The motion picture was well directed by Kevin Hooks -an usual TV movies director. Spectacular musical score by Stanley Clarke, being appropriately adjusted to action. Bruce Payne is excellent as the ruthless and extremely intelligent villainous, he plays -as always- magnificently a megalomaniac nasty. While on the plane Wesley Snipes reads the book 'The Art of War' Snipes later starred in the film ¨The art of war¨ (2000) that was loosely based on the book. Wesley Snipes is top-notch as an action hero, turning into tough action man in films of big budget, just like ¨Murder at 1600¨, ¨Money train¨, ¨US Marshall¨ and ¨Blade¨ trilogy however, nowadays, he only makes low/medium budget films as ¨Unstoppable¨, ¨The detonator¨, ¨7 seconds¨, ¨Chaos¨, ¨The marksman¨, among others.
This film Passenger 57 (1992) was scheduled to air on a Starz Entertainment Group channel the night of 9/11, what with the themes of terrorism on an airplane, the broadcast was obviously cancelled. It's a run-of-the-mill action film in which from the beginning to the ending the thriller and emotion is continuous. The film packs nonstop action, suspense, tension, lots of violence when the murders and fighting happen, being quite entertaining. Meanwhile, Cutter contacts with his airline chiefs (Tom Sizemore and Bruce Greenwood) who want to hide the events. Cutter must take action confronting the nasty criminal, developing a battle of wits between two charismatic opponents. He hijacks the crew and seizes control of it. Then, he finds himself accidentally trapped into the middle of an airline Jumbo hijacking executed by an arch-villain terrorist (Bruce Payne) who previously committed numerous terrorists acts. He embarks a large plane, L1011-500 "Tristar, assisted by beautiful air hostesses (two gorgeous flight attendants : Alex Datcher and Elizabeth Hurley, one of the earliest film roles). It's easy to knock action movies, especially if you prefer something with a bit of depth and believability, but even champions of the "big, cheesy action flick" are likely to come away from Passenger 57 feeling disappointed.John Cutter (Wesley Snipes) is an expert security agent who's still mourning the death his wife. Payne as the villain is as camp as Christmas hero Snipes plays it with utter indifference the plot rattles along with no rhyme or reason making it awfully hard to care about any of the protagonists and the climax is such a rushed muddle of a sequence that it comes over more as an anticlimax than anything. But even if you forgive its silliness, it isn't very entertaining on the level of "dumb fun". You know just from the plot synopsis that Passenger 57 is riddled with unlikely plot holes.
The one thing he doesn't reckon on is the presence of Passenger 57, maverick sky marshal John Cutter (Wesley Snipes), who knows a trick or two when it comes to dishing out pain to the bad guys. He plans to trade the safety of the passengers for his freedom. Inevitably, Rane escapes with the help of some of his accomplices, and within minutes he has control of the plane and the life of every passenger aboard.
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Someone in the corridors of power has rather foolishly allowed him to be transported aboard a regular passenger aircraft, full of normal, innocent members of society. The (somewhat unbelievable) plot has world-feared terrorist Charles Rane (Bruce Payne) being transported by plane to jail. If Die Hard was the sumptuous five-course meal of action movies, then Passenger 57 is the half-eaten, under-cooked bacon sandwich. The whole thing seems to have been made in great haste, with precious little attention to character, dialogue and plot.
Though it is fast-paced and action-packed, it just doesn't give the audience the pay-off they need. An incredibly brief, uninvolving and dumb thriller, Passenger 57 is a film that Wesley Snipes probably doesn't rank too highly on his CV.
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