It's got snakes, it's got a plane. There are snakes on the plane. It's about as simple as that. Samuel L Jackson plays FBI Agent Nelville Flynn. His job is to get a witness to the murder of a US prosecutor to LA to testify. The bad guys don't want this to happen, so they load a time capsule full of poisonous snakes and a box of Hawaiian garlands laced with snake hate-pheremone into the cargo bay. Not a bomb or a can of poisonous gas or a sniper in LA, but poisonous snakes. That's why bad guys never succeed in action movies. When the plan's in the air, the snakes are released and poison-spitting, hissing carnage ensues.
SOAP is an action movie in the vein of 70's disaster flics like The Towering Inferno, Airport or The Poseidon Adventure, only this time, there's snakes.
Ticking all the right boxes, there are one-liners, embarrassing deaths, nasty guys getting their come-uppance (throwing a cute girl's tiny dog to a Boa Constrictor does not enhance your survival chances in this sort of film), famous and ironic last words and bad guys coming good. A classic tale of trial over adversity. With snakes. On a plane.
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