Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison transport plane -- especially when, under the direction of ringleader Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, they revolt and hijack the plane. Fortunately, our hero's been trained by the Army as an elite one-man-fighting-machine, and a dogged Justice Department agent waits on the ground to help him bring the fanatical fly-boys in...