Air Force One (film)

Air Force One is a 1997 American political action thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed and coproduced by Wolfgang Petersen. It is about a group of Russian terrorists that hijack Air Force One.

A joint operation between American and Russian Special Forces leads to the capture of General Ivan Radek Jrgen Prochnow, the dictator of a rogue terrorist regime in Kazakhstan that had possession of stolen Soviet nuclear weapons. Three weeks later, President of the United States James Marshall Harrison Ford is invited to Moscow for a diplomatic dinner, during which he praises the capture and insists the United States will never negotiate with terrorists. Marshall and his entourage, including his wife Grace Wendy Crewson and daughter Alice Liesel Matthews, and several of his Cabinet and advisers, prepare to return to the United States on Air Force One. In addition, a number of press corps have been invited aboard.After takeoff, U.S. Secret Service agent Gibbs Xander Berkeley, acting as a mole, enables a group of six Russian Radek loyalists, posed as a press corps, to obtain weapons and take over the plane, killing many of the other agents and other military personnel while taking the civilians hostage. Marshall is raced to an escape pod in the cargo hold while pursued by the loyalists leader, Ivan Korshunov Gary Oldman. Korshunov arrives too late as the pod is ejected, and returns to the main deck to secure Grace and Alice separate from the other hostages. Unknown to Korshunov, Marshall, a Medal of Honor recipient, remained hidden in the cargo hold instead of using the pod, and begins to observe the loyalists using his military training. ........

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