Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

adonis98-743-186503 Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he - an ex-soldier - works from hiding to defeat them. Air Force One has one of the greatest castings for a President that i have ever seen in my life Harrison Ford completely nailed it also Gary Oldman is always great in whatever he is int and in this film he is no exception. Also that iconic line? "GET OFF MY PLANE" it's just hilarious in a really great way. The action is great, the suspense during the ending where they try to land the plane hits the floor and as for flaws? Well there's one particular scene where the plane gets crashed and it looked so fake almost like a bad video-game cut scene but other than that this is a spectacular action film and sh*t hits the roof in every scene.

blanche-2 Just imagine if we had Harrison Ford as President. You can't beat him as a fantasy holder of the highest office in the land."Air Force One" from 1997 is like many special effects films - it's preposterous. I for one, could not have cared less. It was so exciting, so suspenseful, so tension-filled that I couldn't stop watching. It's also strangely prescient of 9/11; we just had the fifteenth anniversary of that yesterday, and it was sad and horrible.The film begins with an American Special Forces unit capturing General Ivan Radek (Jurgen Prochnow), the dictator of Kazakhstan, being captured by the American Special Forces. His regime was bloody, and he was rumored to be stockpiling nuclear weapons. The capture was due to the joint effort of the President and President Petrov of Russia. A short time later, Marshall and his family (Wendy Crewson and Liesel Matthews) travel to Russia, where Marshall is honored for his help. Marshall takes the opportunity to break from his prepared speech, stating that the world has been too slow to act against terrorism, and says that the U.S. is beginning a "zero tolerance" policy against it. The film begins with an American Special Forces unit capturing General Ivan Radek (Jurgen Prochnow), the dictator of Kazakhstan. Radek's regime had caused an enormous amount of bloodshed for Kazakhstan, and there was word that his stockpiling of nuclear weapons would have plunged the world into a second cold war. His capture was made through the joint cooperation of President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), and Russian President Petrov (Alan Woolf).The Marshall's return to Air Force One, which will take them back to D.C. Meanwhile, a mole, Gibbs (Xander Berkeley) is allowing supporters of Radek on the plane, disguised as journalists. The terrorists help themselves to guns used by the Secret Service and hijack the plane. Their terms? The main man, Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman) wants the the release Radek from prison or one hostage will be killed every half hour.The Secret Service has managed to get the President into a pod and release it from the plane. But the President didn't leave. From the downstairs area, he makes trouble for the hostages, who believe that it's a Secret Service man. The President, a former soldier, has plenty of tricks up his sleeve.Thrilling movie with great effects. Glenn Close plays the Vice President, and Bill Macy is part of the President's team. For some trivia, the little girl who plays the daughter, Liesel Matthews, is the Hyatt Hotel heiress and worth about $500 million today. I don't understand the point of watching a film like this and then itemizing all the unrealistic things about it. Movies like this are never realistic, so why not just enjoy them? And fantasize about tough, brave, loyal Harrison Ford as President James Marshall running the country.

orourkec-292-269155 Air Force One is not a good film. It is just an alright film. The things that were not good about Air Force One is that the special effects looked horrible, unconvincing, unbelievable and looked like they did not even belong to the picture in the first place. I felt sick looking at them. The movie also lacked in breathlessness and in being spectacular and had a poor filmmaking quality feel to it. However, the movie was arguably redeemed by impressive performances from Ford, Oldman and Close, a strong emotional side to it and a flawless, sharp direction from Wolfgang Petersen. Moreover, Gary Oldman was an attractive and cold villain and by his behavior and actions managed to make me feel cold and feel hatred toward him. Well done on all of that. My rating: 6.2/10

bowmanblue Harrison Ford plays... well, basically Harrison Ford, only he's President of America. And that's pretty believable. He's at his most charming all the way through the film – basically Han Solo crossed with Indiana Jones. It doesn't take much imagination to see how easily he was 'elected' into the White House. But of course the cons of being the most powerful man in the world means that people like Gary Oldman will try and slip on board your plane, take your family hostage and threaten to murder them unless he gets what he wants. In this case... some rogue dictator general needs freeing from prison, but that's by the by. All that matters is that President Ford (no, that's not his name, but I can't remember what it was) is on the loose aboard the presidential plane, Air Force One, and not too happy about the unwanted guests.When I first went to see Air Force One in the cinema, the film 'Die Hard' was at the back of my mind. In Die Hard, Bruce Willis had an entire skyscraper to hide in while he picked off the terrorists one by one. I did wonder whether a film about a man trying to hide in a plane (even Air Force One) would actually be believable. I was wrong. Don't think that just because the action centres on one (slightly smaller) location that it isn't brilliantly tense.It's an action film, so if you're into your tense stand-offs and shooting bad-guys, you should love this. There are plenty of decent enough characters, but it's Harrison Ford who carries the film on his own. Like I say, he's at his most charming and you can't help but root for him. And it's worth mentioning Gary Oldman, who, whereas Ford is at his most charming, Oldman revels in his evil-doings. There's no mistaking 'good' and 'bad' in this film.It's nearly two hours long, but it doesn't seem that way. Just like its simple setting, it has an equally simple plot and you don't really need to use too much brainpower to understand anything. But then that's its major selling point – it doesn't try to be anything other than a rocking action film. And, based on that, it succeeds.And, when Barrack Obama steps down, I really think Harrison Ford should take up the mantle.