Producer Joel Silver is no mug at the action game, being one of the chaps behind the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard series, and, though no match for his best work, this thriller is entertaining enough. In this once far-fetched but now rather chilling action tale, David Suchet's gang of terrorists heads towards the USA in a hijacked jumbo jet with enough stolen Russian nerve gas to kill millions of Americans. Steven Seagal and the deceptively urbane Kurt Russell share top billing as part of an elite team that sets out in a stealth bomber to try to defuse the situation. It's competently done and director Stuart Baird (who is probably better known as a film editor) makes good use of the set pieces.

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.