Con Air

Con Air1997

Stars: Colm Meaney, Mykelti Williamson, Nick Chinlund, Renoly Santiago
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Rating: R
Runtime: 115 minutes

Con Air is proof that the slick, absurdly overblown action formula of Hollywood mega-producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Crimson Tide) lives on, even after Simpson's druggy death. (Read Charles Fleming's … more »



Garland Greene:
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?

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  • MissPriss
    I'm 74. I'm fine physically but 34+ years in a cubicle didn't exactly prepare me for being my own person after "retirement".
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