Executive Decision

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Shane O Classic 90s popcorn film , action packed good story memorable moments . One that can be watched over and over Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/02/24 Full Review Munkhchimeg T Cinematografie is great. The dark colour matched with the main idea. Cool 😎 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/25/24 Full Review William D This is a really good movie that I would recommend anyone watch. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/27/23 Full Review Zach T Kurt Russel action film is fun enough despite an unoriginal premise. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/04/23 Full Review steve d Surprisingly dull with paper thin characters. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis (Steven Seagal) leads an unsuccessful Special Forces black ops raid on a Chechen mafia safe house in Trieste, Italy, to recover a stolen Soviet nerve agent, DZ-5. Three months later, Oceanic Airlines Flight 343, a Boeing 747-200, leaves Athens bound for Washington, D.C., with over 400 passengers aboard including Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), lieutenant of the imprisoned terrorist leader El Sayed Jaffa. Hassan and his men hijack the flight, demanding Jaffa's release. Meanwhile, just moments before the hijacking, a suicide bomber working for Jaffa destroys a London Marriott hotel restaurant. Dr. David Grant (Kurt Russell), the U.S. Army intelligence consultant behind the botched raid, is summoned to a meeting at the Pentagon to plan an operation to retake the plane. Grant doubts Hassan's demands, suspecting he engineered Jaffa's capture, and intends to use the 747 to detonate a bomb loaded with the DZ-5 in U.S. airspace. The Pentagon authorizes a mid-air insertion of Travis' special operations team onto the hijacked airliner using the experimental "Remora F117x" aircraft. Grant and DARPA engineer Dennis Cahill (Oliver Platt) reluctantly join the mission. The Remora intercepts and docks with the airliner. Grant, Cahill, and team members Cappy, Baker, Louie and Rat successfully board but Cappy is injured after a fall. Severe turbulence strains the docking tunnel. Travis sacrifices himself by closing the 747's hatch before it decompresses. The Remora is destroyed along with the team's communications equipment, leaving the Pentagon unaware of their survival. They conduct a covert search for the bomb, hoping to neutralize it and storm the cabin. Grant accidentally reveals who he is to flight attendant Jean (Halle Berry), but successfully recruits her to assist their search, despite Hassan's suspicions. The team locates the bomb and Cappy, despite his injuries, guides Cahill in disarming it until they discover its arming device has an additional, remote-controlled trigger. Jaffa, released by U.S officials in an attempt to resolve the situation, calls Hassan from a private jet to tell him he is on his way to Algeria, but Hassan abruptly ends the call. Grant and the others realize Hassan's men are unaware of the bomb and Hassan's true intentions, after he kills one of them for rebuking him. He also inadvertently reveals that one of the passengers is a sleeper agent and the trigger-man for the bomb... Rotten Tomatoes consensus states: "Executive Decision adheres entertainingly to classic action thriller formula, proving a genre outing doesn't need to win points for originality to be solidly effective." Leonard Maltin called it "a tense, inventive thriller" which needed more editing. Leonard Klady of Variety wrote, "The picture's logic may be a bit fast and loose, but its action-and-excitement quotient is top-notch." Roger Ebert rated it 3 out of 4 stars, calling it "a gloriously goofy mess of a movie" with several plot holes (e.g. smuggling a toxin into the country would likely be easier and just as effective as hijacking). Ebert praised the first-act plot twist of killing off the character played by Seagal, then a major Hollywood star: "I perked right up". "Executive Decision" has a classic American flagwaving storyline that wasn´t new then and is certainly not new now with middle eastern terrorists and America saving the day in the end, but it also came out before the horrific 9/11 disaster which makes you feel partly effected by the film when re-watching it in 2022. Kurt Russel´s character Dr. David Grant is a bit over the top to be honest (flying a massive jetplane is I reckon not the same as a small one engine plane..) and the film has a very generic setup. The always lovely Halle Berry get´s hardly anything to work with. The action and acting is what you would expect from this sort of film as well. Interesting though is that Steven Seagal´s character Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis dies early on in the film. But, he dies as a hero of course.. "Executive Decision" is a blip on the action radar in my book. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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