Former Army Ranger Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is returning home on parole to his wife and child after serving eight years for manslaughter. The plane he is flying on is a special convict-only transport plane filled with some of the meanest and deadliest villains of them all. Once in the air, however, the plane is hijacked by convict Cyrus ‘The Virus’ Grissom (John Malkovich), who violent disposes of the plane’s prison guard crew. But US Marshal Vince Larkin (John Cusack) is already on his trail. Poe does his best to stop Grissom from escaping with the group of convicts, and just to complicate matters further his diabetic cellmate Baby-O reveals that he will die if he does not receive his next insulin injection within two hours.

Screening as part of 90s Action Movie All-Dayer.  You can see all four classic action films screening on this day at a reduced rate. Full info is on this page.

Screening as part of Art of Action, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.