Title: Con-Air (1997)
Genre: action
Directed by: Simon West
Written by: Scott Rosenberg
Actors: Colm Meaney, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Dave Chappelle
aStore: DVD
I would just like to state for the record that the best thing about the movie “Con-Air” was Steve Buscemi.
There was just something so enthralling about his creepy serial killer cannibal guy character (he did eat people, didn’t he? He totally seemed like he did on the creep meter). I just couldn’t look away whenever he appeared onscreen.
So there’s like Nicolas Cage running around trying to help John Cusack’s cop-guy character and John Malkovich is the bad ass guy they’re trying to stop. There’s all of these convicts running around on a hijacked prison plane, then stuff about taking over an airport – it’s been a long time for me – and there’s lots of explosions and car chases and some people end up dead.
“Con-Air” is just an action popcorn flick of no real importance to the world at large. All I can remember is that it was fun to watch and Nic Cage had longish hair and I think Monica Potter was in it as the pretty young wife.
But Steve Buscemi totally stuck out. And that’s something he’s always done for me.
“Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “Charlotte’s Web,” “The Sopranos,” “Big Daddy,” “The Adventures of Pete and Pete,” “Monsters Inc,” the list goes on and on. And in every single one of the movies or television shows Steve Buscemi has appeared in, he has always done a most excellent job.
He is a real icon.
Which is why, whenever I think of “Con-Air,” it’s not John Cusack or Nicolas Cage I think of. It’s Steve Buscemi in that white jump suit sitting down with that little girl at the end, a scene more than a tad reminiscent of Frankenstein’s monster.
