Storyline
Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold his principles - and the integrity of the nation.
Directors
Cast
Alex Veadov, Philip Baker Hall, Gary Oldman, William H. Macy, Elya Baskin, Harrison Ford, Brian Libby, Ilia Volok, Donna Bullock, Don McManus, Glenn Morshower, Tom Everett, Bill Smitrovich, Xander Berkeley, Wendy Crewson, Давид Вадим, Thom Barry, Levan Uchaneishvili, Oleg Taktarov, Andrew Divoff, Boris Lee Krutonog, Glenn Close, Michael Monks, Dan Shor, Spencer Garrett, Jürgen Prochnow, E.E. Bell, Paul Guilfoyle, Elester Latham, Chris Howell, Liesel Matthews, Dean Stockwell, Michael Ray Miller, Carl Weintraub, Willard E. Pugh, Fenton Lawless, David Gianopoulos, Diana Bellamy
Trailer
Reviews
100
Entertainment Weekly
Harrison Ford as the President of the United States is such a perfect piece of casting that it's at once a fantasy and a joke: The joke is how perfect the fantasy is. [25 Jul 1997, p. 48]
100
Los Angeles Times
At once vigorous and old-fashioned, a piece of expertly crafted entertainment that gets the job done with skill and panache. [25 July 1997]
88
Rolling Stone
Director Wolfgang Petersen puts such a fresh spin on the familiar that it all works like gangbusters.
80
Empire
Fulfils all its early promise, delivering a well oiled, no-nonsense, supremely entertaining crowd pleaser.
80
The New York Times
A meat-and-potatoes American thriller that means business all around the world.
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