Just do it. You will not regret the next 2 hours of your life. Watch it with your kids, your parents, your cat. All will enjoy the wind blowing through N. Cage’s hair while he’s speaking in the best southern(?) accent you’ve ever heard. This movie is a champion at life.

The cast alone on this classic makes it worth watching - John Cusack and Nicolas Cage versus a bunch of ripped cons like Danny Trejo, with the addition of the cunning John Malkovich and the ever-talented (and completely unsettling here) Steve Buscemi.

Explosions? Check.
Dubious plot that should never, ever, happen? Check.
Ridiculously bad accent by Cage? Check, drawled out into multiple syllables.

It's entirely chock full of 90's ridiculousness, and totally worth an evening with popcorn and somewhere between enjoying and mocking the insanity.

Great movie! It doesn't get much better than Nicolas Cage as Cameron Poe representing the good guys. Feel good flick

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This is a great action movie. Just a touch of drama added to the mix, mildly interesting characters too if you're willing to indulge your inner immaturity a little bit. Watching this brings me back to when I was a teenager.

This is a true ride! I love it. I can not count how many times I have seen it but it is crude, violent, and filled with criminals and has plenty of curse words. However it is so great because of super hero Poe. A man unjustly incarcerated because he killed a man who was after his wife. The viewer will see how unjust that was as it was obviously self-defense. On the day he is transported from prison following his release, he finds himself in loony toon flight as a band of criminals take over the transport plane. What follows is one scene after another of hilarious dog eat dog mentality. The story unwinds and evolves filled with wild action and fighting scenes. This Christian gal loves this story because the good guys win in the end and the movie has one of her favorite songs in it. I also love Steve Buscemi, Nicolas Cage and a host of other great actors. This movie is great. I really enjoy seeing these funny parts and less, so the more aggressive parts but everything has a purpose. Monica Potter is in it and a adorable daughter, some pink puffy desserts and a bunny! "Put the bunny down", is one of my favorite lines and my husband and I use it from time to time to get a great laugh. This movie is for die hard fans who love action, fighting and adventure movies but with a heart. I recommend but not for the kiddies. Very gory, violent and a potential rape scene. Aside from all that is a super hero without a cape we can all appreciate. Enjoy and close your eyes and watch after the kiddos go to bed! :)

I do have this film on Standard Def but this will not necessarily be a side by side comparison. Never the less, I have seen the film often enough to recall the SD quality. Enough has been said about the plot, acting, cast and other summaries so I will simply focus on the quality of the actual transfer to Blu Ray.

VIDEO...
This is definitely an older, albeit no less exciting, popcorn movie but doesn't really look like one. The film has legs, and even more important, the quality of the transfer from Standard Def to Blu Ray leaves little to be desired. Despite the relatively low Mbps rate which averaged in the low 20's, there is no appreciable grain to crawl and annoy you. The contrast throughout the film really was excellent and it brought along with it natural and true to life skin tones. Color grading throughout the film tended to be on the soft side as there appeared to be no artificial popping of colors. At no time did I see any artifacts or aliasing in the film and no stair stepping either in the wide angle shots. The video resolution rates a full 5 stars.

AUDIO...
Using an uncompressed PCM 5.1 codec, as this film does, will always produce a more transparent audio field. While your LFE channel gets and excellent workout with realistic bass tones, your surrounds are not left out either. There is plenty of front to rear, rear to front panning which places you in the middle of the action. However, despite the directional use of the front and rear audio stages, the actual audio mix could have been improved as it frequently sounded to my ears as a mash up of all the audio channels rather than discreet one surround foley fx from speaker panning to speaker. Unfortunately, audio often gets the short stick in the editing suite and the same issue was there for the Standard Definition version. That said, it is still an improvement over the previous lossy audio found on the SD DVDs.

Extras..
The same extras that were included on the SD DVD as well as a couple more that were just ok. Far too many previews of other films make you pay for advertisements rather than donating that disc space to an improved video transfer with a higher Mbps rate and thus even greater video and audio improvement. Great cast in this film.

All my reviews focus on the quality of the Blu Ray transfer and I do hope this review has been of some help to you in deciding your purchase.
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The movie was shipped fast. I Received it in undamaged condition, and it plays perfectly. Would buy from seller again!