Con Air

1997 116 min Action, Thriller, Crime

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

IMDb 6.9 RT 59 Metacritic 52

budget $75,000,000 earnings $224,012,234 return 3.0x

director Simon West

writer Scott Rosenberg

cast