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05/06/1997 Action, Thriller, Crime 1h 56m
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They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.

Overview

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.

  1. Simon West

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Nicolas Cage

    Cameron Poe

  2. John Cusack

    Agent Vince Larkin

  3. John Malkovich

    Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

  4. Ving Rhames

    Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones

  5. Mykelti Williamson

    "Baby-O" O'Dell

  6. Dave Chappelle

    "Pinball" Parker

  7. Colm Meaney

    Agent Duncan Malloy

  8. Monica Potter

    Tricia Poe

  9. Landry Allbright

    Casey Poe

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Reviews

A review by Dark Jedi
Written by Dark Jedi on 2014-08-24
This is one of those movies which are simply good solid entertainment. The fact that I do like Nicolas Cage, even though he is at times really lousy at choosing which movies he participate in, is of course an additional plus.

Naturally I do like the performance of Nicolas Cage in this movie but John Malkowich is also great as the main bad guy and Steve Buscemi is perfect as the nutcase although his role could have been a bit more expanded upon. The rest of the actors are doing nicely as well although it always saddens me to see Colm Meaney playing a dumbass and/or bad guy after his role in ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$75,000,000.00

Revenue
$224,012,234.00

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