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Executive Decision
1996
· Movie
· 132 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3592
- IMDb #3470
- Google retired #1933
- Rotten Tomatoes #3247
- Metacritic #2015
- Letterboxd #3513
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3185
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3832
- Metacritic Critics #2284
- Metacritic Audience #1656
- Criticker #2640
- Kinopoisk #3217
- AlloCiné #4520
- Trakt #3311
Every rating
39–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 39, highest is Google on 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Terrorists hijack a transatlantic passenger flight, carrying a nerve gas weapon. A military intelligence analyst is part of a special forces team that attempts a mid-air transfer to the plane to disarm the gas and rescue the hostages. The operation goes awry, leaving the analyst and a small team secretly aboard the hijacked aircraft to complete the mission.
Details
- Director
- Stuart Baird
- Writers
- Jim Thomas, John Thomas
- Studio
- Silver Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 15 March 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $55.0M
- Box office
- $122.0M
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