Communist Radicals hijack Air Force One with The U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a Veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.
The scene where the camera spins around the room with increasing speed as the Americans are celebrating Radek's death always stood out in my memory of this movie.
@@steveshort4151How can the US president approve the release of a prisoner in a different country? Their government should have said "Go screw yourself" and denied the request!
@@kelvinhow1965 that almost look like a cold prank that they did. They released him leading him into thinking that he's free and they executed him! "You're free but not alive!".
We still get good old fashioned action yarns like this every so often. The John Wick and Equalizer movies, Mission: Impossible, Pacific Rim, Oblivion, and most recently, Plane!
0:00 Fun fact: The two prison guards who bedgrudgingly escorted Radek are the same guys who played as Dima in BF3, Oleg Taktarov (Dima's face model) and Pasha Lychnikoff (Dima's voice actor).
And one of the ultranationalists aboard the plane is played by Ilia Volok, who also was the voice actor and face model for Vlad in Battlefield 3's campaign
@@ericoftheotherworld1525How can the US president approve the release of a prisoner in a different country? Their government should have said "Go screw yourself" and denied the request!
@@TheImaginator972it doesn't make sense. How could a president that he's not a country of approve the release of a prisoner? You would think that country's president or government would deny the request.
@@user-se1dm7fw1t tambem penso assim,só porque queria reestabelecer a uniao sovietica,nao faz dele um vilao, eu torci muito pelo general nesse filme,achei muito foda ele fazendo a continencia com o uniforme do exercito vermelho.viva ao general !!!!!
How can the US president approve the release of a prisoner in a different country? Their government should have said "Go screw yourself" and denied the request!
@@johnkennethwiseman5460 Director Petersen most likely cast him as Radek from their work together on ''Das Boot'. I agree that an actor as good as him should have had a bigger part.
What bothers me about this scene the most is that half of Radek's guards didn't even bother defending him, and the fact that they had an MI-24 Hind Gunship, that did absolutely nothing during the fight.
Radek's guards couldn't do much given they got caught offguard with a sudden change in decision just seconds after being let go to suddenly being told to halt so they really have no time to really properly defend given they thought it would be smooth sailing also I do think they're outnumbered. They only had 4 on the ground(excluding the ones on board the chopper) whereas the prison has 6 on screen and possibly a lot more who are ordered to shoot if he tries to escape
Not so much as where exactly did they plan on going. Even if radek escaped the Russian Air Force would shoot down the helicopter before it could leave Russian airspace
@@dinodonny1998 Why stop there? We can say the same about Jamal "The Butcher" Rahar who has no problem killing families just like he killed a husband and a son in front of a mother behind a bulletproof glass in the US Embassy in Urzikstan.
@@phantomlord5707How can the US president approve the release of a prisoner in a different country? Their government should have said "Go screw yourself" and denied the request!
Stalin in 1997? After the collapse of Soviet Union? After the Chruchnev? Talk about frost-bitten americans with their brains still frozen. No wonder Putin said, that the americans are still sitting in the fridge. It must be really COOL in there.
0:07-0:10 when you’re heading to spend Saturday night with the boys 0:28 when the girl yells at or decides to bring her friends to stop you because you didn’t tell her you love her.
Actually makes sense. This movie shows all of the American exceptionalism and the (dumb) idea that Americans have on themselves, their country and their president. This movie also kinda predicted American intervention in Iraq and Libya, as both countries were named in a derogatory way. So you could guess that when American movies, or any other media, depict Russia in a derogatory way, Putin should not take it lightly
Air Force One captures in its storytelling the mindset of the United States back in the 1990s, when the Soviet Union had fallen and the U.S.A. faced no major rivals in the world. At its heart, it's a story of Americans triumphing over Soviet terrorism and tyranny. The worldview of the pre-9/11 years, when terrorism had an Eastern European face, being an existential threat to the liberal international order (or "new world order," if you will) crafted by Washington and defended by the U.S. military industrial complex. The same military industrial complex and government in cahoots with Hollywood filmmakers, who produced these movies and made us all feel a little patriotic watching them.
Exactly. If i had been in his shoes i would have started Sprinting to that helicopter the second i saw it. Why? because i would have realized that in this moment my freedom and my life are hanging by a Very Thin thread right now and now is NOT the time for preening like a peacock.
@@williamlancaster5136 Yea but keep in mind that he thought that his terrorist companions still had full control of the plane, so he still thought that he had nothing to worry about 😆
@@firemiracle True, but i am a very careful person. I would know the sword of Damocles is swinging above my head and that my companions could mess it up somehow.
Where did radek exactly plan to go? Even if he boarded the helicopter and escaped the russian Air Force would quickly intercept him and either shoot down the chopper or force it to land and arrest him
@@invalleria no I meant if after his release was called off and he took off running g and the guards opened fires. Even if he managed to board the chopper safely he wouldn’t have gotten very far.
Eh its actually fairly easy for choppers to fly in nooks and crannies to evade radar. Unless the fighters were already in the air by the time they got up the chopper could be anywhere
They didn't want them released, they were force to it because US president were held hostage by Kazakhstan nationalists. So, after President got free, he called Kremlin, and the russians ordered the guards recapture Radek or kill him, if he tries to escape.
The Russians picking him up are part of the splinter faction that Radek was leading when he tried to perform his coup. The guards and the uniformed Russians are the actual in-power elected government. Everything else is what the commenter above me said.
If there's one thing I've learnt from Russia, it's that revolting won't change anything. The people revolted against their leaders twice last century. But now, even elected Russian leaders have got the populace under their thumb!
@@ericoftheotherworld1525 The guy clearly says: "генерал, дай руку" which means: "General, give me your hand". Besides, in Russian "врать" means "to lie' not "brother". So, yeah, what you wrote sounds pretty incorrect. It doesn't make any sense. You modified your message but yet again, "брать" means "to take" not "brother". In Russian, brother is "брат" not "врать" nor "брать".
In the movie's atmosphere, had Radek gotten away, the next move was to overthrow the Russian government and bring back the Soviet Regime. They knew once Radek was released, they were about to get royally F'd up.
They should have had General Radek in a Captain America movie where he is working with General Ryker and both of them are working together to bring Johann Schmidt back to Earth so hydra's greatest New World Order shall rise but it shall be prevented thanks to Captain America and the newly reinformed and his crimes expunged because he was under the manipulation of Hydra and of course I am referring to the Winter Soldier
Actually it’s the Kasakh army that has no words. They were so mad after that they decided to attack Air Force One. The Russian president was so happy that he did the right choice of killing off Radek (even though it would have been an alternate choice if he isn’t arrested again) so as Marshall
@@user-tm3si7pw3u In what way is Ukraine a Nazi country? Are they killing millions of Innocent people because of their race? No. Are they instigating invasions of other countries? No. Is their government a dictatorship like Hitler? NO. So your point comparing Ukraine to Nazism is a bunch of crap.
Why is radek so important? His forces still have nuclear weapons and lots of loyalists. Killing bin Laden didn’t stop isis so why would radek being at large be so important
Honestly, That scene with the Russian Government Officials yelling out 'YEEEEEEH!!!" and congratulating each other with utmost respect Truly made me satisfied with a smile and scoff a bit, Acknowledging that their country and people are no longer in danger by a madman of a terrorist army, who intended to restart a cold war conflict in all of Mother Russia for a goddamn goal. Hey, Radek got what he deserved, And he was to blame for killing 200,000 people, And that his terrorist army possessed stolen nuclear arsenals to destroy any lives, who would dare not follow his goddamn ideals. The Corruption of the World got to him, which was very understandable, But it still didn't change the fact that he became a hypocrite, who would kill anyone, regardless of his ideology for a better world. And those Russian Officials have the right to celebrate like that, after Radek's well-deserved death. And Korshunov and his men also got what they deserved, Especially when Korshunov refused to let President Marshall reach out to his conscience, which had been long gone by his stupid ideology crap. That's why Humanity... Doesn't negotiate with any type of terrorist. Ever. Regardless of their race or which country they are from.
I got to say when I was kid I was cheering for America to defeat the evil foreigners and now as a man who's older and wiser in geopolitics if I could go to my 13yr old self I'd say kid you've got a lot to learn about the very country you cheer and those you've been taught to despise
@@MutatedPizzaBoi Actually, you're was on the wrong track all alone: russians only did, what they have to do, because of the Ukrainian boast about their attack on Moscow. And if you think, that i'm blowing smoke, then you're wrong: i've been hearing those nationalists leaders squacking, like vultures, on their TV almost eight years from now about how they gonna storm the Moscow and burned the Kremlin, killing all the russians in the process. And why? Because they were backed up by USA and EU, who created another fascism in Europe. Well, if you're supporting those fascists, then may God have mercy on your miserable soul.
I think the reaction from Zelensky would be something like this: -Putin released from prison. -Ukrainian spies ordered their fellow guards to shoot him dead on the spot before he escapes back to Russia. -Prison staff confirms Putin is dead. -Celebration erupts in Kyiv and throughout Ukraine! -Zelensky notified from his presidential palace in Kyiv that Putin is killed in a prison escape, and the war is over. Russia surrenders, and Ukraine has retaken all of its territorial land from Russia. Ukrainian officials in the White House: IT'S ZELENSKY! WE HAVE RETAKEN UKRAINE! America and Ukraine in CELEBRATION! 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
