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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★ 7

  How often do you think Obama turns to someone on Air Force One and says "Get off my plane!" like Harrison Ford? Six, seven times a day?

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½

  It's hard to overstate just how exciting and also how terrifically absurd this is; a total parody of itself. You can cringe a bit at the endless lives expended to support a dubious foreign policy decision (though it's presented as a human rights one, ok, fine) and by extension the legacy of this politician, but whatever who cares get off my plane, this is one of the great exactly-what-it-says-on-the-box movies.

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★½ 2

  The single most neoconservative movie of the nineties. Renders the vision and philosophy of what would become the George W Bush administration in brilliant Wolfgang Peterson/Michael Balhaus style. Here we have the president commit to using American military power to confront any evil state or group in the world at any time for any reason and shortly thereafter actually becomes John McClane when "neo-communist" terrorists take his plane and family hostage. It goes without saying that President Marshall, by selfishly choosing at every turn to be a hero and remain in a hostage situation to "save his family", by not getting in the escape pod, and routinely placing his own life in the hands of terrorists, greatly harms the United…

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  Review by Sean Fennessey ★★★½ 3

  In this film, CNN interrupts regularly scheduled programming to announce that there are “unconfirmed reports that Air Force One has crashed.” In other words, someone told someone else—erroneously—that the President’s plane crashed and CNN producers thought, “We gotta say this live on the air ASAP without confirming.” This is one of the most unrealistic thrillers of the ‘90s, but for some reason that part bothered me the most.

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  Review by KYK ★★★½ 1

  i used to carry this vhs around in 1st/2nd grade (??) cuz it was my favorite movie lol ?? can’t believe i used to stan a president

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  Review by Jizzmonkey ★★ 1

  I love true stories.

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  Review by Brendan Michaels ★★★★ 2

  This is my friend Judd's favorite movie and for my birthday he bought me this. So today we decided to watch it. I can confirm that James Marshall is a way better president than Donald Trump.

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  Review by Will Sloan

  Somehow I had never seen this before. As you know, it's a rigorously, even proudly formulaic movie that follows most of the beats of the Die Hard template very closely, except for its surprising refusal to give the John McClane surrogate a character arc. From beginning to end, President Harrison Ford is the greatest man to ever live. The movie opens with him being feted at an official Russian state dinner after he's quashed a neo-Communist dictator in Kazakhstan, but instead of patting himself on the back, he chastises himself (and America) for not consistently living up to its moral obligation for humanitarian intervention. This guy is so principled that even when he's taking a W he can't appreciate it…

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  Review by christian d ★★★½

  The best American propaganda film I have ever seen (with Olympus Has Fallen being a close second). President Harrison Ford tells Russian terrorist Gary Oldman to "GET OFF MY PLANE!". America, fuck yeah!!!

  🇺🇸💥🦅🛩🪂🔫🔐

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  Review by Calum Marsh ★★

  Watched this at a cabin with some friends and a friend’s elderly mom, who spent the entire duration of the movie on the far side of the living room in a reclining chair doing a paint-by-numbers colouring book on her iPad, seemingly not paying any attention whatsoever, until the EXACT MOMENT when Harrison Ford is about to tell Gary Oldman “get off my plane,” when she suddenly shot up, slammed down her iPad, and yelled “HERE COMES THE LINE!” Who could deny that level of cultural endurance?

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★ 2

  a completely ludicrous, conservative fantasy premise that's more under siege than die hard (and doesn't have much of anything going on under the hood beyond reasserting Principled American Strength on the global stage) that is nonetheless sturdily realized by petersen who got his career started visually navigating a claustrophobic piece of transportation and regular scorsese cinematographer ballhaus whose scope tracking shots make a meal out of the cat-and-mouse geography and suspense-action sequencing of the president getting into various gunfights and hand-to-hand combat situations in order take control back of HIS big, beautiful PLANE. great squibs, first-rate star power casting, donald trump was 100% right when he said "harrison ford on the plane... he stood up for america." this still makes me laugh.

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  Review by Lagerlout ★★★

  Remember a simpler time? A time when characters could say things like, "Nobody does this to the United States. The President will get his baseball glove back and play catch with this guy's balls!"

  Those were the days, when USA was number one and woe to all those who dared to cross her mighty strength.

  Perhaps my second favourite line is "I'm counting on you, red, white and blue."
  Yes, but of course. When dealing with a crisis situation involving complex aircraft mechanics the best thing to do is to true in the colour of the flags. Because terrorists never win when blind patriotism is on hand.

  Simpler times, simpler films. Not the worst and not the best. But certainly unintentionally hilarious at times.