Executive Decision
Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis leads an unsuccessful Special Forces raid on a Chechen mafia safe house in Italy to recover a stolen Soviet nerve agent, DZ-5. During the raid one of his team is killed, and the nerve agent is found to be missing, leaving the mission a bust.
Three months later, Oceanic Airlines Flight 343, a Boeing 747-200, leaves Athens, Greece, bound for Washington, D.C., with over 400 passengers on board, including U.S. Senator Mavros, and Nagi Hassan, lieutenant of the imprisoned terrorist leader El Sayed Jaffa. Soon after take-off Hassan and his men hijack the flight, demanding Jaffa's release. Meanwhile a suicide bomber working for Jaffa destroys a London hotel.
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Genre: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Karyn Fields, Jim Thomas, Spencer Franklin, Joel Silver, John Thomas, Steve Perry |
| Directed By: | Stuart Baird |
| Written By: | Jim Thomas, John Thomas |
| Cast: | Yvonne Zima, Jaime Irizarry, Ingo Neuhaus, Mary Ellen Trainor, Marla Maples, Ken Jenkins, Ilia Volok, Dey Young, Joe Cook, James C. Victor, Brad Blaisdell, Len Cariou, Ray Baker, Joey Naber, J.T. Walsh, Stanley Grover, Jon Huertas, Jay Tavare, Nicholas Pryor, David Birznieks, Gregg Artz, Anna Carolina Alvim, Don Fischer, Joseph Makkar, Damon Lee, Maggie Egan, David Suchet, Marianne Muellerleile, Greg Bronson, Todd Jeffries, Halle Berry, Richard Riehle, Will Schaub, Majed Ibrahim, Paul Bollen, Michael Milhoan, Kurt Russell, Joe Morton, Dana Schick, Juan Fernández, John Rixey Moore, Whip Hubley, Eugene Roche, BD Wong, Andreas Katsulas, Robert Apisa, Nick Jameson, William James Jones, Ahmed Ahmed, Monica Huntington, Blair Valk, Lance August, Steven Seagal, Paul Collins, Shaun Toub, Christopher Maher, Warren Munson, Charles Hallahan, Oliver Platt, Tim Kelleher, John Leguizamo |
| In Theaters: | Mar 15, 1996 |
| Runtime: | 2 hours 13 minutes |
| Production: | Warner Bros., Silver Pictures |
| Budget: | $55,000,000 |
| Box Office: | $56,569,216 |
| Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
