There are a number of movie that involve giant man-eating snakes in movies today. In 1997, there was the movie Anaconda, which stars Jennifer Lopez as a person whose is the crew of a documentary in the Amazon. And then there was this movie, Boa. The movie takes place in the Antartica, where a prison named New Alcatraz, is settled there in the middle of snowy nowhere. The prison warden is played by Craig Wasson. The engineer crew of the prison suspects that a rock formation is in the cold, solid ice of Antartica. But, what they don't know is that the rock formation is actually a giant man-eating prehistoric snake. Boa is a very suspenseful horror thriller that I did enjoy because the snake looks good. I know you guys out there thinks that the snake sucks because it's look bad in CGI. The story I though was moderate. I thought the actors in the movie were very good. You have Dean Cain who plays scientist that knows that the Warden is not helping his guards kill this snake. I think to my opinion that Boa have a good plot, a nice cast and a very good set of special effects. I'm giving a thumbs up on Boa, because of the cast, special effects and the story. Thumbs Up for Boa. I really think that this movie was more good than Python. I really enjoy Python and I really dug right into Boa because I do enjoy snake films. If you enjoy watching snake films, Boa is right up your alley. ★★★ 3 stars.

This movie met all of my expectations. While it is certainly not something that I would have gone to a movie theater to see, I believe that it offers an enjoyable use of a couple hours.Since pretty much everyone before me has been ragging on it, I suppose I should say my piece.1. Dean Cain, while not in the Brad Pitt/Morgan Freeman category of actors, does offer a pretty solid character in most of his roles and this (in my view) is no exception. I think that his mannerisms were pretty natural considering he may as well have been sharing a row-boat with badger for how safe he was.2. A lot of people felt that the snake was poorly done, and perhaps they had higher definition on their TVs (which wouldn't surprise me). The scenes with this snake are very short and not very frequent. As far as problems, I would say that the biggest one is that somehow the scenes made the snake look smaller then it was suppose to be (comparing them against the size of the hole it made in a wall). The snake looked to me to be about three or four feet wide, and the hole in the wall was at least six feet in diameter (probebly more like eight).Sub Note: The movie indicates that this snake makes a tunnel through ice that is roughly wide enough for two grown men to walk through side by side, and is about 30 paces long. My imagination cannot accept that as a possibility (even a drill would take a very long time to force through that much ice), and that did kind of weaken the plot for me.3. Pretty much all of these characters are undeveloped. I am guessing that this became apparent to the director at some point, because there are poorly timed arguments between the two co-stars which were (in my view) an unsuccessful attempt at giving them substance beyond the monster experience.When I am going to watch a movie about a giant snake, I am basically more concerned with his eating habits then the character development. I suppose this is a large part of the reason that I enjoyed this movie, and a large part of the reason that it achieved a 7/10 from me.

1. There is no way in the world a maximum security prison to have only 13 personal including the engineers. No cook. No Janitor. Only the guards, the warden and the engineers.2. There is no way for an 80 feet's Boa to travel as fast as a F1 racing car on an empty hallway.3. There is no way for an airplane to reach certain destination without confirmation from the destination source.4. There is no way for an airplane to come to an isolate place where's the pilot himself have to fill the fuel them self. Refer to no:01.5. There is no way for the wife of the star to survive while the others which were trained arm personal, deadliest terrorists in the world died in an instants.6. There is no way for a snake / BOA to "eat" thru a 2 feet thick wall which suppose to take weeks for humans to drills thru with sophisticated drills.7. There is no way for a Snake to "eat" thru a military airplane which suppose to withstand thousands pounds of pressure.8. There is no way this movie suppose to be made.9. Do not rent / see / but this movie

It is incredibly disturbing to think that some people somewhere felt this was a movie worth making. They may even have been pleased with the finished product. They should be ashamed. Be VERY ashamed.The "plot" revolves around an internationally sanctioned top secret prison built, it would appear, to house those guilty of crimes against acting, with a special wing for bad accents (the "oirish" accent on display here makes Dennis Hopper's attempt in "Ticker" look good). The inmates promptly get together to explain their expertise. To counter the poor acting of the inmates, the prison staff are frighteningly bad actors to a man. Anyway, after some exposition, clumsily plonked in the middle of some dialogue, it is revealed that some drilling has hit a chamber full of pure nitrogen that can apparently support life for over 10,000,000 years or some such guff. This chamber is home to an 80ft snake (not sure what it has been feeding on all that time.) which promptly goes on a rampage, wiping out appalling actors roughly in order of how much they stink.A quick word about the script, a tip for budding writers, if you don't have enough material, pad it out by having the characters repeat their lines ALL THE TIME.Anyway, into the mix come the most ineffective, badly organised and generally incompetent special forces team in celluloid history who, for no discernible reason, drag along Dean Cain and his wife, who, we are led to believe, are palaeontologists (suspension of disbelief is required here.) This provides more fodder for the dreadfully cheap CGI snake, which appears to have been knocked up on someone's Commodore 64. **POSSIBLE SPOILERS, BUT IF THIS RUINS THE FILM FOR YOU, YOU NEED HELP!**More people die, stuff happens, none of the prisoners use any of their expertise, there are no shocks or surprises, amazingly (and criminally), the worst actor in the film survives. And, as the credits roll, it dawns on you... you have actually wasted 90 minutes of your life watching with the sort of morbid compulsion that greets a serious accident. Once it is over you may feel somehow cheapened and dirty and racked with guilt, and rightly so, consider what you have done, you have given these people an audience, you are encouraging them to churn out more films like this. Be ashamed. Be VERY VERY ashamed.