Neville Flynn is an FBI agent handling what seems like a routine assignment - serving as bodyguard for Sean Jones, a Hawaiian surfer dude who is flying to California to testify in a high-profile criminal trial after witnessing mobster Eddie Kim 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.
This film easily has one of the worst titles in major motion picture history. However, I tried to see past that and actually watched it, but I must say that the movie wasn't much better. The plot is so over the top and it could never happen in this day and age with all of the airport security checks, but let's pretend that hundreds of deadly snakes could be snuck onto an airplane - the ensuing chaos was more comical than scary. A snake biting a woman's fake breast, another one taking a bite of a man's johnson, or a boa constrictor attempting to eat an entire person starting with their head - that's funny stuff. If this was marketed as a comedy instead of a scary drama, I might have rated it higher, but some of the scenes (and actors) were so ridiculous that the "scary" scenes were laughable. If you go in thinking this is a spoof of action movies, you might actually enjoy it.
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
Would I watch it again: No
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips
I typically watch movies on Monday, Wednesday and Friday while riding the ACE Train from Tracy to Santa Clara. The opinions expressed are those of me, myself and I.
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