Con Air 1997

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: All of the principals normally work in films more interesting and human than this one, which gives Con Air a touch of the subversive and turns it into a big-budget lark. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Numbing but not boring, it's finally more dispiriting than exhilarating, like a wild night of debauchery that leaves only a fearsome hangover for a souvenir. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Sitting through this movie is like watching a dog running in circles chasing its tail -- the amusement factor dies quickly as the situation become repetitive. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is essentially a series of quick setups, brisk dialogue and elaborate action sequences. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: How's the movie? Big, loud, brutal and stupid, that's how it is. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: I kept thinking that if their budget were cut in half, they would have made a better picture. If the special effects department were put on a much stricter budget, the show might have had to develop the characters beyond caricature. Read more

Time Out: Very cool, but also very cold. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Rosenberg's sarcastic, tough-guy dialogue is full of lean-and-mean one-liners, and the superbly cast actors know how to milk them for all they're worth. Read more

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