Boring

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I just did a review about how "Passenger 57" and "Red Eye" are the only decent aeroplane thrillers out there, but now i will add "Executive Decision" to that list. Aeroplane thrillers are very standard and it's always the same plot, but "Executive Decision" changes it up a bit by having the SWAT team be on the bottom part of the plane while having to deal with an active bomb. Kurt Russell does a good job in his role as well as the rest of the cast. The dialogue is okay, but has a lot of blasphemous words, as a Christian this is something that i can't stand about movies, if they have to swear then at least leave Jesus' name out of it."Executive Decision" is the type of movie that only needs to be watched once. It isn't as good as the films i mentioned earlier, but it's watchable.

I saw EXECUTIVE DECISION soon after its first release and remember being disappointed by the experience. I was a teenager back then and hoping for a ton of DIE HARD-on-a-plane style action, which I didn't get; even worse, the film was missold to me as a Steven Seagal movie, and the poor guy gets bumped off half an hour in. I wasn't impressed, and spent the rest of the film sulking.Watching it some twenty years later, time has been kind to this film. It's actually better for NOT being another DIE HARD clone; there's a ton of suspense inherent in the premise of the guys having to hide from the terrorists and stay hidden for much of the running time. Sure, the bomb plot is done to death and Oliver Platt isn't a great actor, but everything else works nicely, particularly the direction which maximises every drop of tension from the narrative. Stuart Baird is best known for his work as an editor but also did U.S. MARSHALS, which I loved as well.To say too much about this film's plot would be to spoil it, but it works nicely. Kurt Russell isn't bad as the hero but is outshone by almost everyone else, apart from the poor Halle Berry. David Suchet's villain is a scary one, but I liked the characters of the special forces team best. Joe Morton does injured very well again after TERMINATOR 2; John Leguizamo supplies attitude and a good tough guy demeanour; B.D. Wong has more screen time than JURASSIC PARK. Even J.T. Walsh is present in a minor role. The action, when it hits, is exciting stuff, and the film is only occasionally cheesy which is a surprise - it was the 1990s, after all.

Arab terrorists hijack a 747 mid-flight after the United States has captured one of their leaders. More terror-in-the-skies hysteria, with the current state of international panic exploited by producer Joel Silver and groomed into rousing "family entertainment". It's really just a big-budget extension of those heavy-handed Golan-Globus movies from the 1980s ("The Delta Force", in particular). The cast is well-equipped to handle the terse situations, with Kurt Russell relatively convincing as an intelligence analyst who comes to the rescue. The only member of the team who doesn't quite jell is a curiously-placed Steven Seagal (playing a commando who is mostly used as a prop). Directing debut from veteran film-editor Stuart Baird, who ought to say a thousand mea culpas after this one, though the film did perform well at the box-office. ** from ****

This is a tremendous movie. Not a big Steven Seagal fan, and I'm glad he isn't the main character in this one. The rest of the cast is excellent. Kurt Russell is great and David Suchet is tremendous, in a most non Hercule Poirot role. Suchet is such a versatile actor, having played Middle Eastern, French, Belgian and English characters in his distinguished career.The movie is a bit long and drags in a few spots, but that just makes it all the more suspenseful. The supporting cast is very good, with Oliver Platt and Joe Morton shining. Much better than Passenger 57. Definitely recommend this movie. Worth watching and re- watching.