Air Force One

USA, 1997. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell.

I calculated that Harrison Ford must have been in his mid fifties when he made this film, which made some of his action-man heroics displayed here pretty hard to believe. But then, Wolfgang Petersen's film isn't the sort of movie which is built for analysing its reality or logic. It's a reasonably well made thriller, a plane hostage drama with seasoned ingredients one has seen many times before - there's nothing really new here. Gary Oldman comes on board to demonstrate how well we Brits can play ze ruthless killerz with ze frightening accent and Glenn Close pleases in a role which doesn't offer her much to work with. The "Get off my plane" line is a (literal) killer though, and made me laugh out loud.