Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

• DirectorSimon West
• Release5 June 1997
• Genre
  Action / Thriller
• Duration1h 56m
• Budget$75,000,000
• Revenue$224,012,234
• Rate
  

  6.753
  4343 reviews
• Productions

  Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films