From Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer who brought you "The Rock" and "Crimson Tide," comes Touchstone Pictures' action-thriller "Con Air." Con Air is the air transport division of the U.S. Marshals Service, charged each year with transporting over 150,000 criminals across the country for court appearances, medical emergencies and prison transfers.

When a group of the most dangerous and notorious prisoners in the U.S. penal system are transferred to a new super-maximum security facility, the recently paroled Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock) hitches a ride on the Con Air transportation flight. Anxious to see his wife Tricia (Monica Potter) -- after serving a sentence for unintentionally killing a man who had harassed her -- and striving to be home for the birthday of their 8-year-old daughter whom he's never met, Poe suddenly finds himself embroiled in a meticulously planned mid-air skyjacking masterminded by Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich - In the Line of Fire).

On the ground, U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin (John Cusack- The Sure Thing) faces impossible odds as he tries to avert the takeover and, at the same time, keep his overzealous superiors from blowing the aircraft and its passengers into oblivion. Poe becomes a reluctant hero when, along with Larkin, he must fight to stop Cyrus and his band of savage, hardened "lifers" from massacring everyone on board as the damaged plane careens toward disaster on the famed Las Vegas strip.

The DVD edition of this movie is stellar in terms of both audio and picture quality. The transfer itself is only presented in the letterboxed version of (2.35:1) with no Pan & Scan version available. However the transfer is superb and is one of the best I have seen, it ranks up there with The Fifth Element in my mind and is reference quality. Colour saturation, brightness, flesh tones are all spot on and basically the only word I can describe this transfer is amazing.

The audio tracks again sport the Dolby Surround and Dolby Digital soundtrack. The surround track is quite good with punchy base. The digital soundtrack is also very good, it sports some great directional effects and makes constant use of the surround speakers. Also included on the disc are the Theatrical trailer and Movie Teaser, overall an excellent movie with an improbable plot but if you enjoyed it you will love this excellent DVD edition. Highly recommended once more.