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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0687797110398
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: First Look Pictures
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Look Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 51619
Studio: First Look Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 09, 2005
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In the amazon jungle a pharmaceutical team searches for the secret to extending life. After their helipcopter crashes the team & their guide encounters a terror unknown to modern man a terror which not only decimates their team but has left a trail of carnage in its path. Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 03/21/2006 Starring: Stephen Baldwin Run time: 97 minutes Rating: R
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Rating:  - Sssssssssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Given that Snake Man was only enticing enough to get the third best Baldwin (Stephen Baldwin) it shouldn't be surprising that the rest of the movie is third-rate. From a helicopter scene that looks like a cartoon, to a subway-sized, multi-headed papier-mâché snake, it is eminently clear that very minimal effort was expelled while during this movie's conception and creation.
As far as the movie goes, it's basically an Anaconda rip-off. A group of scientists led by a helicopter pilot named Matt (Baldwin) go to Brazil to ostensibly look for the Jaguar villagers and other pointless nonsense. During the trip, the horrible CGI helicopter gets struck by equally atrocious CGI lightning, and the helicopter plummets to the jungle floor in the least believable crash since any "Dukes of Hazzard" episode. During this sequence Matt is calm, cool, and collected (probably more to do with Baldwin #3's lack of acting ability than plot device). Eventually they meet up with the Jaguar villagers, a comical collection of assorted aborigines randomly picked for no other reason than the fact that they look completely dissimilar and anything better would steal what little thunder the rest of the movie can muster. Matt begins speaking Jaguar language with the "village people"(tm), and we learn his parents were anthropologists in the area, he's an expert in hand-to-hand combat, and he's evidently a knife-throwing champion.
The rest of the movie is nothing but bad special effects, ridiculous ... Read More
Rating:  - "You Come For The Gift?"
Great. Another giant snake movie. This one is generally much more trying than the "Anaconda" or "Python" films, and has among the worst CGI I have ever seen in my life. I really shouldn't be too shocked...as soon as I saw Boaz Davidson's producer credit I knew this would be tough slogging.
The film, set in Brazil and actually made there (for which I give the production team credit), is a story of mysterious snake people who live for hundreds of years and the evil corporate goons who want to steal and exploit their secret. While "Anaconda" and "Python" (and other similar movies) have had menacingly large snakes, here the producers pull out all the stops and devise a humongous seven-headed snake to guard the secret of immortality. Stephen Baldwin is staggeringly banal in the lead role, but is frequently upstaged in the overacting department by most of the supporting cast, particularly Larry Day.
The film opens with a helicopter crash in a jungle (which will seem very familiar to Boaz Davidson aficionados), and progresses to scientists being tormented by the snake with homage paid to many creature features before. The heroine, Susan, is rapidly kidnapped by the natives, and tries to free herself by making a deal with her evil capitalist bosses to return a mummy that was taken from the snake people. Needless to say, this doesn't work out as she expected, and results in a mini invasion of evil corporate types, which, of course, as any experienced viewer of this genre grasps means ... Read More
Rating:  - Watchable mutant reptile movie
When a mummified body is unearthed deep in the Amazon rainforest ,more than simple scientific and archaelogical curiosity is aroused as it is discovered to be the remains of a man well over 200 years old at the time of his demise .An expedition is mounted to discover the tribe of which the deceased was a member and to see if they too are blessed with this type of longevity .The motive is more commercial than scientific -after all such a discovery would have major implications in our youth obsessed culture
Things quickly begin to go wrong .The helicopter -piloted by a grungy looking Stephen Baldwin -crashes during a storm ,and the survivors come under attack from a gigantic ,hydra-headed snake which devours those in its path with considerable assiduity.
Add to this the enmity of a local tribe ,the Snake People,which worships the creature and things are not looking good for our intrepid ,and internicine group ,which spends almost as much time quarelling amongst itself as it does with trying to escape from their predicament
Things get even more complicated when the boss of the outfit sponsoring the expedition arrives with mercenaries in tow intending to get the secret by hook or by crook
The effects are variable but mostly passs muster and the acting is adequate .It is nothing more than a post-pub time filler and on this level works moderately well but alas ,the killer snake movie is still waiting for its first high quality product
Rating: - Anaconda 1 and 2
An expedition in the Amazon finds a sarcophagus with a preserved mummy inside. Research shows the Amazon Man died when he was more than 300 years old. This sends a new team to find the source of the longevity and a now suspected lost tribe. The team, mostly made up of typical greed-oriented characters, join a helicopter pilot (Baldwin) and set off into the jungle. The team already there gets attacked while the new team's helicopter crashes. Luckily the pilot just happens to speak Jaguar and enlists aid from the Jaguar people.
Soon we meet the lost tribe and see lots of giant snake attacks. The tribe is interesting. White man only just theorized that such a tribe could exist and yet the chief speaks English (the Jaguar people who trade with Western civilization only speak their own language). This lost tribe is the Snake People and they worship Naga, a snake god. They also hold the secret of longevity which is a gift to the Snake People. Add greed, a giant snake that may have more than one head (or may be multiple snakes as the images are contradictory), a tribe trying to protect itself and a pair of characters that actually care what is going on and you get a silly, schlocky monster film. You'll have to watch to find out who survives.
Watching this movie is like watching both Anaconda movies at once. We have the lost tribe of the first movie and the longevity and multiple snakes of the second. Baldwin plays a character who looks and sounds a lot like Voight's character ... Read More
Rating: - had to interject here...
Okay, I'm sorry but did that kid just say that this was one of the better monster movies he has seen. Hey kid, go rent Relic.
Thats a good monster movie with a fairly believable beastie.
The monster in this movie looks like something doctored up for a cgi spot on a Fruit Loops commercial. The acting is relatively decent for a B movie, but the plot is ridiculous and shallow. The love scenes are contrived and the whole movie collapses under its own false pretentions.
This movie is a must no- see.
Thank you for your time and believe me, you will thank me for mine.
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