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.

I mainly watched this because I love Jennifer Lopez movies. I always like seeing her act. Ice Cube joins her in this movie, and I liked him alright, not the best, but he was OK. Jon Voight was pretty good in this movie, he played his menacing character well. The special effects were iffy, some shots looked fake, while others were just fine, so like i said, it's iffy. I did enjoy the scene where Jon Voight's character was eaten, that was fun and cool to see. Owen Wilson didn't really work well in this movie, I didn't enjoy his acting at all. Hid acting seemed kinda fake and phoned in. I expected to hate every second of this movie, but I was surprisingly entertained by it, especially through about the last half an hour or so. Jennifer Lopez and her love interest had really great chemistry too, they worked well together and you could totally buy their romance. Overall, this movie did end up entertaining me, and I was very pleased with the ending and the outcome of everything. This movie is really just mindless fun. If you can overlook Owen Wilson and a few shots of bad CGI, I think you should enjoy it just fine. 7/10 for Anaconda (1997).

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.

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.