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.

• Touchstone Pictures
• Jerry Bruckheimer Films
• Nicolas Cage
• John Cusack
• John Malkovich
• Ving Rhames
• Mykelti Williamson
• Dave Chappelle
• Colm Meaney
• Monica Potter