The last years of Roy Scheider's life had him making one direct-to-video movie after another. Most of them were awful, and "Red Serpent" may be his worst. He only shows up for a few scenes, but he manages to give a really awful performance in part due to his really unconvincing Russian accent. (And he has a sex scene showing him with his shirt unbuttoned - ugh!) As for the rest of the movie, it manages for the most part to be even worse than Scheider's performance. You can tell they tried to save this in the editing room due to some real awkward editing and insertion of new material. But there are countless other flaws, like bad audio or inappropriate music. But the biggest flaw of the movie is that it's so boring, with most of the movie devoted to dreary chat or people stumbling in the snow. The reason why I'm not giving this one star is that there is occasionally some nice visual candy, ranging from impressive camera movement to pleasing cinematography. Though the movie is still definitely a stinker!

I've seen many comedy's; Undercover Brother, Scary Movie 1 and 2, the Austin Powers series and loads more. There were some that just made me chuckle, some that gave me two or three really good laughs, but none ever really got me to roll over the floor.I watched this movie with a bunch of friends. We were kinda bored, stuck in a student apartment, and this guy said he had a cool movie.What followed were the funniest one-and-a-half-hours of my life. We ended up watching it three times, every single time we picked up new brilliantly placed jokes and cliché's that are so bad, they oughta be satires. Looking back, it still cracks us up. This thing is a masterpiece.Have you ever felt you're not a man for comedy movies? They don't really crack you up? Watch this with a bunch of friends. If it works out well it might end up like it did for me: the funniest 90 minutes of my life.You'll never know when he'll strike! God, even the tag line is hilarious.

I would like to say that I enjoyed watching this movie. I would never tell you that it is a movie that should win an award, but this is a good entertainment flick. The actors in this movie were good, I particularly liked how Michael Pare starred. He reminds me of the French actor Alain Delon; also, Roy Scheider had a good role as the villain who had plans to kill the good people. Oleg Taktarov was also outstanding in this movie and the way he acted. The best part was when Pare uses a small firearm and shoots Scheider's helicopter down with only one bullet. It is also amazing how at the end of the movie, you find out Pare's real profession. If you like action and suspense, I would recommend this movie.

Well this has got to be the single worst movie I have ever watched. I am Russian and I couldn't believe this crap. This movie takes advantage of every single Russian stereotype and it does so without any skill or taste. Acting literally sucked. Special effects..... WHAT SPECIAL EFFECTS!? I thought this movie couldn't have got any worst until I saw the helicopter scene at the end of the movie. That scene left me sitting there with my mouth half open in disbelief that someone thought that was a good idea. This is as low budget as they get. If on certain night you find yourself desperate for some entertainment and just happen to have a copy of this movie laying around might I suggest finding a nice brick wall and just bang your head on it for an hour or so... I think you will find that a whole lot more satisfying