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Executive Decision (1996)

R 03/15/1996 Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller 2h 12m
63%
User
Score
6.5/10
62%
62/100

Five miles above the earth, an elite team of six men must make an air to air transfer, in order to save 400 lives on board a 747...and 40 million below.

Overview

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.

Stuart Baird

Director

Jim Thomas

Writer

John Thomas

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell

David Grant

Steven Seagal

Steven Seagal

Lt. Colonel Austin Travis

Halle Berry

Halle Berry

Jean

John Leguizamo

John Leguizamo

Rat

Oliver Platt

Oliver Platt

Cahill

Joe Morton

Joe Morton

Cappy

David Suchet

David Suchet

Nagi Hassan

BD Wong

BD Wong

Louie

Len Cariou

Len Cariou

Secretary of Defense Charles White

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Media

Trailer 2

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Executive Decision - Trailer

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written on June 4, 2023

**_Suspense at 33,000 feet with Kurt Russell_**

An intelligence analyst (Russell) inadvertently joins a special forces operation to save a Boeing 747-200 hijacked by terrorists before it is used to attack DC. Steven Seagal plays the mission commander, Halle Berry a flight attendant and Oliver Platt an aeronautics engineers, amongst other notables.

“Executive Decision” (1996) is an airliner-in-trouble flick from the angle of “Under Siege” (1992) directed by the editor of “Die Hard 2” (1990). I bring up the latter because this one’s very similar except that it takes place in the air rather than an airport.

I didn’t expect to like it because it’s basically “Die Hard” on a plane and I didn’t think a worthwhile movie could be made with such a cramped setting, bu...

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