Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 11/13/2007
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD-EX/DTS-ESD/DDS
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
Forget terrorists or hijackers -- there's a handful of deadly assassins aboard a jet liner and they don't even have arms or legs in this airborne
thriller.
Neville Flynn (
Samuel L. Jackson) is an FBI agent handling what seems like a routine assignment -- serving as bodyguard for
Sean Jones (
Nathan Phillips), a Hawaiian surfer dude who is flying to California to testify in a high-profile criminal trial after witnessing mobster
Eddie Kim (
Byron Lawson) murdering one of his underlings. However,
Flynn's job gets a lot more challenging when he discovers
Kim's associates don't want
Jones to talk, and have devised a unique way to ensure his silence. A cache of highly dangerous poisonous snakes has been hidden on board the jet, and is released using a timed mechanism once the flight is well underway. The snakes quickly attack several members of the flight crew and are eagerly eying the passengers when
Flynn decides its time to get medieval on the reptiles. Also starring
Rachel Blanchard,
Benjamin McKenzie, and
Mark Houghton,
Snakes on a Plane was produced under the title of
Pacific Air Flight 121, but in several interviews
Samuel L. Jackson expressed his enthusiasm for the script's original title,
Snakes on a Plane, and the high-concept moniker quickly made the film's title and theme a favorite with bloggers and on Internet fan sites all over the world.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
