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Actors: Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, J. T. Walsh, Oliver Platt, David Suchet, Joe Morton
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Executive Decision
EXECUTIVE DECISION is a movie directed by Stuart Baird in 1996.

A group of kidnappers lead by David Suchet skyjacks a civilian airplane heading to Washington D.C. Hidden in the baggage hold, there are enough chemical weapons to erase the american eastern coast from the world map. A team of U.S. soldiers tries to enter the plane while it is flying over the Atlantic.

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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%



Time/Era of Movie: - 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster - terrorist kidnappers

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scientist
Age: - 40's-50's
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - short/standard wavy (man)
Body type - average (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) short/butch/lez
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - Black

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - terrorist
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80%
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair type - (man) bald
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - Arab
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Europe Yes
European country: - Italy - Greece - England/UK
Air? Yes
Air: - passenger plane - skyjacking - warplane
City? Yes
City: - Washington D.C.
Misc setting - fort/military installation

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel... - excited
How many deaths in film? - 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets? - 4 ()
Kind of violence: - mission to rescue - guns - knives
Unusual forms of death - dropped from large heights - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives
Lot of special effects? Yes
Kinds of F/X - exploding bombs
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical
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