Tommy Dassalo’s Con Air 2: Con Voyage is exactly the hilariously awful live-action sequel to the classic 90s action film that you (or maybe just this writer) have been desperately waiting for.

Dassalo portrays Cameron Poe, some years after the initial felon-manned flight, trying to adjust to normal life. His wife Tricia (Kate Dehnert) is finding herself less attracted to her former action-hero husband, now made redundant from his job at the dildo making factory. In an attempt to spice things up, the pair take a romantic cruise, which is promptly hijacked by financial bad boy Bernie Madoff (Jamie Robertson) and steered into the Bermuda Triangle. Just like every bad-good action movie, an endearing little orphan meets many a misfortune, and one-liners sprinkle every turn of the script.

Con Air 2: Con Voyage is absolutely ridiculous – haphazardly written and “poorly” acted in meta-tribute to the film that it pays homage to. It’s bad in the good way that makes you cringe gleefully in solidarity—for mutual love of overly dramatic action films from the nineties. The D-grade show merges classic, gaudy dialogue with heavy doses of crass Australian humour to get you buckled over and shouting in laughter. Dassalo, Dehnert and Robertson are all fantastic; their chemistry and sheer enjoyment is evident throughout. At times, Dassalo shifts between Poe and Nic Cage – asking for lines and accidentally introducing himself as Nic. It strikes as a somewhat unnecessary deviation from the ethos of the show. Thankfully, it only happens a few times and the comments from the “director” give a sense of comic redemption.

The idea of a show about Cameron Poe’s life after the events of Con Air seems rife with potential for overreliance on bad Southern accents and conveniently rebirthed John Malkovich characters. Thankfully, Con Air 2: Con Voyage goes beyond being a mere consortium of action film tropes (though there are plenty of those, don’t you worry). It stands as a conceptual tribute – to bad action movies everywhere.

Con Air 2: Con Voyage is on at the Imperial Hotel until the 21st of October, and then again on Saturday the 4th of November. Check it out if you’re a bad action movie lover.

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