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90
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Critic Score

52
Critics' score based on 22 reviews.
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Hang on to your seatbelts. Non-stop action.

July 24, 2009
Parkway 68
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Preposterous, predictable, but excessively entertaining, this frenzied thriller draws both story and characters from such action classics as "The Fugitive," "Die Hard," "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Silence of the Lambs."Full Review

Rita Kempley
Washington Post

Con Air, a summer blast of a movie, teaches us many things: Producer Jerry Bruckheimer never met an explosion, a car crash or 20 tough guys talking trash he didn't like. Nicolas Cage is one of our most enjoyable screen heroes. As long as you're funny, you can literally get away with murder in a movie.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

This is a movie that knows it is absurd, and does little to deny it.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-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.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

Apart from not knowing to quit while it's ahead, Con Air provides quite an exciting flight prior to its crash and burn.Full Review

Todd McCarthy
Variety
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