Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
- undercover
- ambush
- war veteran
- psychopath
- bravery
- mexican standoff
- sandstorm
- hijacking
- prison guard
- u.s. marshal
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Nicolas Cage
Cameron Poe
John Cusack
Agent Vince Larkin
John Malkovich
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Ving Rhames
Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones
- Mykelti Williamson — "Baby-O" O'Dell
- Dave Chappelle — "Pinball" Parker
- Colm Meaney — Agent Duncan Malloy
- Monica Potter — Tricia Poe
- Landry Allbright — Casey Poe
- Rachel Ticotin — Guard Sally Bishop
- Steve Buscemi — Garland Greene - "The Marietta Mangler"
- Nick Chinlund — William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford
- M.C. Gainey — "Swamp Thing"
- Danny Trejo — "Johnny-23"
- Renoly Santiago — "Sally-Can't Dance"
- Directed
- Simon West
- Written
- Scott Rosenberg
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 4,846 ratings
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
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