``Executive Decision'' A creative hijack movie with Akira Kurosawa's genes alive.

Unique hijack suppression strategy

A Boeing 747 (a nostalgic jumbo jet) flying from Athens to Washington DC was hijacked by terrorists. Their demand was for the release of the arrested leaders, but their true aim was the destruction of the center of the United States. They plan to rush into Washington with their cargo of powerful nerve gas.

In order to thwart this plan, CIA intelligence analyst Grant (Kurt Russell) and his special forces led by Lieutenant Colonel Travis (Steven Seagal) board a modern transport plane and approach a 747 in flight. They board a hijacked passenger plane at an altitude of 10,000 meters and try to take control of the plane.

What makes this work so unique is this setting. Looking back at the entertainment hijack movies (I use this term to distinguish them from true stories) that have been made so far, there are `` Air Force One '' (1997) and `` Con Air' ' (1997). ), `` Passenger 57 '' (1992), and `` Flight The Game '' (14), all of which have the main characters on board the plane who solve the case, such as ` `Die Hard '' (1988) and `` The Silent Battleship '' (1992). There are many settings where you can almost hear the creator's inner voice saying, ``A skilled detective or former special forces member happened to be at the crime scene.It's a bit of an opportunism, but please forgive me.'' As I write this, I don't think that the works mentioned above are bad.In fact, I like them.)

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But that can't be helped. A jetliner is a huge, confined space that flies at an altitude of 10,000 meters at a speed of 900 kilometers per hour. It would be difficult to try to get in here from outside due to the setting. However, ``Executive Decision'' was able to accomplish this shamelessly and confidently. For those who haven't seen it, I won't go into details about how to get on board. Although the method is bordering on science fiction, it is sufficiently convincing and interesting in a cinematic manner, and is one of the highlights of the first half.

The screenplay's power really begins to shine once the protagonist boards the plane. Grant and the special forces hide in the cargo hold and plan the right timing to storm in. However, it turns out that the nerve gas has been rigged with a bomb and that the detonator is hiding among the passengers. If they don't find the detonator, the storm will be blown up. If they hesitate any longer and the passenger plane flies into American airspace, it will be shot down by the U.S. military.

As the time limit approaches, the bomb is defused and the search for the detonator is simultaneously underway inside the plane. However, the F14 finally takes off to shoot down the airliner... In a closed room, with terrorists just one wall away, the protagonists act with bated breath and are faced with various crises, both large and small. Although he narrowly escapes from the crisis, the next challenge soon befalls him. The audience's heart is kept with the continuous tension.

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The screenplay for this film was written by Jim Thomas and John Thomas. The two are brothers and have worked on films such as `` Predator '' (1987), `` Predator 2 '' (1990), ` `Mission to Mars '' (2000), and `` Enemy Line '' (2001). , is good at stories where people use their wits to escape from a crisis. There are many cases of brothers and sisters working together as directors, but I have never heard of a style in which brothers work exclusively on writing scripts.

I don't know how they elaborated the script, but I imagine that when they were putting together the story, the two of them split their roles into two roles: one was responsible for ``driving the protagonist into a crisis,'' and the other was responsible for ``getting him out of it somehow.'' I wonder if he was doing it. Why do you think so? This is because Akira Kurosawa used the method he used to effectively write action thrillers.

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