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Overview

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6.3/10   17,257 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Jim Thomas (written by) &
John Thomas (written by)
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Release Date:
15 March 1996 (USA) more
Tagline:
Fasten your seat belts more
Plot:
When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
The movie that you will never see as long as you're flying.. more (122 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kurt Russell ... Dr. David Grant

Steven Seagal ... Lt. Colonel Austin Travis

Halle Berry ... Jean, Flight Attendant

John Leguizamo ... Captain Rat

Oliver Platt ... Dennis Cahill
Joe Morton ... Sergeant 'Cappy' Matheny
B.D. Wong ... Sergeant Louie

Len Cariou ... Secretary of Defense Charles White

Whip Hubley ... Sergeant Baker
Andreas Katsulas ... El Sayed Jaffa
Mary Ellen Trainor ... Allison, Flight Attendant

Marla Maples ... Nancy, Flight Attendant (as Marla Maples Trump)

J.T. Walsh ... Senator Mavros
Ingo Neuhaus ... Doc
William James Jones ... Catman
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence and brief language.
Runtime:
134 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Don Burgess reportedly stepped in as cinematographer when producer Joel Silver thought Alex Thomson was working too slowly. more
Goofs:
Continuity: If it's sunset in some part of Europe it should be early afternoon in Washington, but we now see a clock labeled "WASHINGTON, DC" and showing 6:38. This is followed by a scene at Andrews Air Force Base where the short shadows are correct for early afternoon. All the action described so far in relation to the hijacking is supposed to occur within a couple of hours. more
Quotes:
Nagi Hassan: That was a very brave thing to do. And totally unnecessary. more
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Soundtrack:
IT'S NICE TO GO TRAV'LING more

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Is it true that Steven Seagal held up production because he didn't want to film his death scene?
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35 out of 55 people found the following comment useful.
The movie that you will never see as long as you're flying.., 22 November 2003
8/10

The film concerns a transatlantic flight, hi-jacked between Athens and Washington, D.C.

The hijackers are a group of heavily armored suicide fanatical terrorists...

Their motivation is supposedly to free a feared and wanted terrorist, recently handed over to US authorities, arrested, and taken to a warship in the Mediterranean...

The President has two options: to let the passenger fleet proceed to the United States or destroy it before it gets there along with hundreds of passengers...

Steven Seagal is the commando leader who recognizes the threat, but proposes to use a modified Stealth fighter especially designed for mid-air crew transfers, and thus allow his elite anti-terrorist unit to sneak the Boeing 747, localize and eventually disarm the bomb, and overtake the hijackers...

Kurt Russell is the Pentagon intelligence analyst, who believes that the hijacking is just a ruse, that the deadly nerve toxin is on board, and that the terrorists are planning to use it and the airplane as 'a sort of poor man's atomic bomb, to be detonated over Washington..'

Halle Berry is the brave helpful stewardess who understood the message of the striking team... She has to identify for them, the passenger who is in control of the bomb...

David Suchet is the terrorist who can endanger us all! He is Jaffa's deputy director, Nagi Hassan fanatically driven by hatred and violence... This nasty man seizes control of the air carrier and plans to kill everyone on board...

Oliver Platt is the aerospace engineer, who can isolate the bomb's power sources only if he could control his nerves...

Joe Morton is the bomb disposal expert who guides Platt through the disabling of the bomb...

J. T. Walsh is the ambitious senator who wants to be seen as the savior of the hostages, an image that won't hurt him in the presidential elections...

John Leguizamo (Seagal's second in command..) hopes for a good movie on board...

Thanks to a solid cast and plenty of action and suspense, Stuart Baird's 'Executive Decision' could be a timely reminder to one deceptively simple question: How can we stop hijackers from using planes as weapons?

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