It really didn’t live up to what I was expecting. The characters were fairly pointless, the CGI wasn’t brilliant and the fact that it had been “written” from contributions of various people showed as the story never really flowed correctly and the action seemed incredibly implausible. If you haven’t seen the film then stop now as this will “spoil” it for you.

The opening five minutes set the precident for the rest of the film as Nathan Phillips character witnesses the murder of some guy and is chased down by a local Triad boss who will do all he can to prevent him from testifying against him. In steps Samuel L to save Phillips from certain death at the hands of the henchmen before taking him back to the US to testify. The triads get pissed off and put a collection of exotic snakes onto the plane and spray all the flower necklasses with pheromones to make the snakes go “crazy”.

Half-way into the flight, the snakes are set loose and they start to bite people and cause panic. Captain dies as does the co-pilot and Jackson’s character is left to keep order. As with all these films the crappy characters are killed off and the stars survive to save the day.

There was a surprise performance from Kenan Thompson (of Kenan & Kel fame) as a bodyguard to the rapper who has an OCD over cleanliness.  The crowning moment of the whole film (apart from the final credits) was the quote from Jackson’s character “Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!” Apart from this the dialog was fairly sub standard and uninspiring.

Kate did enjoy the snake specialist who was unwilling to come out because he had baby anacondas which had just hatched.

All in all a poor film with masses of hype that will make the director/producers/actors incredibly rich. If Samuel L Jackson hadn’t agreed to put his name to this then there is a good chance that the film would have flopped massively and been a failure throughout whereas it will be loved by many for being bad and a few people (myself included) will feel that our £5.50 was badly spent