Executive Decision

Starring:Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, B.D. Wong, Len Cariou, Whip Hubley, Andreas Katsulas, Mary Ellen Trainor, Marla Maples, J.T. Walsh, Ingo Neuhaus, William James Jones, Paul Collins, Nicholas Pryor, Stanley Grover, Eugene Roche, Ken Jenkins
Director: Stuart Baird
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Albert Brooks proves there's laughs after death with this almost heavenly comedy--almost heaven as in Judgment City, where recently perished Daniel Miller (Brooks) learns whether he is worthy of advancing to a higher plane of existence or will be sent back to earth for another incarnation.

His fate will be determined in a very special trial, during which scenes from his life are replayed on a giant screen. "Isn't it realistic?" a judge asks. "It makes some people nauseous." While the steely prosecutor (Lee Grant) will try to prove that Daniel failed in life to face his fears and insecurities, his glad-handing, reassuring defender (Rip Torn) will argue on behalf of this hapless "little brain" (a Judgment City term for residents of earth).

As Woody Allen did for the future in Sleeper, so does Brooks create an original vision of the afterlife. In Judgment City, white-robed residents can eat as much as they want without guilt or fear of gaining weight. They can also visit the Past Lives Pavilion, where they are greeted by a hologram of--who else--Shirley MacLaine.

Daniel finds himself touched by an angel. Meryl Streep gives an enchanting performance as Julia, whose exemplary life is in stark contrast to his. During her trial, the court watches in rapture as she saves not only children, but a cat from a burning building.

Daniel and Julia are a match made in Judgment City, but first Daniel must summon up the courage to express his true feelings for her, or she will surely advance without him.

Defending Your Life is Brooks's most ambitious film and, with Mother, his most accessible. --Donald Liebenson

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Immediately following his death by bus, Daniel finds himself in the afterlife facing his past. If you can't make a case for having lived a full and fearles

superb music score won an Academy Award.s life, you must go back to Earth and try again. But Daniel doesn't want to go back after he meets Julia in this heavenly fable written and directed by Albert Brooks.

Customer Reviews:

DEFENDING ALBERT BROOKS.......2007-07-01

This is Mr. Brooks at his side-splittingest and most sardonic as he prepares to enter the afterlife and must defend the decisions he made in life. This film is clever on all levels. Casting Meryl Streep as someone who has nothing to defend was a stroke of genius. Watch for Shirley MacLaine in a howlingly funny cameo. I have watched this again and again to make up for all the people who didn't see it in the theaters. I have given it as a gift many, many times to people who have never heard of it. I hate to use the term "feel-good" as it is overworked with regard to film, but when this one ends, I'm happy that I watched it.

A Pleasant Comedy.......2007-06-27

I agree with most of what good things everyone says about this movie - I saw it in the theatre when it came out and bought it on DVD, although I'm a tad disappointed there aren't any extras on the DVD. Albert Brooks has always made me laugh but it's nice to see Meryl Streep possibly enjoying a film role for once - it seems like a good pairing of two cerebral actors - you may laff when you hear Brooks' name and the word cerebral in the same sentence but his movies have always made me think he has a good insight into the human psyche. The middle of the film where Lee Grant shows his various mistakes is hilarious and make you think that Brooks' character is just outside of being passed on to Heaven, until the last part of the movie - Rip Torn is his usual funny self, and his ambiguity and vagueness comes off as funny.

Heavenly.......2007-06-10

A good look at The Other Side a.k.a. Heaven. Eating whatever you want, past life regression, moving on. A movie I believe gives people some real good insight into the afterlife. A positive outlook for paradise.

Thought provoking afterlife .......2007-05-12

Family friendly (no bad words), thought provoking movie about the afterlife and what might happen to get all the way into the pearly gates....reviewing your life....not just the bad and good you did, but how you handled yourself (self doubt, self confidence, etc.). I enjoyed it and have watched it at least 3 times.

got it from Netflik and then bought it here before it was even over!.......2007-05-04

Awesome for helping you see that fear can hold us back in our lives! and funny

Average customer rating:

Can anybody ever come up with a good screenplay?
The movie that you will never see as long as you're flying...
Kurt is the best!
Executive Decision best movie of its type to date
Steven Seagal goes "skydiving"

Executive Decision
Starring: Kurt Russell , Steven Seagal , Halle Berry , John Leguizamo , and Oliver Platt
Director: Stuart Baird
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Despite Steven Seagal's imposing presence in this enjoyable thriller, Kurt Russell turns out to be the real star as an American intelligence expert who finds himself leading a strike force against Islamic terrorists who have seized in-flight control of a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers. It's not all that different from Air Force One, but the formula story perks right along with considerable suspense as Russell's cohorts (Oliver Platt, Joe Morton) try to defuse a chemical bomb that could wipe out (you guessed it) the entire Eastern seaboard. John Leguizamo plays one of the U.S. commandos attempting to stop the violent hijackers, and Halle Berry costars as a flight attendant who risks her life to assist Russell's rescue team. As action movies go, Executive Decision marked an impressive directorial debut for veteran film editor Stuart Baird. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Can anybody ever come up with a good screenplay?.......2007-02-19

Although there are a few good scenes to keep you interested, much of the screenplay is hard to believe and a lot of the dialogue is typical Hollywood hype. Halle Berry is actually one of the best acted roles in this otherwise overblown terrorist saga; the terrorists are more believable than the stars.

The roles of Oliver Platt, John Lequizamo and Joe Morton are poorly written, with the honors of stupid lines being attributed to Lequizamo. I'm not sure what possesses people to like his over the top portrayals. He always plays his roles as if he is the most important one in the film. Didn't he ever hear of subtlety?

Oliver Platt, another throw-away part given absurd lines, the same for poor Joe Morton, an actor who deserves more than he is usually given. He plays solid supporting parts, but here his part is ridiculous.

As for the planting of the bomb on Morton and the various efforts to defuse it, all ridiculous. Can't they ever think of something that makes sense. It's like watching an episode of "24".

Kurt Russell, a good actor whose movies are never "A" efforts. So much sweat and strain over so little.

The film is basically a Jerry Bruckheimer epic, have you ever seen ConAir?
Similar in their ethos and forgettable in their presentation. As I said, Halle Berry actually was convincing in her role and the terrorists would be the only reason to see the film. It is typical Hollywood all the way.

The movie that you will never see as long as you're flying..........2006-12-29

The film concerns a transatlantic flight, hi-jacked between Athens and Washington, D.C.

The hijackers are a group of heavily armored suicide fanatical terrorists...

Their motivation is supposedly to free a feared and wanted terrorist, recently handed over to US authorities, arrested, and taken to a warship in the Mediterranean...

The President has two options: to let the passenger fleet proceed to the United States or destroy it before it gets there along with hundreds of passengers...

Steven Seagal is the commando leader who recognizes the threat, but proposes to use a modified Stealth fighter especially designed for mid-air crew transfers, and thus allow his elite anti-terrorist unit to sneak the Boeing 747, localize and eventually disarm the bomb, and overtake the hijackers...

Kurt Russell is the Pentagon intelligence analyst, who believes that the hijacking is just a ruse, that the deadly nerve toxin is on board, and that the terrorists are planning to use it and the airplane as 'a sort of poor man's atomic bomb, to be detonated over Washington..'

Halle Berry is the brave helpful stewardess who understood the message of the striking team... She has to identify for them, the passenger who is in control of the bomb...

David Suchet is the terrorist who can endanger us all! He is Jaffa's deputy director, Nagi Hassan fanatically driven by hatred and violence... This nasty man seizes control of the air carrier and plans to kill everyone on board...

Oliver Platt is the aerospace engineer, who can isolate the bomb's power sources only if he could control his nerves...

Joe Morton is the bomb disposal expert who guides Platt through the disabling of the bomb...

J. T. Walsh is the ambitious senator who wants to be seen as the savior of the hostages, an image that won't hurt him in the presidential elections...

John Leguizamo (Seagal's second in command..) hopes for a good movie on board...

Thanks to a solid cast and plenty of action and suspense, Stuart Baird's 'Executive Decision' could be a timely reminder to one deceptively simple question: How can we stop hijackers from using planes as weapons?

Kurt is the best!.......2006-11-11

While a lot of reviewers took exception to Seagal being in the movie at all. He may or may not be their cup of tea! I think the movies were he gets to demonstrate his abilities in self defense are great! I don't really care what happens backstage, whether he was killed off because of attitude or not! I watched the movie because of the Russell and Seagal! You can find hundreds of thousands of women just as, or better looking than Halle Berry! You reviewers would think it would have been great if Hilton, Spears or any other high priced woman of the night were to be in the movie. Your only looking for that moment when you can see something that the edit room missed anyway!

Executive Decision best movie of its type to date.......2006-11-03

This movie will keep you on the edge of your seat from begining to end. A fast paced drama, that starts with action that takes your breath away and barely gives you a chance to take a normal breath through the end.

A small elite force attempts a mid-air recapture of a highjacked plane, while the President must decide when/if their mission has failed, and order the combat planes accompanying to commercial liner to move in to destroy it before the terrorists can use it as a bomb. Pre-dates 9-11.

I currently rank this movie 5 on my all time favorites list, and the number one drama.

Steven Seagal goes "skydiving".......2006-07-23

The initial premise of the movie is simple enough: Arab terrorists are hijacking a plane. Through an elaborate setup that allowed them to sneak guns and explosives onto the plane, the terrorists take charge of a plane that has a senator on board, and the most incredible flight attendants ever (Halle Berry is one of them), in order to get one of their terrorist brethren released from a prison of some sort.

How will the Americans stop the plot? This is where it gets thick.

A Special Ops team led by Steven Seagal is going to fly on a stealth bomber to dock-up with a 747 where a specially designed sleeve, designed by Oliver Platt, who is some sort of genius in this movie, allows the good guys to surprise the bad guys. Seagal's team is joined by a Middle East expert of some kind, Kurt Douglas, whose knowledge in these affairs is essential to the mission for whatever reason.

The movie gives a quick shock to the viewers when, upon entry, the Special Ops team encounters some turbulence. The guy who's supposed to defuse the bomb gets paralyzed, and the best surprise of all, Seagal dies. Yes, it's a major disappointment in some ways because I wanted to see some arms get broken unnecessarily, but it helps the movie along in much more important way: the viewer doesn't have to suffer through Seagal's unbearable acting. Additionally, it's hilarious because he gets chucked from a plane at 30,000 feet.

What ensues is a race to move around the airplane without detection, defusing bombs and disarming terrorists. Will they succeed? Will they accomplish their goals before the President gives authorization to blow the plane filled with nerve agent out of the sky?

It's an exciting enough movie with talented actors, tension, drama, and a mostly believable plot-line. I enjoyed it and I recommend it as a late-night action fix.

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Executive Decision/Unlawful Entry
Starring: Kurt Russell , Steven Seagal , Halle Berry , John Leguizamo , and Oliver Platt
Director: Stuart Baird , and Jonathan Kaplan
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Release Date: 2007-01-02

Description

Commando action...at 30,000 feet. Kurt Russell leads a star-packed ensemble of Executive Decision (Side A) when elite operatives slip aboard a hijacked 747 in mid-air. The mission: Find and defuse a nerve-toxin bomb destined for the U.S., then rescue the passengers. Halle Berry, Steven Seagal and more join Russell for high excitement directed by Stuart Baird (U.S. Marshals). Russell is firmly on the ground yet surrounded by danger when he plays suburbanite Michael Carr in Unlawful Entry (Side B), a thriller that taps into fears about criminals hiding behind badges. Ray Liotta plays a cop who insinuates himself into the lives of Carr and his attractive wife (Madeleine Stowe), and director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) ramps up the tension as protector turns predator, imperiling those he's sworn to defend. Powerful suspense!

Average customer rating:

Can anybody ever come up with a good screenplay?
The movie that you will never see as long as you're flying...
Kurt is the best!
Executive Decision best movie of its type to date
Steven Seagal goes "skydiving"

Executive Decision [Region 2]
Starring: Kurt Russell , Steven Seagal , Halle Berry , John Leguizamo , and Oliver Platt
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Customer Reviews:

Can anybody ever come up with a good screenplay?.......2007-02-19

The movie that you will never see as long as you're flying..........2006-12-29

Kurt is the best!.......2006-11-11

Executive Decision best movie of its type to date.......2006-11-03

Steven Seagal goes "skydiving".......2006-07-23

Average customer rating:

Can anybody ever come up with a good screenplay?
The movie that you will never see as long as you're flying...
Kurt is the best!
Executive Decision best movie of its type to date
Steven Seagal goes "skydiving"

Executive Decision [Region 2]
Starring: Kurt Russell , Steven Seagal , Halle Berry , John Leguizamo , and Oliver Platt
Director: Stuart Baird
ProductGroup: DVD
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Customer Reviews:

Can anybody ever come up with a good screenplay?.......2007-02-19

The movie that you will never see as long as you're flying..........2006-12-29

Kurt is the best!.......2006-11-11

Executive Decision best movie of its type to date.......2006-11-03

Steven Seagal goes "skydiving".......2006-07-23

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Executive Decision [Region 2]
Starring: Kurt Russell , Steven Seagal , Halle Berry , John Leguizamo , and Oliver Platt
Director: Stuart Baird
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