Executive Decision

Starring: Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal Director: Stuart Baird Original UK Premiere: 1996 Dvd Release: 24th May, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, English

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In Executive Decision, an action film released on Friday, March 15, 1996, an elite military team must board an airliner & defuse a nerve gas bomb that could kill every person on the east coast of the U,S. This movie is also known under the name Critical Decision. Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, David Suchet, John Lequizamo Directed by Stuart Baird Produced by Joel Silver, Karen Fields Written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas Composer Jerry Goldsmith Editor Dalls Puett, Frank J Urioste, Stuart Baird Production designer Terence Marsh Posters Of Executive Decision

Steven Seagal gets killed during the first 20 minutes of this enjoyable thriller, so Executive Decision scores points for ingenuity because it immediately improves when you realise that Seagals role is just a heroic cameo. That leaves Kurt Russell to star as an American intelligence expert who finds himself leading a strike force against Islamic terrorists who have seized in-flight control of a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers. Its not all that different from Air Force One, but the formula story perks right along with considerable suspense as Russells cohorts try to defuse a chemical bomb that could wipe out the entire Eastern seaboard. John Leguizamo plays one of the US commandos attempting to stop the violent hijackers & Halle Berry co-stars as a flight attendant who risks her life to assist Russells rescue team. As action movies go, Executive Decision marked an impressive directorial debut for veteran film editor Stuart Baird.

Kurt Vogel Russell is an American actor. He is the son of Bing Russell, also an actor. Russell started his film career at the age of 10 in an uncredited part in the movie It Happened at the Worlds Fair & was soon signed to a ten year contract with the Walt Disney Company, reportedly by Walt Disney himself. He starred in many Disney films such as Follow Me, Boys!, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes & The Strongest Man in the World. Russell also had a baseball career. In the early 1970s, Russell played second base for the minor league franchise of the California Angels. He led his league in hitting with a .563 batting average. During a play, he was hit in the shoulder by another player running to second base. The collision tore the rotator cuff in one of Russells shoulders. The injury forced his retirement from baseball in 1973 & he returned to acting. Russell was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for the made for television movie Elvis. Posters Of Kurt Russell

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Steven Seagal is a popular action movie actor & an 7th dan black belt in aikido. He was born in Lansing, Michigan. His official film Bio claims that he went to Japan at the age of 17. However, this is inconsistent with an interview he gave in Aikido Magazine, in which he claimed to have given demonstrations in Japanese Deer Park in the early 70s. Ray Van De Walker claims to have met Steven Segal at the Orange County Aikikai, a prominent aikido dojo, around 1974, where he was known as Steve, who gives demos at Japanese Deer Park. It seems unlikely that a 17-year old, a minor in the U,S. would be allowed to emigrate to Asia. Rays memory of him may be worth nothing, He would come to Wednesday night practice. He tended to wear some weird striped robe thing that Japanese Deer Park asked him to wear. In practice, when he threw me, I couldnt feel his hands, which means that he was very skillful at blending ki. In Japan, Seagal taught English & studied zen, aikido, kendo, judo & karate. He is said to have become adept at all of them. Posters Of Half Past Dead

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