Con Air: Critic Reviews

79%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

56%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

All of the principals normally work in films more interesting and human than this one, which gives Con Air a touch of the subversive and turns it into a big-budget lark.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

The movie is essentially a series of quick setups, brisk dialogue and elaborate action sequences.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Rosenberg's sarcastic, tough-guy dialogue is full of lean-and-mean one-liners, and the superbly cast actors know how to milk them for all they're worth.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Charles Taylor Salon.com (Top Critic)

How's the movie? Big, loud, brutal and stupid, that's how it is.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

Sitting through this movie is like watching a dog running in circles chasing its tail -- the amusement factor dies quickly as the situation become repetitive.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

They're 'the worst of the worst.' So's the movie.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

Numbing but not boring, it's finally more dispiriting than exhilarating, like a wild night of debauchery that leaves only a fearsome hangover for a souvenir.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Heather Boerner Common Sense Media

40

A schmaltzy action-adventure at 8,000 feet.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Rumsey Taylor Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Resolutely not boring.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Film4

This frankly silly action movie scores major points for bordering on self-parody.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide

63

Mega-budget action extravaganzas don't get much sillier than this.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Time Out

Very cool, but also very cold.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

70

the quintessential high-octane action flick
Full Review » 6 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

70

Rude, crude, mindless action and nonstop gratuitous violence just don't get any better.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com

70

It's not exactly a spoof of action flicks, but everyone involved clearly has tongue wedged firmly within cheek.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

76

Bruckheimer may be the only producer working in Hollywood today who deserves the auteur treatment.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star

100

Director Simon West pulls off the impossible task of having the film make constant fun of itself and its viewers while keeping the storyline grounded enough for emotional payoffs.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ron Wells Film Threat

60

This is a big, silly film. Is it full of explosions and one-liners? Of course. Is it entertaining? Of course.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

75

The Hollywood ending hurts the film's integrity, diminishing what could easily have become a classic of the genre.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

80

With West's confident competence, and Bruckheimer's reliable slickness, Con Air gets out of its own way and becomes a trash classic.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

20

Jerry Bruckheimer should be thankful for the modern audience's short attention span.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Eugene Novikov Film Blather

42

I don't know how it happened, or what Simon West was thinking, but the first half of Con Air is brilliant and the second half is a non-stop climax, and a dimwitted one at that.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly

88

Cage carries the first action flick of the year that's worthy of topping the box-office charts.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

50

Has a strange air of nonchalant wackiness about it that makes it hard not to like.
Full Review » 9 years ago
James Rocchi Netflix

20

It's slapped together childishly and has no real foundation to render it even vaguely capable of withstanding a lapping wave of intellect or logic.
Full Review » 10 years ago