Executive Decision

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The Stars: Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo

Category: Action thriller

In A Nutshell: Five miles above the earth, an elite team of six men must make an air to air transfer, in order to save the lives of 400 passengers on board a 747... and 40 million below.

I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this is one of the best movies I have ever watched. A great story, non-stop suspence and great acting make this movie a great watch. Where most movies have unbelievablely high violence and lousy storylines, Executive Decision is quite reality based, both in plot and action.

The movie opens with Steven Seagal and a team of Special Forces commandos raiding a Mafia safehouse in Trieste to retrieve a stolen shipment of nerve toxin, code-named DZ-5. The stuff is so lethal a single drop is more then enough to kill all those situated in a medium sized room. After a brief gunfight, they storm into the area where the toxin supposedly is stored, only to discover it has mysteriously vanished.

Six months down the road, a 747 passenger jet flying from Athens to the United States is hijacked. The demands of the terrorists seems innocent enough at first. They want the Pentagon to release their leader, provide them money in exchange for the safety of the passengers and safe passage to a country of their choice. However, a biological weapons expert, played by Kurt Russell, exposes their sinister plan to actually detonate the plane and the DZ-5 over Washington, an act which could kill millions.

A plan is formed to use an experimental F-117 stealth interceptor to insert a team of six men, including Seagal, on the hijacked aircraft to take out the terrorists and disable the bomb connected to the DZ-5 before it reaches US airspace. However, not all goes as planned... Executive Decision was unfortunately banned in Malaysia because of its portrayal of Islamic fanatics. However, you can get it in stores everywhere on Video CD or Laser Disc format.