AIR FORCE ONE
Language - English
(United States)
Genre - Action,
Thriller
Director - Wolfgang
Petersen
*ing - Harrison
Ford (James Marshall), Gary Oldman (Egor Korshunov)
IMDB Score - 6.5/10
PLOT
Ivan Radek, the
dictator of Kazakhstan, was captured with the joint military operation of both
US and Russia. After three weeks in a dinner at Moscow, American president
James Marshall revealed his countries new “zero tolerance” policy against terrorism
and dictatorship. On their way to home, terrorists take over Air Force One, the
presidential carrier and takes the passengers hostages with an aim to release
Radek. The terrorists threaten to execute one at each half hour until their
demands are met, however with little time, the presidents who was a former
Medal of Honor winner must attempt himself to retake the plane and to rescue
everybody.
Air Force One is the aircraft
that have US president on board (theoretically any aircraft that carries US
president may be termed as Navy One, Marine One, according to their defense
force, since Airforce manages it gets the name Air Force One), and it is one of
the most protected aircraft in the world. What will happen if this is Hijacked?
This Wolfgang Peterson movie deals with such a situation. There is nothing to
mention as far as acting is concerned, because we have two great actors on
screen. James Marshal always remained as a president who upholds American patriotism
and love for family at the same time. This character had impressed many people
at its time of release, Ford’s character is the best President portrayal in
Hollywood. Many US presidents had mentioned Ford’s character during their
tenure. But I am impressed with Gary Oldman than the Ford’s character. Egor may
be one of the underrated villain characters in Hollywood. Usually American
movies portrays Russians as a well built giant figures, but Egor doesn’t have
huge bodies like those Russians, but the viewers will not feel this because of
his fine performance. He has all the violence, cruelty, and crookedness of a
terrorists. His chilling performance earned him the name ‘Scary Gary’ during
production. I didn’t impress with the background of movie, but still its very
popular among American people. Donald Trump uses its soundtrack when he was
elected as American president. It has some poor VFX scenes and graphics, but at
the same time its really thrilling and an engaging movie.
“Air Force One” was
blockbuster during its time of release, it generated more than $300million against
a mere budget of $85million. We must keep in mind the political background of
the movie while watching it, because it was released before 9/11 attack and before
Iraq invasion. Petersen has said that, after 9/11, he wouldn't have felt
comfortable making a movie about terrorists attacking America by hijacking
jetliner, he believes that it would face a ban and will become a Box office
disaster, if released after 9/11. Most of the plane’s features in film didn’t exists
in the movie at that time like parachutes and escape pods, overall, it’s a very
good movie for viewers.
Movie Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCFaA4A8TI
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