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GazerRise Fantastic!

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

dragonflyblue3000 Wow. This one is bad even by SyFy's incredibly low standards. I'm pretty sure the number of snakes i counted and the number of snakes the characters say are on the sub are radically different, even accommodating the same snake showing up in multiple scenes. And subs apparently are run by eight-man crews. And...sort of spoiler...if you are going to electrocute a snake by sticking a live cable in its mouth, don't hold onto the snake's neck while you are doing it or letting it lay on top of you while you do it, and don't then drop the live cable on a metal floor that you are still lying on. I think that could be a bit worse than dying by snake bite. As a point of comparison, this is actually worse than Ice Spiders, and I wasn't sure anything could be worse than that.

Paul Andrews Silent Venom starts on Manku Island in the East China Sea where military research scientist Dr. Andrea Swanson (Krista Allen) & her assistant Jake Goldin (Louis Mandylor) have been breeding local radiation infected Snakes with Pit Vipers to produce angry killer mutant Snakes some of which are huge. The Chinese authorities seem to have caught on to what's going on & the top brass back in the US send a submarine in on a rescue mission before the Chinese get there, Lt. Commander James O'Neill (Luke Perry) gets the job done & with Dr. Swanson, her assistant Jake & a container full of twenty deadly Snakes on-board his submarine sets off home. However a stupid sailor opens the container full of deadly Snakes & lets them loose, the Snakes quickly start attacking the crew who all die because of the deadly venom. With the Chinese military above them, the deep blue sea all around them & trapped inside a submarine full of deadly Snakes the odds of survival are not good...Directed by Fred Olen Ray this apparently had the working title Recoil & has a TV title of Sea Snakes although under whatever title you see it this is a really bad 'Creature Feature' that seems to want to rip-off Snakes on a Plane (2006) as it substitutes a plane for a submarine even if it did come three years too late to cash-in on the Hollywood flick. Silent Venom is our typical awful 'Creature Feature' only set on a submarine, the very start of the film features a giant Snake but the majority of the rest of it just features ordinary sized ones that just slither around & really don't do anything else apart from bite the odd crew member. Most of the clichés are here, the military experiments gone wrong (although I am at a loss to see what purpose these experiments could have had in the first place), a scientist, a leading military officer, the isolated location, the monster/animal/insect threat & there's even a bit of time for some awful dramatics in the style of The Hunt for Red October (1990) as there's a bit of warmongering between US & Chinese submarines although this angle is really pathetic as we never see any Chinese submarine or crew or learn what their plan is as it's all relayed through dull exposition scenes on the US submarine. At just over 80 odd minutes Silent Venom feels longer, it has no pace or excitement & even as a bad 'Creature Feature' this is awful stuff with next to nothing happening & a forgettable climax.The Snakes used here are mostly real & they offer up no threat at all, they seem totally disinterested in doing anything other than just slithering across the floor & it's almost laughable to see the actor's trying to act scared of them when the Snakes appear completely harmless. When CGI computer effects are used they are predictably terrible & unintentionally funny. There's zero gore, the Snakes just bite people & then they die. Krista Allan talks about taking a shower but she never does on screen therefore there is nudity either. Silent Vanom has no scares, no atmosphere & the cramped conditions of a submarine are not utilized at all & the whole thing just feels below par like no-one was interested in making a good film. Wouldn't firing guns in an enclosed space like a submarine be a very dangerous thing to do? No-one here seems bothered about any potential hull breach.The IMDb reckons Silent Venom had a budget of about $2,000,000 which sounds like a lot of money for such a rubbishy film, in fact I don't think there's any way Silent Venom would have cost even half that much. Krista Allen looks quite cute & what on Earth is one time Oscar nominated actor Tom Berenger doing in a film as bad as this?Silent Venom is a really awful 'Creature Feature' of the worst kind, it's a total rip-off of a much better film & it's not even fun, there's no gore or nudity & the plot is dull. One to avoid unless your a die hard 'Creature Feature' fanatic or just plain desperate.

Mo (Mublumm@aol.com) Okay, so maybe the plot was silly, but watching it at 2:00 AM on a real fuzzy screen made it believable. I watched this for Luke Perry, I enjoy his acting and here was no different. Krista Allen is a cute and fun and... well, okay I'll come out and say it, I enjoyed this movie. I guess since I only watch a movie every month or so, I don't experience much. Only thing I would have liked to see was when Luke Perry's character was about to board the plane it would have been funny if they told him the in-flight movie was Snakes on a Plane. Regardless, fun movie, don't take it too seriously and you may just find yourself caught up in it.

dbborroughs Fred Olin Ray with Luke Perry and Tom Berenger is what amounts to "Snakes on a Sub". the plot has a decommissioned sub going to rescue a research team from an island. The crew is unaware that the people they are rescuing are doing research with poisonous snakes, and that the snakes will inevitably get out at the worst possible time.How many films have there been with computer generated snakes over the last couple of years. Too many if you ask me, I'm guessing that the effects supply store had a fire sale and every low budget producer bought a snake program. That said as these sort of dumb films go this film is pretty good. Of course you'll have to over look a couple of logic gaps the size of Montana but assuming you can do that you might enjoy yourself. Actually if you watch this with friends in a witty mood, you'll have an even better time.