Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Over-inflated monument to hype? Trailblazing pioneer of online marketing? Or just the B-movie that could?
So much ink was spilled over Snakes on a Plane it’s easy to lose sight of what counts: is it any good? The answer is yes… and no. It’s the very definition of a ‘what you see is what you get’ popcorn crowd pleaser – one badass movie star, one plane and lots of snakes.
Cue mayhem. Director David R. Ellis’ greatest strength is that he listened to the film’s army of online fans without taking the genre itself too seriously. What that means is a satisfyingly adult level of sex and death, and no time wasting on extraneous dialogue or bullshit character.
It’s not great cinema, it’s not actually, in the cold light of day, a great action movie. But you’ll enjoy it, and that’s what counts.
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