Oh yeah and then there is also the bee scene I mentioned earlier. Anyway, maybe he saw a strong leader or father figure in him I guess and he was just easy to manipulate. One thing that surprised me is how Wilson's character becomes the aide to Voight so quickly in the film. That is also why "The Blair Witch Project" had such an impact on me. But that's usually the case for me that invisible danger works better to scare me. I thought this invisible danger was actually bigger than the real danger when the beast occurred. It did for one character as he was in the cabin pretty much for the rest of the film afterward.īasically, 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. And would you have guessed that swallowing a dangerous tropical bee can save your life from the Anaconda. So it was basically a fight of human beast vs. He saves one guy's life early in the film, but takes another later on. 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. Other than that, the film has a couple more well-known actors including Academy 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. 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. Who he is or why he is shown we never find out. It starts a bit randomly with Danny Trejo ("Machete") in the first scene committing suicide after the snake attacks him. "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. The writer team is the same from the famous film "Top Gun" and they also did a sequel to this one here. He worked mostly as a producer since then. Almost 20 years ago, it somehow killed his career as a director as he had been very prolific before that, but only directed one film afterward. "Anaconda" is a 1997 movie directed by Luis Llosa. To make things worse, the streaming site I found this on made me watch a music video by a whiny rapper called Pk3y before the film started.Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 6 / 10 Not as bad as they say it is With a terrible supporting cast comprising largely of local Romanian talent, diabolical special effects (the green screened backdrop used whenever someone is driving a vehicle is appalling), ridiculous creature design (in addition to a spiked tail, the snake also has glowing red areas around its head), and a script that rips off both Aliens (the mercs obviously inspired by that film's marines) and Predator (Amanda avoids being attacked when she is covered in mud), the film is barely watchable, its only plus points being some gore (severed limbs, decapitations, impalements) and the fact that Crystal Allen spends much of the time in a tight white vest. For reasons too convoluted to go into, the snake is over 60ft long and still growing and has a big spike on the end of its tail with which it impales its prey. The risible plot sees sexy blonde herpetologist Amanda Hayes (Crystal Allen) team up with ruthless hunter Hammett (David Hasselhoff) and a team of mercenaries to find and destroy a deadly snake that has escaped from a laboratory owned by terminally ill billionaire Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies), head of Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals. No famous faces would have been preferable. The original Anaconda was a fun B-movie bolstered by a good cast Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid was a more than serviceable sequel, despite zero star power Anacondas 3: Offspring is made-for-TV drivel shot in Romania where movie-making is cheap, and its stars are The Hoff and Gimli.
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