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Snakes on a Plane
1.5 of 4 Stars
Rated R for a Scene of Sexuality, Language and Lots of Gore and Violence
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Julianna Margulies,
Flex Alexander
Directed by:
David Richard Ellis
Snakes on a Plane is the soon to be cult classic that became a hit before it
even hit the theaters. Mostly because of the cheesy name and the content of
the movie. Cult Classics are not usually big box office successes and usually
follow a pretty campy story line. So in every sense of the word, Snakes on a
Plane is certainly destined for cultdom.
Snakes on a Plane is the story of a man who witnesses an assassination and
now he must testify in court to see that the bad guy is brought to justice.
Samuel Jackson is the FBI agent who is in charge of seeing that he gets
there. During a plane flight from Hawaii to California, the bad guys unleash a
huge batch of fake looking snakes to kill everyone inside and hopefully bring
down the plane. When the snakes are eventually unleashed, people start
dying and the big fake snakes reek havoc on every man, woman and child.
The acting was so bad, the script was pathetic and the movie went absolutely
no where. The only thing the movie delivered was a bunch of gross out
deaths and a few scares to go along with it. The director for some odd
reasons believes that the best way to introduce the snakes to the movie is by
having a snake break into a bathroom where a couple is trying to join the
“mile high club” and then the next snake decides to bite a man in the crotch
when he is going to the bathroom. You can probably see where this movie is
going. Absolutely no where. OK, the next scene is a snake crawling up a
very large woman’s skirt while she is sleeping. She thinks its a dream and is
in Heaven for a few moments when all of the sudden she is bitten. I mean
come on guys, is that the best writing they have out there. That has got to be
some of the most pathetic writing I have seen in quite a while. All of these
pathetic scenes are followed by snakes eating dogs, jumping through eyes
and swallowing one man whole.
Something that would have helped this movie a whole lot, would be if they
decided to stick with the first cut of the movie. The director felt that it would
be more advantageous to make this movie R instead of the original PG-13
rating. You can actually see where they added in the foul language and
bloody scenes. Not to mention the Mile High scene in the bathroom. No the
scene in the bathroom was not meant to tease the audience but more to set
up the first scene of the snake.
Samuel L Jackson and the rest of the crew did a decent job with the acting
but really this movie just was too boring to get into. I strongly recommend you
stay away from this movie.
Parental Warning: Scene of Sexuality (Kind of) in the bathroom, language,
and extreme gore and violence. This movie is way too dumb for adults and
way to violent and filthy for kids.
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