15 Most Mindlessly Entertaining Action Movies Ever
2. Con Air
Required Action Hero Line: "Sorry boss, but there's only two men I trust. One of them's me. The other's not you."
Oh we're not done with Nic Cage! Following his Oscar win, Cage went on possibly the greatest action-movie trifecta with The Rock, Face/Off, and my pick for the best of them... 1997's Con Air. Cage leads an amazing ensemble cast including Danny Trejo, Dave Chappelle, Steve Buschemi, John Cusack, and chewing up scenery like a madman: John Malkovich.
A military vet with the worst legal team ever gets put in prison for his military skills, and was apparently not subject to the same laws as other people that are provoked. The next crazy plot point is to fill one plane with a bunch of terrible criminals and expect nothing to got wrong. Spoiler alert: things went wrong.
A movie so ridiculously fun with such a simple concept, you really have to wonder how there hasn't been any sequel.