Con Air

Con Air is a typical Hollywood action movie. There're enough explosions, chases, and fights to keep most fans of this sort of thing happy for weeks, and the acting is actually very good and believable all round. But it brought a different feeling to me from other Hollywood action movie gave me, maybe it’s because of Nicolas Cage’s perfect acting skill. The movie tells us a touching story besides the action scene.

Nicolas Cage,(Cameron Poe) plays the nice guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, and goes to prison after inadvertently killing someone harassing his wife in a fright. The judge decides that Cage, as an ex Ranger should know better than to use his considerable fighting skills on worthless drunks and sends him into prison. During his prison term his daughter is born, whom he refuses to let visit, but collects all of her pictures and letters. He also beefs up, grows his hair long, and acquires a stack of white vests, to help show off his physique. Well sure enough, after getting parole he is being transported on a prison aircraft for a ride home, when the plane is seized (through a planned and elaborate hijack) by the other inmates. Of course, the plane is packed with the worst criminals from across the whole country. Cameron got the chance to get off the plane and go back home to see his wife and daughter, leaving the other prisoners behind. But as an ex-Army Ranger, he chose to stay at the plane and saved his companion. He pretended to be a prisoner sentenced to death and get the trust of the escaping prisoners on the plane. After a long period of fright against them, he finally manage to take the plane under his control. With the help of a clever police he successfully caught the run-away prisoners and return to his families safely.

Nicolas Cage is one of my most favorite actors in Hollywood. Although he is not a man with the wisecracking charisma, his sad eyes deeply attract me. And his perfect acting skills made the movie out of a common action movie. He successfully showed us both a good husband and father. Although he has to be sent to prison, he still tried his best to protect his wife. And after killing the man who harassed her wife, he bravely took the responsibility. I think his wife was a lucky woman who can marry a husband willing to protect her with his life. I admired her.
And there’s one scene that impressed me the most in the movie ——the last scene. Cameron prepared a rabbit toy for his daughter as her birthday present. On the plane after the worst guy discovering that Cameron was cheating, he used the rabbit as the hostage asking Cameron to put down the gun in his hand, which will put him in great danger. But Cameron did follow his requirement because the rabbit was so important for him that he couldn’t lose it. From this we could see how deeply he loved his daughter.

At the end, the rabbit fell in the dirty water where Cameron picked it up and stretched it to his daughter with the utmost care. At first his daughter was a little afraid of the big dirty guy with blood on his face because it was the first time she had seen his father. But blood is thicker than water. Soon she caught the little dirty rabbit and called “Dad”. After hearing his daughter calling him “Dad”, Cameron tightly held his wife and daughter together, including the little rabbit.

Then came the theme song of the movie:

How do I,

Get through the night without you?

If I had to live without you,

What kind of life would that be?

Oh, I

I need you in my arms, need you to hold,

You're my world, my heart, my soul,

If you ever leave,

baby you would take away everything good in my life,

and tell me now

How do I live without you?

I want to know,

How do I breathe without you?

If you ever go,How do I ever, ever survive?

------- “How Do I Live “ Leann Rimes

here is the link of the movie from imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118880/

here is the link of the theme song from youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFnD3uwKHag&feature=fvst