If you want see a really scary monster movie. This is the one to see. This is one of the scariest movies made before 2004. Anacondas The hunt for the blood Orchid is scarier. But still this a very scary movie. I don't care what the silly critics say. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. Some people go to the Amazon in make a nature documentary. There running to some very big Anacondas. This a very scary movie. See it. Jennifer Lopez is a great actress. Ice Cube is a great actor. Eric S.t.o.l.t.z is a great actor. Jon V.o.i.g.h.t is a great actor. All the Anaconda movies are must sees.

Heading into the Amazon, a documentary team studying a long-lost tribe runs afoul of a hunter searching for a legendary anaconda and are forced to help him track the deadly creature.This was a decent and quite enjoyable creature feature. One of the better features here is the rather impressive pace that runs throughout here, as this one runs along pretty quickly with the introduction getting started immediately, picking up the hunter is right after that and the snake attacks carry the action throughout the rest of the film. Those action scenes are all quite fun, from the opening poacher attack, the search on the abandoned boat and the first battle with the creature as they try to wrangle the water-bound snake from their boat only for the resulting chaos it it's escape to set the stage for its' later scenes. That is the film's best part which is the final half hour as there's a large amount of ambushes and attacks here, from the trap at the waterfall where there's the fun water-chase with the creature coming after the swimmers in the water trying to dislodge the boat before finally getting to the spectacular waterfall confrontation catching the fleeing victim in mid-air before crashing into the boat below to the greater fun of the big chase through the abandoned warehouse. From the hunter's trap and eventual escape to running through the different levels with the creature continually crashing through the surroundings and finally getting rid of the massive snake in a fiery blast, this packs a large amount of action, suspense and rather impressive moments into it. Along with the enjoyable animatronic special effects for the snake, these are more than enough to hold off the few flaws in here. One of the bigger flaws is the fact that the first half here plays off as more of an adventure film about the exploration of the Amazon who stumbles upon a suspicious snake-hunter who alters their course for his own needs. None of this is handled with the sense of urgency in getting the snake out in a film about a giant killer snake as it moves the film along the needles detours simply to get the point across aren't all that tied into the exploits of a creature feature. There's also the films' tendency to go a little overboard with the special effects here as the use of the CGI snake isn't nearly as convincing as the puppets, act way too slick and have very little depth to it as the performed actions during these scenes give away its' origins. It's not enough to hold this one down, but the other problems here is where the flaws are.Rated PG-13: Violence, Graphic Language and some mild animal deaths.

At one time Werner Herzog tried to bring opera/commerce to the jungles of the Amazon with his film Fitzcarraldo, which featured as its primary set piece a boat being dragged over a mountain side. Gone are those days; indeed fifteen years after that in 1997 audiences got just a quick scene of opera being blared in the jungle - this comes after Ice Cube's "hippity hop" has played, which actually isn't that bad - while Jon Voight hijacks a small boat of documentary filmmakers (through stealth) to hunt after giant snakes. So it goes.Anaconda was a movie I watched many times when it was on HBO. I probably recognized then it was trash, but it was highly watchable trash, with convincing performances (for what they're asked to do) and some high-grade cheesy lines and mannerisms. Seeing it again today, it holds up as a B-movie blow-out, and is dated mostly by its bad CGI of snakes and has one too many climaxes for comfort. It's one thing when Fatal Attraction does it, but this...It's highly mockable (i.e. Rifftrax took it on live this year), but perhaps the filmmakers knew it? The actors don't seem to, certainly not hapless Owen Wilson - or maybe Voight does, and in his way it's one of the few times, albeit in a total cartoonish performance where he has practically the same grimacing facial expression with Paraguaian accent from start to finish - and maybe that helps elevate it. It's still watchable... which is about the best to say about it, with some competent direction helping along the way - along with some befuddling choices like a Snake-POV camera.Maybe it's best today as a party movie: turn it on, have some brews, and laugh at how that snake just seems to keep coming back and back again (and if it's more than one giant snake, why is it such a big deal?) Oh well... sequels came of this as well.

Those who have Rated this a Bad Movie, and there are Legions, forgot how to have Fun at the Movies. There are Thrills and Chills in this Big-Budget B-Movie with Enough Self Deprecating Humor and Laughs at the Critics that have Laughed at this Elaborate Excursion along the Snake Like Amazon River. The Atmosphere of the Jungle Cruise is Filmed with a Colorful and Steamy Palette a Plenty. The Boat is Populated with all sorts of Characters, a Slice of Humanity that is Clichéd and Categorized as a Documentary Crew on the Hunt for Their Big Break.It's a Quirky Bunch, all Acted Appropriately within the Confines of the Corny Script. Jon Voight gets the Most Attention, as should be, because He is Him without a Soul. A "Failed" Seminary Student that was Seduced by the Most Symbolic of Satan and has Determined to Kill His Demon.Voight has a Good Time Overacting and with a Wink Delivers one of the Better Villains to "Grace" this Type of Cinematic Trash in a Long Time. He Literally Out Slimes the Anaconda. Nothing here is to be Taken Seriously and Snake Aficionados have Ranted All About its Scientific Inaccuracies. Really. This is a Monster Movie and Factual Representations are Thrown Overboard from the First Frame. Who Cares about the Silliness? It's All In for the Sake of Snake Entertainment.Underrated in the Extreme this is a Fantastic Fantasy Film that Delivers the Goods. Almost Everyone is Killed in the Most Horrific of Ways and even if They Survive it is Not Without an Experience of Exploitation that the Movie puts Them through. Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, Jonathan Hyde, and Ice Cube are along for the Ride of a Lifetime. See who Survives. Note...Forget the charmless Sequels.