“Money Plane” is probably the most ridiculous movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s like if you combined “Con Air” with a low-budget Steven Seagal movie. It knows how stupid, lazy and bad it is.
Professional thief Jack Reese (Adam Copeland) fails to steal a painting for ‘The Rumble’ (Kelsey Grammer “Down Periscope”). In order to repay the debt, Reese is sent to hijack the ‘Money Plane’. It’s an illegal casino flying over international waters for notorious criminals to bet on anything and everything (apparently you can even bet on a man having sex with an alligator).
Adam Copeland is better known as the wrestler ‘Edge’. His acting abilities are absolutely abysmal if this film is even vaguely representative of his skills. Denise Richards (“Starship Troopers”) and Thomas Jane (“The Punisher”) both appear and must have been desperate for the money. Kelsey Grammer is hilarious as The Rumble. We’re used to seeing him in tv sitcoms such as “Frasier” so to see him as the bad guy in a low-budget action movie is funny. He’s clearly having a blast with some of the stupidest dialog ever uttered in a movie. He’s the only good thing in the whole movie. Apart from Grammer, everybody is just awful.
“Money Plane” is a pretty anti-climactic action film. The few action sequences in it are so underwhelming. The C.G.I. blood looks so unconvincing. The whole premise of the illegal casino never lives up to its potential. This whole movie is a total mess and to be honest, the score would be even lower if it were not for Grammer’s performance. Remove that and you have a movie that is as bad as the worst movies of Steven Seagal. “Money Plane” is a monumentally bad film that has to be seen to be believed.