Wesley Snipes got his big action break in Kevin Hooks’ PASSENGER 57, an airplane heist movie about a security specialist and recent widower pulled back into the job to thwart an international terrorist’s airborne escape plan. Snipes seems really comfortable as not-Bruce Willis, punching and kicking his way through bad guys in the clouds and on the ground alike.
In this episode, we chat about Snipes’s performance, the blackness of his unwilling hero John Cutter, the cast (including Michael Horse, Elizabeth Hurley, and Bruce Payne) and how nice it is when a movie clearly knows its lane.
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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.
Timestamps
0:00 - Episode 327: PASSENGER 57 (1992)
2:40 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)
5:49 - The virtues of being a DIE HARD (1988)-lite
13:52 - Wesley Snipes’s performance and the “blackness” of John Cutter
33:57 - The pacing
46:05 - The Junk Drawer
54:38 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1992
56:12 - Cody's Noteys: The Trylove Movie Draft: 1992
