Critic Reviews
62
Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
15(60%)
mixed
6(24%)
negative
4(16%)
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100
Harrison Ford as the President of the United States is such a perfect piece of casting that it's at once a fantasy and a joke: The joke is how perfect the fantasy is. [25 Jul 1997, p. 48]
100
At once vigorous and old-fashioned, a piece of expertly crafted entertainment that gets the job done with skill and panache. [25 July 1997]
100
Dares to present a flat-out heroic president, without the safety net of irony. It succeeds.
90
Ford makes such a dynamic president in Air Force One, you may find yourself favorably weighing his odds in Iowa and New Hampshire.
88
Director Wolfgang Petersen puts such a fresh spin on the familiar that it all works like gangbusters.
80
Fulfils all its early promise, delivering a well oiled, no-nonsense, supremely entertaining crowd pleaser.
80
A meat-and-potatoes American thriller that means business all around the world.
80
Viewers looking for old-fashioned movie thrills as a change of pace from the glut of alien and digital-oriented features might paradoxically enjoy the feeling of being back on terra firma with this airborne adventure.
80
Takes its absurd premise and keeps itself narrowly focused, pushing its heroic cast through obstacle after obstacle.
75
Think of this as "Die Hard" in a suit, with an election coming up.
