Snakes on a Plane (2006)
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68% of critics liked it
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55% of users liked it
(438,140 ratings)
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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- David R. Ellis
- Written By
- John Heffernan
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
- In Theaters
- Aug 18, 2006 Wide
- Studio
- New Line Cinema
Critic Reviews
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David Denby, New Yorker
Intentional low camp always seems wrong unless it's very funny; in trash, one wants clumsiness, even a certain tackiness, and this movie has the production values and the high-tech fluency of a much bigger movie.
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Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
A triumph of high-concept but low-ambition filmmaking.
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Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger
There's a certain knee-jerk impulse to bash Snakes, just because of all the ridiculous buildup, but the film delivers on its promise of reptilian fun, with a camp mix of comedy, horror and suspense.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
The plot is ridiculous and the characters are cardboard, but none of that really matters once the snakes get into the fuselage and start zapping people, the very definition of entertainment.
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Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
This Internet-promoted lark about a Hawaii-to-L.A. flight besieged by a frenzied tangle of snakes is hilariously funny, full of fang-popping scares, and guaranteed to increase travel by train.
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Cast
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Samuel L. Jackson
as Neville Flynn
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Julianna Margulies
as Claire Miller
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Nathan Phillips
as Sean Jones
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Bobby Cannavale
as Hank Harris
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Flex Alexander
as Three G's
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Todd Louiso
as Dr. Steven Price
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Sunny Mabrey
as Tiffany
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Kenan Thompson
as Troy
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Rachel Blanchard
as Mercedes
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Lin Shaye
as Grace
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David Koechner
as Rick
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Elsa Pataky
as Maria
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Byron Lawson
as Eddie Kim
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Keith Dallas
as Big Leroy
- Tom Butler
- Gerard Plunkett








