The midair mayhem never lets up in a stunt-filled thriller that's brimming with nasty villains and daring deeds.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2024

An entertaining thrill ride...

| May 3, 2023

Air Force One ultimately isn’t so much “Die Hard on a plane” (Fly Hard?) as much as it’s a Top Gun for grown-ups -- military hardware in the service of a red-white-and-blue chest thumper.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2023

It’s tense and exciting in direction, the scripting is solid so that everything just flows with natural tension-breakers, and the performances are engaging whether as leads or supporting.

| Mar 16, 2023

Predictable and full of the usual terrorist tactics. It's two hours of tense drama and intense brutality.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 10, 2023

[Wolfgang Petersen] turned this sky-high silliness into a top-flight popcorn movie.

| Nov 22, 2022

Imagines a fantasy in which the president can, in fact, be an action hero, and even repel the hijacking of the titular presidential plane (25th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2022

God bless Wolfgang Petersen for mounting such a thrilling, phenomenally stupid-yet-surprisingly deep studio blockbuster at a time where we need way more of that than Spider-Man 7.

| Jun 25, 2022

Air Force One is one of those films stuck in amber that knows exactly what it is and what it's trying to do -- and then does it very well.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 14, 2020

...a wildly over-the-top premise that's employed to entertaining, sporadically enthralling effect by Petersen...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2020

Air Force One holds up almost 25 years later and the film remains one of the greatest presidential action thrillers to grace the big screen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 27, 2020

A capable thriller bearing Wolfgang Petersen's signature flair for suspense.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 9, 2020

This pulsating political actioner should prove cathartic for mainstream viewers who yearn for a decisive, gutsy executive branch of government.

| Jul 26, 2019

Everything about it was unreal, except it did a big box office.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 24, 2016

Well executed action thriller by Das Boot German director Petersen, which is rather weak in plot and characterization.

| Original Score: B | Feb 19, 2013

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

[An] unabashedly jingoistic action extravaganza starring Harrison Ford as...'The Ass-Kicking President'...[Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2009

As the familiar cat-and-mouse plot unfolded, I let myself enjoy the unapologetic masculine thrills.

| Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2007

It's embarrassing to see [Ford] hanging by a thread ... behind his own 747. No image better fits the fragile state of his [career] at this point... he's losing his grip.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Mar 19, 2004