That precision applies only to the movie's setting up and timing of its shocks (including the requisite false alarms), not to the perfunctory human dramas stirring aboard the river barge whose population is severely depleted by journey'sĮnd.
Orchestral rushes in "Jaws") that "Anaconda" unfolds as a textbook action-adventure assignment. He pantingly describes as "the perfect killing machine."įorcing his mouth into an upside-down bow, narrowing and slightly crossing his eyes and speaking in a shrill ominous wheeze with an indeterminate accent, Voight parodies Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now" by way of "The Godfather."Īlthough the performance crosses the line from drama into farce, it defines the attitude of the movie, which is so self-consciously referential to earlier films (Randy Edelman's pulsing score virtually duplicates John Williams' stabbing Paraguayan nutcase whom the travelers pick up early on their expedition to film the legendary Shirishama Indians is a kind of B-movie Kurtz whose obsession with trapping anacondas has turned him into the human equivalent of a creature In its fury, it uproots the tree, sending it smashing onto a rickety riverboat carrying a documentary film crew.īut even scarier than any of the hissing animatronic creatures that rear up through the muck to pounce on the movie's hapless voyagers is the performance of Jon Voight, as Paul Sarone, a gun-toting, snake-obsessed man of the jungle. A fiendish anaconda - the world's thickest snake,Ī member of the boa family - coiled around a giant tree, darts out and snatches him in mid-fall. In a more gymnastic mode, there is the scene of a panic-stricken man clinging to the slippery rocks behind a waterfall, who loses his grip and plummets hundreds of feet into a gorge. This inside-the-beast view from the recesses of a monster's devouring gullet is the niftiest shot in Luis Llosa's "Anaconda," a trashily entertaining reptilian version of "Jaws" set in the steaming heart of the Not the worst film ever, but it’s really no great loss if you never, ever get to see it.Rom deep inside the scaly white throat of a voracious 40-foot snake, you can see the head of its human prey being inexorably sucked into the hot gaping mouth. Unfortunately it hasn’t aged well, which makes it very difficult to fully enjoy now however there’s very little evidence to suggest that the film was any good in the first place.
The amount of times someone has a gun pointed at the snake and fails to shoot slowly becomes ridiculous, to the point where you want the snake to eat every last one of them for being so damn stupid, but alas at least half of the crew survives.Īnaconda is a silly creature feature that’s relatively entertaining for all of about five minutes, until the stupid looking snake and the irritating cast wears thin. Yeah it’s huge, but in comparison to the likes of Jaws its head is tiny, and it turns out that killing it with a gun is fairly easy to do. The snake is far less formidable than other creatures because it’s killed pretty easily. Dancing in the shadow of Jaws, and according to a lot of feedback (mostly negative) Anaconda tried too hard to live up to its success and became one of many attempted creature features that slithered right under the radar. It’s the kind of mediocre cast that makes a film enjoyable but not particularly memorable. The performances are as you’d expect from a cast that includes Jennifer Lopez and a guy named ‘Ice Cube’ (seriously, what’s with that?) and while they’re not altogether that awful, they’re not brilliant either. Who knows, maybe it swallowed a Ferrari in a former life? The snake itself isn’t particularly scary looking and it attacks so fast that its speed is almost laughable. Anaconda has a lot of flaws and hasn’t aged too well. They let him on board but his innocent act is soon replaced by a vindictive hunter on a mission to grab himself a huge snake and make lots of money. While trying to shoot an amateur documentary about a small and rarely seen tribe, Terri Flores ( Jennifer Lopez) and her film crew find a stranded hunter who’s boat has broken down. That’s what a ‘national geographic’ film crew has to deal with when they’re taken hostage on their own boat by a crazy hunter and forced to assist him in hunting down a giant man eating serpent in the 1997 film Anaconda.
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Snakes make a lot of people’s skin crawl, but just imagine one that’s 40 foot long. But all Anaconda will take away is 89 precious minutes of your life.
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