Alabaman Cameron Poe, played by Nicolas Cage, gets home from being discharged from the US Army Rangers to have a dance with his pregnant wife. His wife works in a bar in Mobile, AL, and gets hit on by a "regular" and insults him and the Rangers. Poe tells the guy he wants to dance with his wife. At the end of the evening the guy and a couple of friends approach the Poes in the parking lot. Poe defends his wife's honor and his life, a knife was pulled, beating up 2 of them and accidently killing the other. Cameron is advised to plead guilty for involuntary manslaughter, and is sent to jail for a minimum of 7 years. That's the first 10 minutes of the movie.
Poe keeps himself fit, and he stays out of trouble. He stays in his cell during a prison riot. He learns Spanish and writes and reads letters and pictures from home, just waiting to be paroled. He does get paroled on the day of Casey's, his daughter, 7th birthday, whom has yet to meet him.
Poe then has the dishonor of hitching a special flight of the US Marshalls, carrying the worst of the worst criminals in the nation, home. Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom, played by John Malkovich, leads these criminals after the plane is hijacked creating, "Con Air." And so the adventure begins. Other convicts include Billy Bedlam, played by Nick Chinlund, bomber Diamond Dog, played by Ving Rhames, and mass murderer Garland Greene, played by Steve Buscemi (Armageddon).
What makes matters worse is that Duncan Malloy, played by Colm Meaney (Star Trek Deep Space Nine), of the DEA has put an armed undercover agent on the plane. Vince Larkin, played by John Cusack, is the person from the US Marshalls in charge. Malloy wants to shoot them down, and Larkin just wants to find them.
This is a film packed with action. There are helicopters, planes, an emergency landing and misdirection. The characters are great as well as the comments from Garland Greene. The song "How Do I Live" is a keeper.
If you like this you will like another good vs. evil action movie of Nicholas Cage, Face-Off.
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