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Snakes on a Plane

R

Released Aug 18, 2006

1 hr. 45 min.

Mystery & Thriller

Action

Adventure

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69%

180 Reviews

Tomatometer

49%

250,000+ Ratings

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FBI agent Nelville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) boards a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a witness to trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate of deadly serpents in an attempt to kill the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.

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Critics Consensus

Snakes on a Plane lives up to its title, featuring snakes on a plane. It isn't perfect, but then again, it doesn't need to be.

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James B

It's extremely violent and disgusting and ensures viewers to have a fear of snakes and planes.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/10/24

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Terry S

Would not have enjoyed it nearly so much without Keenan Thompson !

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/23/23

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Hermione M

This is one of those terribly perfect and perfectly terrible movies that you love to hate watch.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/08/23

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DanTheMan 2

From the director who bought you the worst Final Destination movie, Snakes on a Plane is an exploitation flick that knows exactly what it wants to do and gets the job done expertly. It's not perfect and doesn't have to be, coupled with Samuel L. Jackson in tow; Jackson makes this movie far more than the disposable B-movie it was initially conceived as. He bestrides Snakes on a Plane with the authority of someone who knows the value of what he's appearing in with that signature fierce glimmer in his eye. Ridiculous in every sense of the word, Snakes on a Plane is nothing if not a riot with a few friends or after having down a couple of beers, yes it's stupid and yes it can be pretty sleep-inducing, but who honestly cares when it more than lives up to its title.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/05/23

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Andreas K

You get what it says. Snakes on an airplane, and Samuel L. Jackson as a cop in the middle of it. It's fun and entertaining, but in the end it's still not a good movie but absolute trash. And at this level there are actually slightly better representatives.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/26/23

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Justin T

I just watched a whole bunch of computer-generated snakes terrorise a flight. It was a wild flight. There isn't too much excitement as you are stuck on this small airplane for the majority of the movie. The snakes are not scary and the whole film, apart from some gross killing, is lacking any extreme violence. The action is strictly mediocre. Fun to watch but lacking any real substance at all and is often boring. This does not live up to the fun b-movie ride that it should have been.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/22/23

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David R. Ellis

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Samuel L. Jackson

Nelville Flynn

Kenan Thompson

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Julianna Margulies

Claire Miller

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Sean Jones

Mark Houghton

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

A solid little B-movie arriving cloaked in the dodgy garb of a fanboy phenomenon, Snakes on a Plane really ought to garner some sort of award for truth in advertising: It's exactly what it says it is and very little else.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 2, 2006

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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.

Aug 28, 2006

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

All those CGI snakes can be quite shudder-inducing. But there is also something cheerfully ridiculous in the way the film switches to rubber snakes for hand-to-hand combat.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 26, 2006

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

A catchphrase, a marketing triumph, a hipster phenomenon. Fortunately, it’s also a slyly entertaining flick divorced from all that.

Rated: B

Sep 20, 2022

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

So as a thriller/comedy/horror/survival mashup, “Snakes on a Plane” squeaks by simply because it unashamedly embraces its cheesiness and absurdity.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 25, 2022

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Stephen Silver

Tilt Magazine

An unforgettable phenomenon, based on a forgettable movie (15th anniversary)

Rated: 2/5

Aug 27, 2021

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Synopsis

FBI agent Nelville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) boards a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a witness to trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate of deadly serpents in an attempt to kill the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.

Director: David R. Ellis
Executive Producer: Stokely Chaffin, Penney Finkelman Cox, Justis Greene, Sandra Rabins, George Waud
Screenwriter: Sebastian Gutierrez, John Heffernan
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Production Co: New Line Cinema, Patchwork Productions
Rating: R (A Scene of Sexuality|A Scene of Drug Use|Intense Terror and Violence|Language)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 18, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $34.0M
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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