The Basic Plot in Five Words or Less (with a sixth word in parentheses): Harrison Ford (sigh) saves the world.

My Basic Ramblings: I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove Harrison Ford. Heís the man. Except, curiously, I think Iíve only seen one "non-action" Ford movie (Witness). Didnít see Regarding Henry, Mosquito Coast, Working Girl, Sabrina or The Devilís Own. I think I just like him when heís kickiní ass and taking no prisoners.

If you were to technologically remove Harrison Ford from this film and put someone else in President James Marshallís shoes (say, Arnold Schwarzenegger - no, wait, he wasnít born in the US, he couldnít be president...um....Bruce Willis), Air Force One would be just another mindless, filled-with-inconsistencies-and-stupid-plot-loopholes movie (gee, there are five wires on an electronic hoobajoob, and two of them need to get cut. The wires are yellow, green, red, white and blue. I wonder what two wires the President of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA will have to cut to do what he needs the hoobajoob to do.)

But Bruce Willis is not in this movie. Harrison Ford is in this movie. He takes all the unbelievable parts of the movie (such as the much-mentioned cell phone call from thirty million miles up) and melts them away until all you care about is dreamy, studly, perfect Harrison.

(Spoiler: They kill William H. Macy near the end. Why? I think heís great. He shouldíve won the Oscar for Fargo last year.)

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