The saving grace of Con Air is its sense of its own absurdity. Rosenberg and director Simon West seem to know just how preposterous their story is.

| Feb 28, 2018

It's exhausting rather than exhilarating.

| Jan 5, 2018

Packed high with explosive action and loaded with high-stakes jeopardy, Con Air charts a generally sound narrative course, although it hits some story turbulence before it hits its climactic jackpot.

| Jun 6, 2017

| Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

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.

Full Review | Sep 18, 2008

Very cool, but also very cold.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's silly, but it's also free from pretensions to be anything else.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2001

They're 'the worst of the worst.' So's the movie.

Full Review | May 11, 2001

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.

| Feb 14, 2001

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.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

If you're looking to kill a couple of hours, there are worse fates awaiting you out there.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The movie is essentially a series of quick setups, brisk dialogue and elaborate action sequences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Massaging every demographic, this admittedly fast, funny and robustly acted progeny of The Rock exploits actions of killers and rapists -- then cynically sells family values with a lengthy wrap-up ballad.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

How's the movie? Big, loud, brutal and stupid, that's how it is.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: C | Jun 6, 1997