Sue Robinson Radio Times Feb 2, 2024 4/5

The midair mayhem never lets up in a stunt-filled thriller that's brimming with nasty villains and daring deeds.

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Brian Rowe InSession Film May 3, 2023

An entertaining thrill ride...

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Mar 19, 2023 3/4

Air Force One ultimately isn’t so much “Die Hard on a plane” (Fly Hard?) as much as it’s a Top Gun for grown-ups -- military hardware in the service of a red-white-and-blue chest thumper.

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Douglas Davidson Elements of Madness Mar 16, 2023

It’s tense and exciting in direction, the scripting is solid so that everything just flows with natural tension-breakers, and the performances are engaging whether as leads or supporting.

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Dan DiNicola The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) Jan 10, 2023 C+

Predictable and full of the usual terrorist tactics. It's two hours of tense drama and intense brutality.

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Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) Nov 22, 2022

[Wolfgang Petersen] turned this sky-high silliness into a top-flight popcorn movie.

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Stephen Silver Tilt Magazine Aug 5, 2022 4/5

Imagines a fantasy in which the president can, in fact, be an action hero, and even repel the hijacking of the titular presidential plane (25th anniversary)

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Cory Woodroof 615 Film Jun 25, 2022

God bless Wolfgang Petersen for mounting such a thrilling, phenomenally stupid-yet-surprisingly deep studio blockbuster at a time where we need way more of that than Spider-Man 7.

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Christopher Lloyd The Film Yap Dec 14, 2020 4.5/5

Air Force One is one of those films stuck in amber that knows exactly what it is and what it's trying to do -- and then does it very well.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Oct 20, 2020 3/4

...a wildly over-the-top premise that's employed to entertaining, sporadically enthralling effect by Petersen...

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Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Sep 27, 2020 5/5

Air Force One holds up almost 25 years later and the film remains one of the greatest presidential action thrillers to grace the big screen.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Sep 9, 2020 7/10

A capable thriller bearing Wolfgang Petersen's signature flair for suspense.

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Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter Jul 26, 2019

This pulsating political actioner should prove cathartic for mainstream viewers who yearn for a decisive, gutsy executive branch of government.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Apr 24, 2016 C+

Everything about it was unreal, except it did a big box office.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Feb 19, 2013 B

Well executed action thriller by Das Boot German director Petersen, which is rather weak in plot and characterization.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 A

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Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews Jun 10, 2009 3/4

[An] unabashedly jingoistic action extravaganza starring Harrison Ford as...'The Ass-Kicking President'...[Blu-ray]

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Jul 23, 2007 B

As the familiar cat-and-mouse plot unfolded, I let myself enjoy the unapologetic masculine thrills.

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Jeffrey Overstreet JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) Dec 6, 2004 C+

It's embarrassing to see [Ford] hanging by a thread ... behind his own 747. No image better fits the fragile state of his [career] at this point... he's losing his grip.

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Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Mar 19, 2004 3/10

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