![]() ![]() Well I’m not sure he should be so cocky with his gambling analogies, because he’s experiencing some bad fuckin luck today. But you remember how the one line that you remember from this movie is Wesley’s piece of racially charged gaming advice? (Also it shows how he’s different from Seagal, the Boz,Trejo and most other action heroes, who always successfully foil the convenience/liquor/grocery store robberies that happen in their presence.)Ĭutter decides to accept his old friend Sly Dilvecchio (Tom Sizemore)’s offer to become the Vice President of Anti-Terrorism for Atlantic International Airlines, and he takes a flight to Los Angeles to make it official. So now we know why he’s sad, why he’s sensitive about heroics during hostage situations and also that he kicks ass and looks cool doing it. Then an economical montage tells us everything we need to know about him as an action hero: he kneels and burns incense at a shrine (just like Blade), then practices boxing and kickboxing, but this is intercut with flashbacks to the time he tried to foil a convenience store robbery and got his wife killed. One way you know this Charles Rane guy is an asshole is he asks “Have I made myself clear?” I mean, is there any situation where you can ask someone “Have I made myself clear?” and you’re not a fuckin asshole? I don’t think there is.Īfter an “actually they’re only filming a movie” type fakeout that makes it seem like Wesley is a hijacker, we find out that he’s actually John Cutter, volatile airline security expert. (Let me tell you man, that’s no way to live.) But then he realizes the FBI is on to him, so he makes a run for it and fails. ![]() When we first meet Rane he’s about to do go under the knife, and for security reasons he insists on no anesthetic. He’s escaped capture by repeatedly getting plastic surgery, just like Parker between his first two books, or Michael Knight’s evil cousin Garth. I mean, it’s no BLADE obviously, but it’s better than ART OF WAR 1-2.įirst we meet our poor man’s Hans Grueber, though: Bruce Payne as the infamous airplane bomber Charles “Rane of Terror” Rane. I always saw it as a pretty eventless poor man’s DIE HARD with one great line for the trailer, but now I can respect it as a solid, no-frills tribute to the abilities of Wesley Snipes. This is the third time I’ve seen PASSENGER 57, but the first time I properly appreciated it. ![]() I have to thank you guys, because I only watched this because it was rated #1 in the suggestions, and I figured I owed it to everybody to do something with those. ![]()
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