his BS-O-Meter going off, which disappointed me. He found it to be silly and improbable - but do you go to movies to see the paperboy arrive every morning at 6:30 or do you go to see the paperboy eaten by a dinosaur?
Which is a more interesting movie? Terrorism happens all the time in real life and every time you think, my God, how could this happen? It seems unreal. Why should this situation seem real and mundane? They hijacked AFO!!!! |
| An article in Entertainment Weekly detailed the could-have-happeneds and could-not-have-happends from the film and many of the things my friend complained about could have happened, they just haven't happened in real life so far. Other ones were normal Hollywood stretches that made some exciting movie moments - it was great the way information was handled in this screenplay. Some stuff we have no way of knowing if it could happen or not thanks to the classified nature of the most bad-ass flying fortress in the world. |
| If you don't know the premise, the president and a pile of other people are taken hostage on board Air Force One, the top of the top of security and protectiveness in the world. It's the most classified flying document in the world too, so it was difficult for the production team to know what was REALLY possible and what was not...as one of the producers said, you can't just call up the Secret Service and say, "If I were a terrorist trying to hijack Air Force One, how would I go about it?" |
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| Harrison Ford IS the President of the United States, trumpet the print ads, and he really is - he is a mite altruistic for a president who would be elected in this day and age, but by gum, you believe him. Bill Clinton understandably LOVES this flick - I know I would dig a movie about someone with my job kicking some serious butt in the name of what's right and to protect my family. |
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Lots of great tension, groovy visual effects, and Gary Oldman's surprisingly human bad guy. You *know* he's the bad guy the moment he walks on screen, and you might wonder that the Secret Service men don't think, man, he looks like trouble, but he is both more evil and less evil than we would expect from a summer action blockbuster. |
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Non-action movie fans will enjoy it, patriots will enjoy it, and Harrison Ford fans will enjoy it. It's fun and exciting and ohmygod ohnonono! Go see it and much down - I believe this guy will get re-elected! Get your full price tickets and board Air Force One!
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