Tipped as a starry hot property upon its release in 1996, this aviation thriller unfortunately proves to be weighed down by some serious excess baggage.

| May 22, 2024

For moviegoers, the nerve gas might be no more irritating than the film's preposterous plotting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2022

Takes itself very seriously and, though filled with action movie tropes, never becomes a joke.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Executive Decision is indeed fun to watch if you like bang-bang thrillers. It's nowhere near as inventive and mad as John Woo's recent Broken Arrow, and it rather pointedly. But it has just enough of its own personality.

| Jan 30, 2019

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

A smart, adult thriller...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 13, 2011

It finally gives us what Hollywood has been threatening for years, the movie nobody was waiting for: "Airport '96."

| Original Score: D | Jul 30, 2007

A nerve-racking thriller that's more topical today than it was in 1996.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2005

Take a late-blooming action star and an action hero whose career is in a downslide, and you get an action film seriously lacking in... action.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 22, 2004

Laughably, inexcusably, abjectly awful. How can I even count the ways?

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003

Satisfying junk food.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Seagal's best movie - due largely in part to the fact that he's barely in it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2003

Although the formula may be old, it is expertly handled.

| Original Score: B | Mar 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 12, 2003

A dishearteningly jingoistic thriller, saved by sharp action scenes and a few decent surprises.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2003

Russell plays this role very well, relying more on his intellectual image than muscles in the same manner as his character who uses more brain and less physical power to achieve his task.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2002