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Monday, September 18, 2006
Snakes On A Plane
Ok. After a couple of weeks of fruitless attempting to twist people's arms to come and see this movie, I finally said: "Feck the begrudgers" and headed on into Cineworld in town to catch one of the final few showings.
The local cinema in suburbia didn't deem this movie worthy of it's critical audience but little matter, I was in town anyway.
So, popcorn loaded and exorbitant price for admission paid, I took my seat for the visual spectacular in what was a surprisingly crowded cinema given that SOAP was at the end of it's run and that it was 6.30pm. Maybe, this was the difference between suburbia and the city centre crowd? A cosmopolitan crowd willing to not take itself too seriously and appreciate that this is movie is actually laughing with us.
Coming off the internet hype, this movie could have disappointed in a big way but I thought it was a thoroughly enjoyable flick.
The whole premise of Snakes... is ludicrous of course but the whole approach to the movie allows the audience to mentally queue up the inevitable, obvious but well constructed gags and dialogue. I won't spoil anybody's evening in the future by relating what these gags are because, truth told, there isn't much of a movie without them and that is perhaps, for me, Snakes real weakness.
The plot of how the snakes are actually embarked on the flight and slipped past whatever cursory security there was (maybe it's pre 911, in fact there are no references to 911 in the film at all) is never established and the actual ability of any smuggler to round up that many snakes in size and variety requires extreme disbelief suspension. But other than that the director does a good job of creating audience approved human cannon fodder for the snakes, makes all the right moves in terms of limiting the gore but at the same time bringing the humour and shows Samuel in his best light.
Which is ass-kicking.
Though, obviously, the snakes have no asses to speak of.
And whilst Sam's character quickly got his fill of the "motherfucking snakes" on the "motherfucking plane", I personally couldn't get enough.
Leave your brain at the door and enjoy a movie that comes on like a bizarre hybrid of Airplane with the tongue in cheek dialogue of Commando.
Snakes On A Plane
Director: David Ellis
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Blanchard, Nathan Philips, Todd Louiso
Details: USA / 105 mins (15A)
Rating: 4/5
Motherfucker!
The local cinema in suburbia didn't deem this movie worthy of it's critical audience but little matter, I was in town anyway.
So, popcorn loaded and exorbitant price for admission paid, I took my seat for the visual spectacular in what was a surprisingly crowded cinema given that SOAP was at the end of it's run and that it was 6.30pm. Maybe, this was the difference between suburbia and the city centre crowd? A cosmopolitan crowd willing to not take itself too seriously and appreciate that this is movie is actually laughing with us.
Coming off the internet hype, this movie could have disappointed in a big way but I thought it was a thoroughly enjoyable flick.
The whole premise of Snakes... is ludicrous of course but the whole approach to the movie allows the audience to mentally queue up the inevitable, obvious but well constructed gags and dialogue. I won't spoil anybody's evening in the future by relating what these gags are because, truth told, there isn't much of a movie without them and that is perhaps, for me, Snakes real weakness.
The plot of how the snakes are actually embarked on the flight and slipped past whatever cursory security there was (maybe it's pre 911, in fact there are no references to 911 in the film at all) is never established and the actual ability of any smuggler to round up that many snakes in size and variety requires extreme disbelief suspension. But other than that the director does a good job of creating audience approved human cannon fodder for the snakes, makes all the right moves in terms of limiting the gore but at the same time bringing the humour and shows Samuel in his best light.
Which is ass-kicking.
Though, obviously, the snakes have no asses to speak of.
And whilst Sam's character quickly got his fill of the "motherfucking snakes" on the "motherfucking plane", I personally couldn't get enough.
Leave your brain at the door and enjoy a movie that comes on like a bizarre hybrid of Airplane with the tongue in cheek dialogue of Commando.
Snakes On A Plane
Director: David Ellis
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Blanchard, Nathan Philips, Todd Louiso
Details: USA / 105 mins (15A)
Rating: 4/5
Motherfucker!
posted by Christophe at 18.9.06
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