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Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

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nuoipter termer Anaconda is a wonderful movie. These people travel through the waters of the Amazon Rainforest looking for a tribe to make a documentary about them. They run into a man who they rescue and he turns out to be a maniac who wants to catch an anaconda alive. The movie has great scenes that are very creepy and scary. The big anacondas in this are bigger, faster, and more aggressive than real green anacondas but that was necessary to make a good horror movie. Some of the great scenes are when you see the shape of a man inside a snake that ate him. And when you see a snake swallowing a man from inside the snake. It's as if the camera is inside the snake and you see it's mouth or throat open and the man go inside it. And when a baby anaconda wraps around a mans finger and tries to eat it.

jimbo-53-186511 A film crew sets sail along the Amazon to film a documentary on the 'People of the Mist'. Along the way they stumble across Paul Serone (Jon Voight) an expert 'snake trapper' who is stranded at the side of the river claiming that the propeller broke on his boat. Serone is seemingly helpful at the beginning, but as the journey unfolds his real 'persona' starts to come through putting the whole crew in danger.The premise for this film is good on paper and seems to be a cross between King Kong and Dead Calm. Unfortunately, it is more Dead Calm than King Kong (I didn't like Dead Calm, but this film is definitely worse). The film attempts to be thrilling and exciting the problem here is that you can predict the outcome of everything way before it happens meaning that there isn't really any suspense. The worst example of this is Serone's re-appearance after the surviving members of the crew thought they'd killed him (like a classic pantomime villain). The dialogue was fairly dull and clunky with only the odd exchange between Ice Cube and Jonathan Hyde resembling anything remotely funny or interesting.The writing in this film is at best inconsistent and at worst awful; as the narrative unfolds Serone starts to pick off the crew one by one, but early on Cale is on the verge of dying, but Serone opts to save him by cutting a hole in his throat or windpipe in order to allow the poison to seep out (I think), but why keep him alive? It may have been to buy Serone time to trick the crew into believing that he's directing the crew to a hospital, but it seemed a long winded and stupid way to co-ordinate his plan. It also means that he'll always have one more person that he needs to kill. Another good one is when he says that the snakes have heat sensors to enable them to be able to detect humans in the water, but yet Serone walks through the water himself at one point. If he knew that they could detect heat then why did he walk through the water himself and risk getting himself killed? Was Serone perhaps on a suicide mission or was that just a dumb piece of writing? I'm inclined to believe the latter.Voight was easily the best thing about this film; his constant mugging and grimacing in front of the camera was just a joy to watch. It's almost like he was saying to himself 'I'm too good for this trash' and he'd be right. I wonder if he'd modelled his own performance on that of Robert De Niro's performance in Cape Fear. The only other person who came close to being as good to Voight was Hyde but even he fell a long way short. The rest of the cast put in sub-par performances with many of the crew merely being fodder for the snakes.To sum it up then it's a pretty dreadful film with only Jon Voight attempting to give it any semblance of fun and excitement. Taking Voight out of the equation you're left with a film with very little else that's good about it.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Anaconda" is a 1997 movie directed by Luis Llosa. Almost 20 years ago,it somehow killed his career as a director as he was very prolific before that, but only directed one film afterward. He worked mostly as a producer since then. The writer team is the same as on the famous film "Top Gun" and they also did a sequel to this one here. "Anaconda" scored quite a few Razzie nominations (the Razzies got it wrong again, as they usually do), but I have to say I was occasionally entertained watching this and I would not even call it a guilty pleasure.It starts a bit randomly with Danny Trejo ("Machete") in the first scene committing suicide after the snake attacks him. Who he is or why he is shown we never find out. I am not sure if they just wanted him in there because he was famous (if he was?) or what was the whole purpose of that intro. Other than that, the film has a couple more well-known actors included: Anademy Award winner Jon Voight, Academy Award nominee Owen Wilson, Golden Globe nominees Eric Stoltz and (incredibly hot) Jennifer Lopez, rapper Ice Cube, Jonathan Hyde and Kari Wuhrer, who has been in quite a few (animal) horror films. The standout is Voight though, sporting a ponytail in this film and portraying a character at least as scary as the snake monster he is after. He saves one guy's life early in the film, but takes another later on. A true monster he plays here. So it was basically a fight of human beast vs. animal beast. And would you have guessed that swallowing a dangerous tropic bee can save your life from the Anaconda. It did for one character as he was in the cabin pretty much for the rest of the film afterward.Basically, the film is all about people being in the water and the dangerous situation with the audience wondering if the giant snake will appear or not. I thought this invisible danger was actually bigger than the real danger when the beast occurred. But that's usually the case for me that invisible danger works better to scare me. That is also why "The Blair Witch Project" had such an impact on me. One thing that surprised me is how Wilson's character becomes the aide to Voight so quickly in the film. Far too quickly for my taste. Anyway, maybe he saw a strong leader or father figure in him I guess and he was just easy to manipulate. Oh yeah and then there is also the bee scene I mentioned earlier. Man that was scary and gross when they get the insect out of the guy's mouth, probably tougher on my than the most snake scenes.What I liked was how they managed to show how everybody felt out of place in the jungle except Voight's character who was all home and natural in there. I am not sure if I liked the scene where the team try to trick Voight's character (and succeed), but the "A*shole in 1"-comment was kinda cool. What I did wonder was how Voight's character (after he seemed to be dead early) managed to get out of the water with the tranquilizer in his blood. That was not particularly realistic. And I was a bit surprised about how the snake always showed up where the team was.I liked about the film that, at 90 minutes including ending credits, it was not longer than it should have been and they kept it pretty much very essential. It was also not too difficult to create a connection with all the characters and quickly understand who is who, which is usually one of the most important things about a film. But that also could have been as I was quite familiar with most of the cast. However, I wished that maybe they would have gone for a slightly different ending in which the animal prevails and just kills everybody. Could have made for a nice change. Anyway, decent animal horror film. Recommended.

stevehorvath59-289-337240 I rated this movie with a 7 on a scale of 10 due to the special effects that were more than just great, but were fantastic! Mr. John Nelson deserves all the credit for his 3-d creature animation that made this B horror movie so life like and horrifying at the same time. The story starts out with a National Geographic Group's journey on the Amazon river in search of a lost tribe. During their journey up river, they pick-up a stranded boater played by John Voight, who is in search of a giant snake to claim for his fame. When the giant snake is located, the members of the group take sides for and against capturing the snake, but Voight claims victory. Soon after this, some people fall prey to the snake and the true sense of horror engulfs both the crew members and the viewers alike. I hope you'll enjoy the ride to the end of the movie!