Executive Decision
Release: March 15, 1996

In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His suspicions are soon confirmed; Hassan's men have obtained a large cache of stolen Soviet nerve gas, and they are using the 747 to smuggle the deadly gas into the United States, where they intend to use it to wipe out Washington D.C. and possibly the entire East Coast. As the jet approaches the U. S., engineer Dennis Cahill (Oliver Platt) designs a plan in which a military plane will be able to transfer U.S. soldiers onto the 747 and regain control of the plane and its deadly cargo. However, when Travis dies in the course of the mission, intelligence agent Dr. David Grant (Kurt Russell) is forced to take his place alongside explosives expert Cappy (Joe Morton), commando Rat (John Leguizamo), and stewardess-turned-anti-terrorist Jean (Halle Berry). Executive Decision was the first directorial assignment for veteran film editor Stuart Baird; he cut the film as well.

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Rat: "I hope there's a good movie on this flight."
David Grant: "It's over."
Hassan: ""over."? It's not over."
David: "It's over."
Hassan: "Who are you?"
David: "No one."
Hassan: "You're very clever, but you are too late. You stopped nothing."
David Grant: "If you don't believe me, then what are you doing up here?"
Austin Travis: "Who the hell else is going to do it? You?"
Dennis Cahill: "I'll explain it to you later. Right now, I need a drink…; …a really big drink."
David Grant: "We're not going to make it."
Austin Travis: "You are."
David Grant: "What am I doing wrong?"
Jean: "Who cares? Just fly the plane."
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