Harrison Ford was the only thing that made this stunningly typical action movie(Think of it as Passenger 57 if that passenger were the president) worth watching. It was just barely believable but Ford gets you kind of involved as a man who puts saving the people he loves before any high ideas about saving the office of the presidency. Gary Oldman's character also brings up good points when he calls the President(Clinton, Bush, and especially Reagan, listen up) the biggest terrorist of the world, one who hides behind speeches about freedom and humanitarianism before he bombs and starves people to death on a mass scale.
The premise was laughable, though. The terrorists can manage to hijack the most highly protected vessel in the world but cant seem to get rid of a middle aged man hiding in the pantry who's killing them one by one. And a handful of mall cops could have done a better job of protecting the plane than the Secret Service did in the movie, with or without a traitor in their midst. The traitor's motivations didn't seem too clear, either. He was just a distraction throughout the movie.
This is not groundbreaking or special but an OK action movie if you're really really in the mood for one.
The premise was laughable, though. The terrorists can manage to hijack the most highly protected vessel in the world but cant seem to get rid of a middle aged man hiding in the pantry who's killing them one by one. And a handful of mall cops could have done a better job of protecting the plane than the Secret Service did in the movie, with or without a traitor in their midst. The traitor's motivations didn't seem too clear, either. He was just a distraction throughout the movie.
This is not groundbreaking or special but an OK action movie if you're really really in the mood for one.