Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Samuel L. Jackson
Nathan Phillips
Rachel Blanchard
Julianna Margulies

Directed by David Richard Ellis

Plot: When a young man witnesses a brutal mob murder, it falls to FBI agent Neville Flynn to escort his charge safely from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify. But in an act of self-preservation, the crime boss facing prison smuggles hundreds of poisonous snakes onto the commercial aircraft in a crate timed to release its deadly cargo halfway over the Pacific. Flynn, along with a frightened flight crew and passengers, must then band together in a desperate attempt to survive.

Review: I, like most everyone else, love Samuel L. Jackson. He is truly a bad man and shows it on screen. Everything about him just oozes cool. I will watch any movie he does just cause he’s in it. The trailer for this movie was great and ridiculous and I couldn’t wait to see it.

All I can say about this movie is that it is great. It has a silly premise and a somewhat stupid story and it all works. Samuel L. Jackson is vintage bad ass in this movie. This movie was written for him and works mainly because of him. The other thing that makes this film works is the fact that the makers of this film knew what they had and didn’t try to make it something else. This film falls in the line of movies like Piranha, just totally unbelievable and stupid, but a great ride. This movie doesn’t take itself too seriously and it makes it come together nicely. This is a movie you need to leave your brain at the door to watch and just have fun with it.
 

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