Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Indieshack All movies in my view should be around 90 minutes or so tops, and this one comes in at that. Snipes at his peak, nicely directed action movie.

bkoganbing Playing the title role in Passenger 57 is airline security expert Wesley Snipes who is on board a flight where known terrorist Bruce Payne is being transported to face justice. Only Payne has other ideas. A whole flock of his confederates are on the flight including one of the stewardesses Elizabeth Hurley. She's a pretty deadly all on her own.Payne has some scheme afoot and needs the plane for more than just escape. He has to have the plane landed to refuel.My sheer dumb luck as Snipes is heeding nature's call Payne and his crew miss him. At this point it becomes a deadly cat and mouse game between Payne and Snipes with each exchanging the role of cat and mouse at different points of the film.Action fans will have no cause for complaint from Passenger 57. The tension is at times overwhelming. It always is in airline films where passengers are helpless thousands of feet above the ground and have no choice but to trust the professionals. This is inherent in every film about an airline flight going back to The High And The Mighty and much further than that.Snipes and Payne are an evenly matched set of adversaries. Passenger 57 is a tension filled movie right up the end.

videorama-759-859391 Although it's a quite well executed show with variety too, where we're not just in the air for a long time, Passenger 57 doesn't achieve all it, sets out to. Snipes is solid, while great British character actor, Brice Payne, is menacingly unforgettable, a guy you don't up close to, or personal with. Also unforgettable as his girlfriend, stewardess, is Hurley who doesn't do a bad job either, playing bad good. The film feels like it's been cut short somewhere, and does share quite a few faults, that de cheapens to it a cheesy level, but the film is a lot of fun. Too is watching Snipes rip into Payne, the fight near the end I would of loved to have been longer. What I liked especially, before take off, is a number of scenes, as too a flashback one, involving Snipes's wife who was killed in a liquor store hold up, hence, why he got into the business of counteract terrorism. An early scene is a great humorous and demonstrative show of plane security. A couple of other scenes, we gain a little knowledge into terrorism. Here's some far fetched scenes: 1. Payne jumping out of a window, from about four stories up, and managing to still get up 2. The plane of passengers not reacting to the sound of sirens outsides, as if they don't exist. 3. Snipes rolling onto the tarmac in the path of one of the wheels but avoiding it. 4. Snipes grabbing a bag of popcorn at the carnival, without paying while in full view of the proprietor. Want me to go on. And why the hell would you have a carnival with rides and that, next to a frickin' airport. And how they got away at the end, when back on the ground, telling the news, it was all a safety anti terrorism experiment I couldn't believe. But hey, lets avoid all that, and just get caught up, watching Snipes kick arse, in this not badly made, by very cheesy flick. An addictive cheese at that.

Scott LeBrun Wesley Snipes proved himself a highly capable action movie hero with this early vehicle. It's no great shakes when it comes to the script or most of the characters, but director Kevin Hooks and his filmmaking team are good at giving this slick thriller an impressive pace and decent set pieces. One may notice that the running time is very short (84 minutes). So there's not a lot of filler, or fooling around, just a generous dose of escapist entertainment.Snipes plays John Cutter, an airline security specialist who conveniently happens to be on the same flight as a notorious terrorist, Charles Rane (who's played for maximum iciness and creepiness by a steely-eyed Bruce Payne). You guessed it: Rane has compatriots aboard the plane who help him to escape his FBI escorts and take control of the plane. From there, the action doesn't stop, and actually alternates between scenes on the ground and in the air. Cutter doesn't really have many allies, so the story does amount to a fairly typical "Die Hard" type derivation.The charismatic Snipes and the dastardly Payne are well supported by a bunch of familiar faces. Tom Sizemore is quite engaging as Cutters' upbeat, chatty pal Sly Delvecchio. Co-star Robert Hooks, who plays FBI agent Henderson, is the father of the director; also appearing are ever reliable Bruce Greenwood, lovely Elizabeth Hurley, an amusing Ernie Lively as a hayseed police chief, Alex Datcher as the sexy stewardess - excuse me, flight attendant - who verbally spars with Cutter. Michael Horse, Marc Macaulay, and William Edward Roberts play Ranes' various henchmen.With a high energy and funky score by Stanley Clarke as accompaniment, "Passenger 57" is solid entertainment for the undemanding action fan, with a hero you can root for and villains whom you can enjoy hating. Rane does show himself to be thoroughly evil when he murders an innocent passenger. The climactic action is not to be believed; it is ridiculous and over-the-top, but, really, who cares that much when all is said and done? Note that Snipes is at one point reading "The Art of War"; eight years later he'd be starring in a movie by the same name.Seven out of 10.