That isn't the end though as his people still on the plane threaten to kill more hostages if he isn't freed.
While the plane is on the ground Rane and some of his associates get off the plane and flee to a local fair ground where after a bit more fighting he is captured again. This necessitates landing at a small airfield in Louisiana where Cutter jumps from the plane and is promptly detained by the local police who are stereotypical incompetent Southern yokels. He escapes his captors then flees to the plane's storage area where he accesses the avionics bay and forces the plane to dump fuel. He manages to call the airline and alert them about the hijacking before being briefly captured. Luckily they hadn't counted on John Cutter the airline's new security expert being on board. Of course Rane's people are on the plane amongst both passengers and crew and shortly after take off they seize the plane. Obviously the best way to transport one of the world's most wanting criminals across the US is to put him on a commercial flight with a couple of marshals. now they just have to get him to Los Angeles for trial. Before the operation can start the police move in and Rane attempts to escape but is eventually captured. The film opens with Charles Rane in an operating theatre awaiting plastic surgery, we know he is somewhat insane as he insists in having no anaesthetic. We are told who is bad and who is good almost as soon as their character appears. For a thriller this is also lacking in any twists whatsoever. This isn't a bad film but it isn't exactly a great film either Wesley Snipes does a good job as airline security expert John Cutter who is in the wrong place at the right time, Bruce Payne is okay as the psychotic terrorist and Alex Datcher is fairly forgettable as the feisty stewardess. The film will appeal to action genre enthusiasts. Robert Hooks, who plays FBI agent Dwight Henderson in the film, is the father of director Kevin Hooks.
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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). John Cutter (Wesley Snipes) is an expert security agent who's still mourning the death his wife.
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