Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the discharge of their imprisoned chief. Intelligence professional David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects one more reason and he’s quickly the reluctant member of a particular assault workforce that’s assigned to intercept the airplane and hijackers.

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Movie Solid:

• David Grant: Kurt Russell
• Lt. Colonel Austin Travis: Steven Seagal
• Jean: Halle Berry
• Rat: John Leguizamo
• Cahill: Oliver Platt
• Cappy: Joe Morton
• Nagi Hassan: David Suchet
• Louie: BD Wong
• Secretary of Protection Charles White: Len Cariou
• Baker: Whip Hubley
• Jaffa: Andreas Katsulas
• Allison: Mary Ellen Trainor
• Nancy: Marla Maples
• Senator Mavros: J.T. Walsh
• Doc: Ingo Neuhaus
• Catman: William James Jones
• Secretary of State Jack Douglas: Nicholas Pryor
• Basic Value: Stanley Grover
• Admiral Lewis: Eugene Roche
• Basic Wooden: Ken Jenkins
• Basic Sarlow: Charles Hallahan
• Gail: Dey Younger
• Air Marshal: Richard Riehle
• Demou: Robert Apisa
• Ahmed: Granville Hatcher
• Kahlil: Christopher Maher
• Terrorist: Jay Tavare
• Terrorist: Ahmed Ahmed
• Terrorist: Shaun Toub
• Terrorist: Majed Ibrahim
• Terrorist: Jon Huertas
• Terrorist: Joey Naber
• 747 Captain: Ray Baker
• 747 First Officer: Michael Milhoan
• Flight Attendant: Julie Wright
• Flight Attendant: Sunni Boswell
• Assistant to Senator Mavros: Gregg Artz
• Little Woman: Yvonne Zima
• Assistant to Senator Mavros: Will Schaub
• Diabetic Girl: Marianne Muellerleile
• Beckings Institute Aide: Brad Blaisdell
• Remora Pilot: Don Fischer
• Flight Teacher: John Rixey Moore
• American Ambassador: Warren Munson
• American Embassy Responsibility Officer: Lance August
• CNN Reporter: Maggie Egan
• Spider: James C. Victor
• Bulldog: Tim Kelleher
• Fireplace Fighter: David Birznieks
• Fireplace Fighter: Paul Bollen
• London Maitre’D: Nick Jameson
• London Bomber: Juan Fernández
• Collins: Todd Jeffries
• Chechen: Joe Cook dinner
• Chechen: Ilia Volok
• Yugoslavian Woman: Borovnisa Blervaque
• Arab Co-Pilot: Joseph Makkar
• Translator: Damon Lee
• London Hostess: Magdalene St. Michaels
• Diamond Smuggler: Robert Londberg
• FBI Agent: Edmond Brown
• Social gathering Woman: Michelle Boudreau
• MP: Kurt Kohler

Movie Crew:

• Editor: Stuart Baird
• Producer: Joel Silver
• Author: Jim Thomas
• Author: John Thomas
• Unique Music Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
• Director of Pictures: Alex Thomson
• Manufacturing Design: Terence Marsh
• Artwork Path: William Cruse
• Set Ornament: Marvin March
• Costume Design: Louise Frogley
• Co-Producer: Karyn Fields
• Affiliate Producer: Spencer Franklin
• Editor: Derek Brechin
• Editor: Dallas Puett
• Editor: Kevin Stitt
• Editor: Frank J. Urioste
• Casting: Amanda Mackey
• Casting: Cathy Sandrich Gelfond
• Second Unit Director: Steve Perry
• Assistant Artwork Director: Robert Woodruff
• Development Coordinator: Edward F. LaLone
• Leadman: Daril Alder
• Manufacturing Illustrator: Jack Johnson
• Set Designer: Invoice Taliaferro
• Standby Painter: John Hinkle
• Extra Pictures: Don Burgess
• Digicam Operator: Ian Fox
• First Assistant Digicam: Chuck Bemis
• Key Grip: Michael J. Coo
• Grip: Nico Bally
• Steadicam Operator: Gregory Lundsgaard
• Nonetheless Photographer: Frank Masi
• Costume Supervisor: Barry Francis Delaney
• Hairstylist: Audrey L. Anzures
• Key Hair Stylist: Kathryn Blondell
• Make-up Artist: Melanie Hughes
• Make-up Artist: Dennis Liddiard
• Carpenter: Wayne Lindholm
• Craft Service: Willie Radcliff
• Digital Results Supervisor: Brad Kuehn
• Driver: Victor Anderson
• Digicam Loader: Jason Garcia
• Put up Manufacturing Supervisor: Debbi Bossi
• Propmaker: Michael W. Chase
• Property Grasp: Michael Papac
• Second Unit: Joel Chernoff
• Safety: Lockheed Martin
• Particular Results Coordinator: Ken Pepiot
• Stand In: Cheryl Gilbert
• Stunt Coordinator: Dick Ziker
• Stunts: Pete Antico
• Transportation Captain: Vern Bautenhahn
• Transportation Coordinator: Gary Preece
• Unit Manufacturing Supervisor: Paul Moen
• Unit Publicist: Patti Hawn
• Visible Results Editor: Miller Drake
• First Assistant Director: Denis L. Stewart
• Script Supervisor: Jeanne Byrd
• Coloration Timer: Bob Kaiser
• Gaffer: Leslie J. Kovacs
• Lighting Technician: Billy Craft
• Rigging Gaffer: Glenn Corbett
• Casting Affiliate: Elizabeth Lang
• Location Supervisor: Stuart Raven Barter
• Manufacturing Accountant: Thomas A. Davila
• Manufacturing Supervisor: Gil Gagnon
• Growth Operator: Invoice King
• Assistant Sound Editor: Dean G. Manly
• Foley Editor: Scott Burrow
• Music Editor: Darrell Corridor
• Orchestrator: Alexander Braveness
• Sound Editor: Virginia Cook dinner-McGowan
• Sound Mixer: Antonio Betancourt
• Supervising Sound Editor: Robert G. Henderson
• Digital Compositors: Don Lee
• Visible Results: Janek Sirrs
• Visible Results Coordinator: Robin Saxen
• Visible Results Producer: Les Hunter
• Visible Results Supervisor: Richard Chuang
• Visible Results Artwork Director: Tom Southwell
• Costumer: Annette Andreozzi
• Second Assistant Director: Craig A. Pinckes
• Second Second Assistant Director: Lisa C. Satriano
• Second Unit Director: Craig Hosking
• Assistant Property Grasp: Rick Chavez
• Title Designer: Richard Greenberg
• ADR Editor: William C. Carruth
• ADR Mixer: Thomas J. O’Connell
• First Assistant Sound Editor: Brooke Henderson Ward
• Foley Artist: Eric Gotthelf
• Supervising ADR Editor: James Simcik
• Particular Results Assistant: Tony Tortolano
• Particular Results Technician: Donn Markel
• VFX Artist: Mark Tait Lewis
• Visible Results Manufacturing Assistant: Peter Loop II
• Stunts: Joe Bucaro III
• Greatest Boy Grip: William E. Fitch
• Dolly Grip: Michael Brennan
• Second Assistant Digicam: Keith Banks
• Detrimental Cutter: Mo Henry
• Mission Supervisor: Stephen Sobisky
• Assistant Location Supervisor: Ann Lynch
• Music Programmer: Nick Vidar
• Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: James Wirosko
• Assistant Manufacturing Coordinator: Jennifer Corey
• Chief Lighting Technician: Shane D. Kelly
• Digital Results Producer: Dennis Michelson
• Head of Manufacturing: Mitzi Gallagher
• Payroll Accountant: David Romano
• Pilot: Kevin Eldridge
• Manufacturing Assistant: Peter Alun Thomas
• Manufacturing Secretary: Tiffany Scuitto
• Rotoscoping Artist: Karen Klein
• Technical Advisor: Sayed Badreya
• Assistant Editor: Bobby Bell
• Manufacturing Assistant: Boston Russell
• Visible Results Supervisor: Peter Donen
• Supervising Sound Editor: David M. Horton
• Make-up Artist: Mary Burton
• Script Supervisor: Kerry Lyn McKissick
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Les Fresholtz
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Rick Alexander
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: David E. Campbell
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: John T. Reitz
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gregg Rudloff
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Grover B. Helsley
• Sound Editor: Greg Dillon
• Sound Editor: Samuel C. Crutcher
• Sound Editor: Adam Johnston
• Sound Editor: Marshall Winn
• Sound Editor: John Phillips
• Sound Editor: David B. Cohn
• Sound Editor: William L. Manger
• Casting: Zoraida Sanjurjo López
• Stunts: Henry Kingi
• Stunts: Gary McLarty
• Stunts: John C. Meier
• Stunts: John Cenatiempo
• Stunts: Peewee Piemonte
• Stunts: Chris Cenatiempo
• Stunts: Buddy Joe Hooker
• Stunts: Maryellen Aviano
• Stunts: Bobby Bass
• Stunts: Paul Borne
• Stunts: John On line casino
• Stunts: Max Daniels
• Stunts: Eddy Donno
• Stunts: Kerrie Cullen
• Stunts: Kenny Endoso
• Stunts: Kiante Elam
• Stunts: Ousaun Elam
• Stunts: Billy Hank Hooker
• Stunts: Will Leong
• Stunts: Danny Lopez
• Stunts: Henry Kingi Jr.
• Stunts: Larissa Michieli
• Stunts: Alan Oliney
• Stunts: Steve Picerni
• Stunts: Jimmy Nickerson
• Stunts: Don Pulford
• Stunts: Jimmy Romano
• Stunts: Pat Romano
• Stunts: Danny Rogers
• Stunts: John Rottger
• Stunts: Ron Stein
• Stunts: Michael Runyard
• Stunts: Skip Ward
• Stunts: Scott Wilder
• Stunts: P.J. Wagner
• Stunts: David Zellitti
• Stunts: Birgit Okay. Schier
• Stunts: Tony Epper
• Stunts: Eric Chambers
• Second Assistant Digicam: George Richmond

Film Evaluations:

• Wuchak: **_Suspense at 33,000 toes with Kurt Russell_**
• An intelligence analyst (Russell) inadvertently joins a particular forces operation to save lots of a Boeing 747-200 hijacked by terrorists earlier than it’s used to assault DC. Steven Seagal performs the mission commander, Halle Berry a flight attendant and Oliver Platt an aeronautics engineers, amongst different notables.
• “Govt Determination” (1996) is an airliner-in-trouble flick from the angle of “Underneath Siege” (1992) directed by the editor of “Die Onerous 2” (1990). I carry up the latter as a result of this one’s very comparable besides that it takes place within the air fairly than an airport.
• I didn’t count on to love it as a result of it’s mainly “Die Onerous” on a airplane and I didn’t suppose a worthwhile film could possibly be made with such a cramped setting, however work it does. Positive, lots of the runtime includes rescuers strategizing within the bowels of the airbus utilizing hi-tech tools, like hidden cameras, however the creators respect the intelligence of the viewer and there are a number of modern bits together with nice suspense.
• It was clearly prescient of 9/11, filmed six years previous to that notorious assault.
• The film runs 2 hours, 13 minutes, and was shot in SoCal at Norton Air Drive Base, San Bernardino, but in addition Chino Airport, Mojave Desert (crash scene), Sierra Madre (Chechen Mafia Home). The marriage kidnapping sequence was shot in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• GRADE: B