Snakes on a Plane
The naming of the movie suits its perfectly. I don't mean the literal sense - obviously, its a movie about snakes on a plane. But as with the title, the movie doesn't mess around, and gets straight into a no-nonsense action flick.
It was nothing special. Fun brain candy. Its fun, but you have to block out any sense of logic. Clearly, the best way to take down a person on a plane is to pack a bunch of snakes into a box, with a small timed explosive that blows open the container, releasing snakes into the cargo hold. Oh, and don't forget to spray the flower garland things with pheremones that make the snakes randy as... well... rattlesnakes - and equally agro. It would have been a very short movie if the killers had smuggled on a couple of kilo's of C4 instead of snakes, and let the timed explosive do its work.
But apart from the glaring plot holes, it was a reasonably well executed, if formulaic action movie, with Samuel L. Jackson going doing his stuff (although at times, he seemed to be just going through the motions). CGI was pretty good, and I think they were intermixed with shots of real snakes.
Maybe i'm getting old, but i'm not sure that movie would have got an M rating 5 years ago (probably MA15+ - a fair bit of swearing, gore and nudity). Anyways, worth seeing to vege out on.
2.5/5
It was nothing special. Fun brain candy. Its fun, but you have to block out any sense of logic. Clearly, the best way to take down a person on a plane is to pack a bunch of snakes into a box, with a small timed explosive that blows open the container, releasing snakes into the cargo hold. Oh, and don't forget to spray the flower garland things with pheremones that make the snakes randy as... well... rattlesnakes - and equally agro. It would have been a very short movie if the killers had smuggled on a couple of kilo's of C4 instead of snakes, and let the timed explosive do its work.
But apart from the glaring plot holes, it was a reasonably well executed, if formulaic action movie, with Samuel L. Jackson going doing his stuff (although at times, he seemed to be just going through the motions). CGI was pretty good, and I think they were intermixed with shots of real snakes.
Maybe i'm getting old, but i'm not sure that movie would have got an M rating 5 years ago (probably MA15+ - a fair bit of swearing, gore and nudity). Anyways, worth seeing to vege out on.
2.5/5
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