Executive Decision

Executive Decision (1996) is Stuart Baird's airborne action thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Hijackers seize a 747 bound for Washington and demand the release of their leader. But intelligence analyst David Grant has a far darker theory about why.

A desk-bound Middle East expert, Grant suspects the plane is carrying a nerve-gas bomb meant to wipe out an entire city. A special team has to transfer from a military jet into the hijacked airliner at 35,000 feet, without tipping off either the passengers or the gunmen. When the squad's commander dies in the opening minutes, the mission falls to people who never trained to lead it.

Kurt Russell plays the civilian forced to step in for the professionals he's lost. The team includes John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt and Halle Berry as a flight attendant, while Steven Seagal exits the picture surprisingly early. A tense, two-hour thriller locked inside a single fuselage. Stream Executive Decision (1996) online on iFILM.