Chiasmus cult cinema trailers - "Con Air" (1997). *These will be ongoing posts, courtesy of the A.Glass DVD collection. As I offer via Chiasmus Cult trailers, my summarized overviews*

Part of the big "6" Big Budget 1990s Jerry Bruckheimer productions, Con Air, released in 1997 and directed by U.K. born Simon West, which was also his debut directorial picture.  Launching him into the late 90s and early 2000s era of Hollywood action flicks.  Con Air, despite its comic book inspired action, also assisted in heralding in the testosterone fueled blood, guns and explosions with its conservative overhang.  Gone were the 1980s 'Baby Boomer esque' sexual tension and innuendos, Con Air was clearly aimed at a more serious late Teens, early/mid Twenties male Generation Xers.  Matched with over the top acting, by one of the greatest over actors in movie history, Nicholas Cage, playing the movie's hero "Cameron Poe", a honorable discharged Army Ranger, who is at the wrong place and the wrong time premise, ala the "Die Hard" (1986) premise.  Charged with manslaughter defending his wife, spending Eight years in a maximum security facility, gets parole, but then ends up on a U.S. Marshal prisoner transport plane, that is the hijacked by the prisoners, hence the movies title 'Con Air'.  Con Air is very much, via a Bruckheimer movie, a buddy flick, with co-star John Cusack, playing the role of U.S. Marshal "Vince Larkin", who is more of an FBI profiler in his depiction, befriending and assisting Poe (Nicolas Cage) as he tries to single handedly take the plane back from ultra villain "Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom" played by the amazing John Malkovich, whilst juggling a plethora of other heroic feats.   The production is filled to the brim with 90s actors, who all went onto to other bigger productions.  And watch for 'Hannibal Lecter' inspired psychopathic serial killer "Garland Green", played by Steve Buscemi, as one of the 'likeable' prisoners, in a calm resolve gets away at the end of the movie, when the plane crash lands in Las Vegas, later seeing playing dice in a Casino after the crash.  

*Side note, the rustic looking C-123 transport plane used in the production, which were retired in 1997 from widespread commercial use and never used for prisoner transport, actually crashed in 2003 in Alaska, killing three crew members.

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