With a title like “Snakes on a Plane”, you know that a movie is either going to be really bad, or really good (often, because it is really bad), and with a name like Samuel L Jackson attatched to the film it becomes more than likely that it will fall into the second category.The film starts out as your fairly standard drama - some kid witnesses a mobster killing someone, and he is placed into the protective custody of an FBI agent (Jackson) whilst he travels to Los Angeles to testify. Of course, what noone was expecting was for the mobster to hatch a plot to kill this witness using shedloads of snakes… on a plane! As things happen you get to know the passengers, including:
- Mark’s girlfriend from Peep show - complete with annoying
ratdog. - Asian kickboxer who you are convinced is going to be unmasked as an “Evil Assassin” before the end of the film.
- The rap superstar with OCD.
- The typical nasty British passenger who seems to wind everyone up.
Then the passengers get to know the snakes, and our boy Sam gets a little fed up - taking up the challenge of getting the mother**cking snakes off the motherf**king plane. Brilliant stuff! And the fight between snake and trouser-snake is not to be missed!Snakes on a Plane is one of those films which keeps you entertained, both by the drama and the sheer ridiculousness of it all! I can definately see this doing well, especially on DVD.On a side note, I must say that the cinema I saw this in was fantastic (Desert Ridge, Phoenix, AZ) - the surround sound was so good that it felt as if the snakes were in the cinema with you!With a title like “Snakes on a Plane”, you know that a movie is either going to be really bad, or really good (often, because it is really bad), and with a name like Samuel L Jackson attatched to the film it becomes more than likely that it will fall into the second category.The film starts out as your fairly standard drama - some kid witnesses a mobster killing someone, and he is placed into the protective custody of an FBI agent (Jackson) whilst he travels to Los Angeles to testify. Of course, what noone was expecting was for the mobster to hatch a plot to kill this witness using shedloads of snakes… on a plane! As things happen you get to know the passengers, including:
- Mark’s girlfriend from Peep show - complete with annoying
ratdog. - Asian kickboxer who you are convinced is going to be unmasked as an “Evil Assassin” before the end of the film.
- The rap superstar with OCD.
- The typical nasty British passenger who seems to wind everyone up.
Then the passengers get to know the snakes, and our boy Sam gets a little fed up - taking up the challenge of getting the mother**cking snakes off the motherf**king plane. Brilliant stuff! And the fight between snake and trouser-snake is not to be missed!Snakes on a Plane is one of those films which keeps you entertained, both by the drama and the sheer ridiculousness of it all! I can definately see this doing well, especially on DVD.On a side note, I must say that the cinema I saw this in was fantastic (Desert Ridge, Phoenix, AZ) - the surround sound was so good that it felt as if the snakes were in the cinema with you!