Air Force One

Tl;dr While it has many so-bad-it's-good moments, overall it's tedious, mediocre, and too up its own rectum to watch to make fun of.

Despite the other glowingly mediocre reviews, I assure you this is not a decent watch as an action film. What it does at times is work as self-parody. The action is ridiculous in a purely surface and particularly incompetent way, and I found myself laughing over the entire sequence of taking over the plane, starting with the typical pipsqueak fake suppressor sounds that don't alert anyone 5 meters away, but especially the flying bodies as Gary Oldman's terrorists mowed down security personnel with abandon, high powered rifle bullets that would be punching through fuselage be damned. When it's not gleefully stupid, the violence is intense, the effect being uncomfortable but banal and pointless.

Nothing here can be taken seriously, excepting Harrison Ford's rapport with his wife and daughter. That part actually worked, and at 53 minutes into the movie, the wife and daughter (isn't that the girl from _A Little Princess_?) are the best actors and only realistically believable characters. Yeah, Glenn Close is "fine", but I was also laughing at the "serious and intense" call with Oldman's spastically over-acted fake Russian.

But the real nail in the coffin, aside from not having the wonderful cast of _Executive Decision_, is that Ford is just a limp sock as some type of guerilla-fighting, loafer-wearing politician. His expressions were amusing as Indiana Jones, but here he just looks tired and confused the whole time. When it's not sad (which is most of the time) it's funny. Speaking of funny, the film forgot to have a sense of humor or charm, instead doubling down on the ridiculous flag-waving self-seriousness. In between bouts of unintentional hilarity, it tends to get tedious, and seeing as I value my enjoyment when watching schlock, I found myself skipping through some pointless and over-long scenes of the sort. Not once was this the case with _Executive Decision_.