The titular passenger in Passenger 57 is John Cutter (Snipes), number 57 on the manifest of anĪtlantic International Airlines flight from Miami to Los Angeles. The short-lived but memorable Last Resort. Hooks has also produced several series, including In this century, he has directed an impressive list of TV projects including 24, NYPDīlue, Bones and Castle, among many others. Elsewhere), then moved into feature films in the One of Hollywood's most prolific African-American directors, Hooks learned hisĬraft in Eighties TV (beginning with St. Passenger 57 was also an important film for its director, Kevin Hooks, who was making his Train)-Snipes began the trilogy of Blade films inīlade became his signature role. After a series of other action films-some successful ( Demolition Man), some not ( Money ![]() Price), the film turned a profit at the box office and established Snipes's credibility as an action ![]() (helped, in no small measure, because Snipes did not command anywhere near Stallone's asking Passenger 57 was originally intended for Sylvester Stallone, whose fingerprint remains on theįilm in the name of Tom Sizemore's character, Sly Delvecchio. Harrelson, and the action vehicle, Passenger 57. The ruthless, charismatic drug lord, Nino Brown, in Newĭemonstrated his range in the successful buddy comedy, White Man Can't Jump, with Woody Where Smith's breakthrough role was as the fast-talking, womanizing cop, Mike Lowry in Bad Boys, Snipes first caught the world's attention as ![]() Were always coiled, intense and dangerous. Snipes could trade quips with the best of them, but his characters Still, Snipes never had the indefinable "likability" factor Nineties he was a major movie star whose trajectory appeared, at least for a time, to be on a Reviewed by Michael Reuben, July 31, 2013Ī prison sentence for tax evasion may have interrupted Wesley Snipes's career, but in the Looks Like He Picked the Wrong Day to Hijack a Plane
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