Let me begin with mentioning that the story is pretty straightforward, the effects are alright, the pacing is fast and pretty good, and put together with the basic premise - snakes on an airplane - makes for a pretty exciting concept for one hell of an action-thriller.
But the film-makers forgot one basic rule in all movies: if you're going to cast Samuel L Jackson, it's going to be a comedy. It's like casting Jim Carrey in Ben Hur. Or Chris Farley in The 10 Commandments. Or Steve Martin in The Pink Panther.
Samuel L "I'm not Michael's dad" Jackson plays a fed who's protecting an eye-witness. They have to board a plane flying from Hawaii to, I dunno, somewhere that's not Hawaii. (Q. How do you spell Hawaii?) But little do they know, the bad guy has planted a crate full of snakes on the plane, a crate set to automatically open and unload its deadly cargo soon after the plane's taken off.
What happens after that?
Well, you have one of 2 options to choose from:
1) Your standard over-the-top all-out nail-bitingly exciting thriller with a completely unexpected twist at the end.
OR
2) A scene involving an r-tard getting bit by a snake right in the ANDY BOGARD, Samuel L Jackson cursing aloud, and 90 minutes of your life down the drainpipe.
If you like crappy movies that are so horrible that they fall directly under option-2, then this is the movie for you. 5/10
P.S. I totally loved it.
2 comments:
This is STILL better than The Spirit and that had Sammy L.J in it too.
P.S.: Afro Samurai is terrible. Maybe he's just a bad actor.
he's the actor whom i can never take seriously, but somehow it's always fun to watch him act.
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