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Snakes on a Plane (2006)
I don’t have a fear of Snakes but I will think twice before touching them. Imagine putting 450 snakes on a plane. Samuel Jackson stars in a snake movie called “Snakes on a Plane” and as the name suggest, it is just that many, many snakes on a plane.
The movie is an action beast film like Anaconda and is targeted to give you thrills for almost two hours and for those two hours it almost succeeds.
The story is simple. A surfer on a vacation in Hawaii, Sean Jones played by Nathan Philips sees a murder being committed by a mafia boss. After an unsuccessful attempt on his life, Sean joins hands with Neville Flynn played by Samuel L Jackson, a FBI agent and take off to LA to testify against the mafia boss. The mafia boss in an attempt to kill him plants 450 snakes in the cargo. He sprays some chemical over them to aggravate them. The snakes are to be released by a time mechanism.
As expected the snakes are released and they make their way through the cargo and AC into the passenger area. People start getting killed. Among the passengers are a Rap group, a mother with a baby, a kick boxer, a rich woman with a small dog (striking resemblance to Paris Hilton), two small boys who are flying alone, a aged air hostess, two young air hostess, one of whom is taking her last flight (Why one of the character always has the last job in such movies). These are some of the characters which survive. Other as expected die a gruesome death. How the passengers fight against these snakes and land the plane when both the pilots are dead forms the rest of the story.
All are expected characters with an unlikely hero somewhere. Many obnoxious people realizing their behavior was wrong and then fighting together with other passenger. SoaP is not a typical big budget monster movie. Its a small disaster monster movie and does not aspire to be one. Its supposed to give on the edge entertainment with some cheap thrills with snake attaching in vengeance and all the snakes with their big teeth and all and snakes coming from all quarter to make you feel gross and everything. The snakes biting everybody and those dying turning blue and snakes biting the private part of people. The movie does all that.
The snakes are mostly animation with fierce looking faces for effect and the special effects are good. There are snakes with various sizes and shape including a big Anaconda which is shown swallowing a big fat man. Don’t ask me, I closed my eyes. I did not want to pass out again.
Except Samuel L Jackson, no other actors are known to me. Actually actors are not that important as most of them die before you even remember them. But the thrill is there. If you are expecting a quality movie maybe like even “Godzilla”, this is not a movie for you. But if you enjoyed the “Tremors” series, then yes you could watch this. Its fun. Never a boring moment.
At the climax when Samuel L Jackson is tired of the snakes and goes almost on a suicide plan he shouts
Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
You actually find yourself rooting for him. If you enjoyed those Hollywood B-grade action flicks where the hero kills all the villains with his big machine guns and everything, you will enjoy SoaP. If you looking at direction like this one is directed by David R Ellis who directed “Cellular” and script you can throw the logic out of window. Its entertainment and you enjoy it. Only thing is you end up watching the commode and small holes from where snakes can come out. Doesn’t cost to be careful, does it?
Rating: I would give a 7/10 even though low on quality but high on entertainment. People would not agree but who cares. I enjoyed it.
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i agree.. i totally enjoyed this flick!! i went in, leaving my brain at home (every now and then, you just have to go to movies where you can do this), and came out with a paisa vasool (money’s worth) smile on my face. this one’s not about how well it was directed, or how good its actors are.. it’s not even about all the internet hype that was surrounding it. (for those who missed it, until the movie was in theaters, you could go to snakesonaplane.com, enter in a friend’s information on the website, and have samuel l. jackson’s voice [a computer generated voice that sounds EXACTLY like sammy] call up your friend, and ask him to get off his lazy ass and go watch some motherf*ckin snakes on a motherf*ckin plane.) this movie’s all about the title. it’s all about the action. it’s all about the carnage. and it’s all about getting rid of those motherf*ckin snakes and getting out alive. enjoy!
- the other person who enjoyed this movie and could not stop talking about this one - months before it was released - is t! kaan pak gaye the uski soap ki bateein sun sun ke
I really enjoyed this movie. I was excited to see it because it first came to my attention last October 1, and I began to follow the buzz and the whole Internet phenomenon. I didn’t expect the movie to be good, in fact I was hoping it would be a badly funny movie, and I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw.
A good, simple, entertaining movie. Fast paced, funny where it needed to be, serious where it needed to be, not overly bloody or violent (which is good, who needs gore when you have snakes?), and very well paced.
One thing that struck me about the movie is that it was set up as a 1970’s disaster flick, aka Airplane or Earthquake or the like. At the beginning you are introduced to the situation that will drive the plot, then a brief introduction of the main characters and their back story, and then the disaster, with all characters playing the roles that you know they are supposed to play based on their brief introduction. A happy ending for the cast, with the inevitable death of one of the heroes, and everyone is reunited with their loved ones at the end. A simple formula for an action movie that seems to have died with the advent of digitized special effects in the 1980’s…
As for the famous line uttered by Samuel L. Jackson? You know, the one that was sent as a text message and quoted on a million blogs and bulletin boards? With all the hype you would think that when the time came for it to be said in the movie that it would be lame, but instead it was inspiring and cool! Once again, another pleasant surprise in a movie I thought would suck.
And as far as the actors, they all did what they were supposed to do – nothing more and nothing less. This is a shame in one case, the role of Clare Miller played by Julianna Margulies. I am so glad to see her doing a big budget movie, she is a real talent and I am a big fan of hers, but in this film she didn’t get a chance to show what a great actress she is, she just worked her lines like the rest of the cast. This is not a bad thing, though, as the snakes and Samuel L. Jackson were the stars of the film, as everyone else was just snake food or barricade builders….
This is not great cinema, I will never add this to my library, but it was an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours after happy hour, and on a rainy night when you are drinking beer with friends looking for a good, light movie to rent, this should be one to consider.