Movie Review - Snakes on a Plane

I give it 2 out of 10 because it's not as bad as Sunshine. Sam Jackson plays an FBI agent taking someone to give evidence on a civil airliner. 1st mistake right there. It'd be an FBI Lear jet just like the one Sam was looking at in the departure lounge. The snakes are placed on the plane by someone working for the bad guys and all the internal doors are rigged to stay open to allow the snakes access all over the plane.

2nd mistake there. There would be final checks by ground crew of internal baggage compartment doors and any doors left open by henchmen would be closed. Also open doors would trigger cockpit alarms so the plane would have never left the ground. 2 reasons why the snakes could never repeat NEVER have left the sealed hold.

Ignore the stupid idea that snakes made annoyed by pheromones are going to going and kill everything in their path. Realistically that means all the snakes are going to kill each other in the sealed hold before any of them ever got anywhere else in the plane. Call that mistake 3.

The snake that fries the avionics just merrily carries on despite being given a pretty hefty electric shock. NO! this snake would have been killed stone dead by that shock. Call that mistake 4.

The fact that the snakes manage to get from the sealed hold into any of the electrical systems (totally unlikely even if things were left open). The writers clearly didn't do much research into the planes layout (the electrical breaker bay under the cockpit that doesn't exist and isn't there, for 1 huge mistake making that number 5) they wouldn't get into the air conditioning or oxygen mask areas.

Half the snakes attack with no provocation, even with the pheromone, snakes would not attack such a large target like a human. Most choose to hide and back away from conflict (shows how well the writers researched snakes too, as badly as their plane research). The actors are awful, even Sam Jackson. the script is dire. it's sexist, racist and so politically incorrect in so many places its unreal. A film best watched with the brain turned off. Or not watched at all.

Better avoided.