idea has potential, pity this film doesn't (Anaconda (DVD))

Member Name: vincent.buchan

Product:	Anaconda (DVD)
Date:	09/10/01 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: Voight"s good performance

Disadvantages: everything else

The movie stars Eric Stoltz for 10 minutes, as the anthropotgist in search of the elusive anaconda worshiping Shirishama tribe. Goin with him on his little quest is Jennifer Lopez as the director of the movie Stoltz is making, and Ice Cube as the cinematographer. As they sail through the Amazon river they meet a stranded snake hunter who the pick up and he promises the way to the tribe they are looking for

Voight, instead, has his own deadly plan and it sure isn't going to go down well with the others.

This movie is crap in one of it's many forms. Pointless, unbeliveable and totally dumb. They try SO HARD to make a beliveable movie, but with Stoltz getting ill at the beginning of the movie and spending just about all of it suffering in bed with a fever, they are pushing it. Mix in a little Lopez, it is her first gig as a director, and she goes on this unbelievable mission through some of the most dens forest land in the world with only the few people they have, not a chance.

I guess Lopez and Stoltz were just for one reason, so a love story can unfold. Otherwise, their roles were pretty pathetic. Ice Cube was a much better study in the movie, he at least was believable as a person trekking through the jungle. He looked fit and built like he was ready to wrestle a bear and run a thousand miles. Even so, they made him waltz through water chest deep even though he knew there was big killer snakes around. I don't think anyone would do that.

Jon Voight, however is such a good actor he makes you really hate him and makes you want him dead by feeding him to the snakes he loves to hunt. A good plus to this movie but his efforts are wasted.

The snake was spectacular even though a little far fetched. Big, ugly, nasty and lookin' evil. Don't know if they used a little snake and enlarged it up with computers or if he was a man made snake, don't care. He was a good one.

The dense forest scenery was in
timidating by itself but it is just a pity that was the only thing that was. The snake was predictable when it was going to jump out but when you're not expecting it (which happened very little throughout the film) it was a little scarey (I use that term loosely).

In the end I want to recommend this film to you because I likr the idea and I think it contains potential but in this film it is poor. Even though Voight's performance is very good, it is all wasted on this film. Everything about this movie is bad and you should do something better with your time ar watch something else.

If you decide to watch it anyway, all I can say is, "I told you so." That's what I got told anyway when I went against my friends advice.

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