Con Air

1997 · directed by Simon West

Rating

63/100

Hit

no

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.

Con Air (1997), directed by Simon West, rates 63/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Nicolas Cage
• John Cusack
• John Malkovich
• Ving Rhames
• Mykelti Williamson
• Dave Chappelle
• Colm Meaney
• Monica Potter
• Landry Allbright
• Rachel Ticotin

Crew

• David Tattersall — Director of Photography
• Chris Lebenzon — Editor
• Glen Scantlebury — Editor
• Steve Mirkovich — Editor
• Mark Mancina — Original Music Composer
• Trevor Rabin — Original Music Composer
• Scott Rosenberg — Screenplay

More from Simon West

1. The Expendables 2 (2012) — 63/100
2. The Mechanic (2011) — 60/100
3. Skyfire (2019) — 57/100
4. The General's Daughter (1999) — 52/100
5. Wild Card (2015) — 48/100
6. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) — 46/100

How these numbers work: Methodology