Snakes on a Plane 4K 2006

“Snakes on a Plane” (let's forget about our clumsily translated title) will go down in history as a film that sparked a cult following out of nowhere. If the film had been based on a literary source, a comic book series, a TV series, a foreign original, an old, forgotten film, a series of chewing gum wrappers, a small article in a third-rate newspaper (underline as appropriate)... then it would not be surprising.

But Snakes had only an idea from B movies and a completely idiotic title. But that was enough to lure Samuel L. Jackson, spawn a bunch of fan sites, and force the studio to take an unprecedented step: tighten the rating, allocate additional funds, and reshoot some scenes with the addition of blood and violence.

Snakes on a Plane is definitely not a movie to be discussed with a cool head. Once you start thinking about it, it's easy to find a lot of inconsistencies and blunders in the film, but... But what the hell does it matter? Why wait for some kind of miracle from this movie? The title says it all. It's clear that there will be a lot of dark humor, action, completely idiotic situations, and even more idiotic ways out of them, and a huge number of snakes biting poor people in all sorts of places: eyes, mouth, chest, buttocks, genitals, arms, legs, necks, etc.

It would have been pretty easy to screw up with an idea like this, but David Ellis knows what this genre requires of him and what the audience expects. After introducing the main characters in the first twenty-five minutes, the director sends the plane on its way, releases the snakes, and goes all out. From the thirtieth minute until the very end, something happens every second, and there is no way to tear yourself away from the screen.