No movie could possibly live up to the hype that preceded this prefabricated exploitation thriller, which mashes up classic airplane-disaster-movie tropes — think THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY (1954), ZERO HOUR (1957) or AIRPORT 1975 (1974) — and venomous snakes. Desperate to nail sadistic crime lord Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson), FBI agent Neville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) persuades surfer dude Sean (Nathan Phillips), who had the misfortune to see Kim murder a crusading attorney in Hawaii's Kaena Point State Park, to testify in a Los Angeles courtroom. To keep the notoriously corrupt Honolulu police from tipping off Kim, Flynn books a private jet, then hustles Sean aboard a co...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins