Everyone has a favorite Nicolas Cage role.
Don't lie, you know you do.
And no list of 100 Greatest Movies can truly be complete without an appearance by Nicolas Cage. Amazingly, this will not be Mr. Cage's only appearance on the countdown.
You've been warned!
Today, I proudly present you with Nicolas Cage's greatest movie: Con Air!
I can feel the eyes rolling from here, but this movie is all kinds of awesome, wrapped in greatness, and deep-fried in outstanding.
It probably shouldn't be, but it is.
It's Die Hard...on a plane! Mostly.
It's Nicolas Cage, with his best Elvis Impression since Honeymoon in Vegas as a convicted Army Ranger (in one of the most bogus travesties of justice ever committed on screen...) who finally gets out of jail and simply wants to go home and see his wife, and the little girl who was born while he was in prison.
Naturally, the most effective way to get our hero home:
Fly on a planeload of felons being transferred to another prison facility.
What could possibly go wrong?
Everything.
And then some!
Your gang of villains is headed up by the always enjoyable John Malkovich. He chews the scenery as usual, and that is a good thing. Ving Rhames provides the muscle. Then you bring in the always effective, uber-creepy Steve Buscemi...
Who steals the whole movie right out from under everyone.
Then you have your cop on the ground (see, I told you, Die Hard on a Plane!) where John Cusack (!!) attempts to stop that plane... by himself.
That's right, John Cusack went action star on you, right before your eyes.
The DVD should come with a side order of bacon and s'mores, that's how awesome it is.
I can't begin to tell you the number of times I've watched this one. But it's a lot.
And I've loved every viewing of it.
Simon West should have stopped directing after this, his first feature. We'll see how he does at the helm of Expendables 2.
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