The year is 1857, and the study of geology is beginning to make serious inroads into areas of religious doctrine. Worse, they're forced to carry three temperamental Englishmen bound for Tasmania on a mission to discover the exact location of the Garden of Eden. Yet somehow in the process, he and his crew end up weighing anchor for Australia. One of the narrators of Matthew Kneale's ambitious historical novel English Passengers has more modest aspirations: Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy, and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. You can't go wrong with the consistently entertaining "Passenger 57".Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India when he ran full-tilt boogie into the Americas.
This entry might not make much of the dent in Snipes' portfolio, but for the undemanding just wanting some simple action moving at a brisk pace with some venomously psychotic villain performances (led by the exceptional Bruce Payne and an early part for Elizabeth Hurley) and fine support (Tom Sizemore and Ernie Lively).
Churning out films like "White Men Can't Jump", "Boiling Point", "Rising Sun", "Demolition Man" and "Drop Zone".
Around this time Snipes had become somewhat of a household name and a Hollywood banker with movie fans. While it might be systematic in its execution (exciting combat where characters get caught, escape, get caught and escape again), but a confident Snipes makes light work of the slight and clichéd material (where we get the usual character/s with a brooding past) to deliver cracking blows taking out the terrorists one-by-one and sharp-one liners ("Always bet on black"). Durable direction along with Mark Irwin's crisp photography and exhilarating stunt-work (the opening chase sequence). However on board happens to be an airline security specialist who goes about making their life's hell. A captive terrorist being transported on an aircraft by the FBI is violently freed by his associates and they take the plane hostage. The tag "Die Hard" on a plane is pretty much true when describing this uninspired Wesley Snipes action vehicle of the early nineties.
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