Anaconda
It will take your breath away.
A film crew headed by anthropologist Steve Cale and director Terri Flores journey through a river to find a mysterious Indian tribe and shoot a documentary on them. They save a guy called Paul Sarone from a sinking boat. He offers to help in their search for the tribe, but he is actually a snake-hunter looking for legendary anaconda snake, and when Cale is bitten by some tropical insect, Sarone takes over the boat.
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Not that good. - sampid
The unconvincing effects are matched by some equally unconvincing acting. Jennifer Lopez has given some reasonably good performances in films such as "Angel Eyes" or "Maid in Manhattan", but at her worst she can be dreadful, and here she is at her very worst, worse even than in "Enough", which is saying something. She is totally wooden in this film, wandering though it as though someone (probably her accountant) had suggested that she diversify her career by branching out into acting, without actually explaining to her what acting involves.Bad - Pumon
I just watched this movie on tv the other night and thought I would review it on Zip. I think this is one of Jennifer Lopez's earlier films and kinda funnily it could be one of her better acting performances. That being said the movie is not good, at all. The basic premise is Giant anaconda stalking and killing pplA Weak, Silly Little Movie - revsdd
After a somewhat promising start, this movie fizzled out into sheer silliness, replete with poorly developed, one dimensional characters and a horrendously fake-looking snake as the man-eating monster. The promise of the beginning revolved around two things: a surprisingly effective written scroll to open, which describes in graphic detail what anacondas are and what they're capable of, and an unnerving scene of someone obviously under attack from an unseen predator. Those two things combined seemed to set the stage for a rather fun and exciting and potentially scary movie. Unfortunately, at that point the main characters began to be introduced, and we got pulled into a rather silly plot and nothing much about this seemed believable from that point on.
The plot - as far as it goes - revolves around an expedition into the Amazon jungles to shoot a documentary about a mysterious tribe, and the relationships between the various folks in the party, headed by Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube. The jungle setting could have been used to better effect, and the truth is that none of the characters are very interesting. Jon Voight eventually comes on board as the somewhat obsessed snake- chaser who'll happily let everyone die in order to get his prize. The movie is replete with breathtaking lines such as "the jungle makes me horny" (spoken by Owen Wilson's Gary in a very forgettable performance) and then of course there's Voight's Sarone shouting at Lopez's Terri "you killed my wild snake." Perhaps the dumbest scene of the movie was the regurgitation scene, in which Sarone (having been swallowed by the snake a while before) gets regurgitated in front of Terri and proceeds to playfully wink at her while being partially digested and covered in snake slime from the innards of the beast. The biggest weaknesses of the movie, though, are the truly fake looking snake and the lack of any real scares in this.
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Not that good. - sampid
The unconvincing effects are matched by some equally unconvincing acting. Jennifer Lopez has given some reasonably good performances in films such as "Angel Eyes" or "Maid in Manhattan", but at her worst she can be dreadful, and here she is at her very worst, ...Bad - Pumon
I just watched this movie on tv the other night and thought I would review it on Zip. I think this is one of Jennifer Lopez's earlier films and kinda funnily it could be one of her better acting performances. That being said the movie is not good, at all. ...A Weak, Silly Little Movie - revsdd
After a somewhat promising start, this movie fizzled out into sheer silliness, replete with poorly developed, one dimensional characters and a horrendously fake-looking snake as the man-eating monster. The promise of the beginning revolved around two things: ...