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Steven Seagal goes "skydiving"
The initial premise of the movie is simple enough: Arab terrorists are hijacking a plane. Through an elaborate setup that allowed them to sneak guns and explosives onto the plane, the terrorists take charge of a plane that has a senator on board, and the most incredible flight attendants ever (Halle Berry is one of them), in order to get one of their terrorist brethren released from a prison of some sort.

How will the Americans stop the plot? This is where it gets thick.

A Special Ops team led by Steven Seagal is going to fly on a stealth bomber to dock-up with a 747 where a specially designed sleeve, designed by Oliver Platt, who is some sort of genius in this movie, allows the good guys to surprise the bad guys. Seagal's team is joined by a Middle East expert of some kind, Kurt Douglas, whose knowledge in these affairs is essential to the mission for whatever reason.

The movie gives a quick shock to the viewers when, upon entry, the Special Ops team encounters some turbulence. The guy who's supposed to defuse the bomb gets paralyzed, and the best surprise of all, Seagal dies. Yes, it's a major disappointment in some ways because I wanted to see some arms get broken unnecessarily, but it helps the movie along in much more important way: the viewer doesn't have to suffer through Seagal's unbearable acting. Additionally, it's hilarious because he gets chucked from a plane at 30,000 feet.

What ensues is a race to move around the airplane without detection, defusing bombs and disarming terrorists. Will they succeed? Will they accomplish their goals before the President gives authorization to blow the plane filled with nerve agent out of the sky?

It's an exciting enough movie with talented actors, tension, drama, and a mostly believable plot-line. I enjoyed it and I recommend it as a late-night action fix.

A haunting omen to the NYC disaster.
My attention was fixed to the TV like never before the first time I saw this come on cable. We need more films that can generate suspense as well as this did. But did they really have to have Kurt Russell's character get his foot stuck in that..."thing on the wall" near the end of the film? I think the movie producers could have come up with a better (and more believable) way to hinder him for the situation he was in. There goes the 5th star.
But, holy cow, did any movie foretell 9/11 better than this one? Airline security employees should have been made to watch this; maybe at least some of them would have believed an event like 9/11 was more probable and taken their job more seriously, preventing the disaster.

Steven Seagal's BEST screen appearance ever
A reasonably good action adventure, but of course it's standard formula makes it easy to predict. The production values are above average, so no cheesy special effects - it is well made, so if all you're looking for is good entertainment, without having to follow any complex plot twists, then this would be a good choice. The ONE feature that does make this movie stand out from all others is the early demise of Steven Seagal, that in itself, makes the movie worth watching. I do apologize to all the Steven Seagal fans who may be reading this, but if you are like me, and think that Mr Seagal takes himself MUCH too seriously, then the scene where he "buys the farm" is good for a laugh or two, maybe even a "yeah!!!!"

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