2006 · thriller · action · cult
Snakes on a Plane
Directed by David R. Ellis1h 45m2006
FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against a mob boss at an upcoming trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate full of hundreds of deadly venomous snakes in an attempt to eliminate the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.
Our read: Snakes on a Plane (2006) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded thriller · action · cult entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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