Boa Vs. Python

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Summary: SCI-FI is the Direct to Video channel for drek films....
Review: Yes, as hard as it is to belive this movie was a studio picture but it was so bad, that they said, "No Let's give it a SCI-FI Chennel release and then ship it directly to video; Rateing the film;The Cast; They can not act.The Script; It has none.The effects; Look like cheap video game CG effects.Someone to cheer for in the movie; No one. It has two so called beautiful female co-stars to make guys drool. But it's doubtful anyone would watch the movie just to see that. Unless they were largely shallow.Is there anything possitive to say about this movie at all. NOPE.

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Summary: Boa meets Python
Review: Although they make a small reference to Greg Larson from Python and Python II, they were unable to take it farther because Boa vs. Python is a Columbiua Tri-Star release and Pythons are 20th Century Fox, so the film really has no connection, not even to Boa, which is distributed by Columbia Tri-Star as well. Since Python II and Boa were released in 2002 they're CG effects are a little outdated. Ok, alot outdated. Now it's 2004 and the snakes are a little more clearly generated, but they're not up to par with modern effects. The story is a little different from the other three entries in the series, but nothing too surprising. Nudity, blood, violence, and bad language are all prominent in the film, so keep it away from small kids. It's not the best, and the ending is pretty abrupt. The movie is technologically better than the other three movies, but it's not a better movie.

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Summary: ROCKIN REPTILES
Review: Hey, for a straight to video release, this one ain't so bad. The obvious CGI effects are pretty darned good; the snakes looked part of the action most of the time. In this one, a musclebound big game hunter sneaks a huge python (where he got it, no one bothers to tell us) into the country in order to provide some wealthy businessmen a rare hunting opportunity. Of course, the snake escapes and heads for the sewer system of Philadelphia (of all places). FBI Honcho (played glumly if adequately by Kirk B. R. Woller) contacts a pretty biologist (Playboy's Jaime Bergman) who has been working with dolphins to use her "implants" on a giant boa being harvested by scholarly and almost hunky David Hewlett. They use these implants to track the python through the boa's eyes. Mysteriously enough, the darned machine doesn't work very well (there goes government spending again), so the good guys don't know that the bad guys (the hunters) are also on the prowl for the snake(s). Adam Kendrick as Broddick, the head nasty, chews up both the scenery and his cigars, and throws his considerable weight around, alas to no avail.
Of all the snake movies, and we've had tons, this one isn't the best, but it's certainly not the worst (see SSSSSS...). Anyway, fans of this type of movie shouldn't be too disappointed.

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Summary: Forget the snakes. Check out the beautiful ladies!
Review: I rented this movie because, well, uh...I have no idea why I rented this movie but I'm glad I did because Jaime Bergman is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful women I've ever seen in my life. I actually made a "Oh!" sound when she came onscreen. I haven't done that since the Nazi girl in ED GEIN. Sadly, Jaime did not get naked. How rude.

Angel Boris, the other female lead, does get naked for about a minute and while she's nowhere near as hot as Jaime I'm still grateful. Thank you. Also at the very beginning of the movie there is a very good looking waitress.

Oh yea there's also some snakes. The CGI reptiles are pretty bad, but first time director David Flores manages to pull it off and make this film kinda fun thanks to a good sense of humor and some interesting characters including a reporter who blames all of the destruction on Al Queda; a group of gung-ho hunters who kill a rabbit with a hand grenade and a cop who gets excited, slips and falls face first into a pile of guts. "I think you have a piece of liver on your face."

Worth watching as long as you remember not to expect too much from a movie called BOA VS. PYTHON.


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Summary: It's scary... that this got made
Review: I'd like to think that someone got fired over this movie. The really amazing thing about Boa vs. Python is that it got made at all. Then, after it got made, it aired on the Sci-Fi Channel. Now, we all know that the Sci-Fi Channel is not exactly known for excellence in programming, but this is an all time low.
The fact that someone pitched Boa vs. Python as a concept, and someone else said, "Yeah! Great!" is just plain frightening. I almost can't blame the writer, the director, the actors, or the terrible CGFX team.
They did what they had to do. The worst thing about Boa vs. Python is that it came into existence at all. 2 out of 10 stars. One for the python, one for the boa.


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Summary: The Battle continues this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!
Review: In yet another "versus" movie, Hollywood chooses a match-up that is not unlike the others that we have seen in the cinema lately. This time it is between two species of the snake world, boas and pythons.

An enormous python escapes from a truck delivering it to be hunted and captured for money. After terrorizing the sewers of Philadelphia, the FBI enlists the aid of two fellow scientists to remedy the situation. One has been harboring an enormous boa for years, while the other one has beautiful "implants". Together they work to bring this slithering beast of evil down. Little do they know they are not the only ones hot on the trail. A big game animal hunter named Roddick has recruited some of the best hunters in the world to bring this beast down. The battle royale begins as the lines between man vs. nature, man vs. machine, and man vs. man are blurred and new boundaries are set. Who will reign supreme? Find out this SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!

Impressive graphics and an excellent balance between action and gore are what keep this film afloat. This straight to DVD release should have most people laughing, but oddly kept my attention until the very end. The story is flawed, the characters are unbelievable, and the script is amateurish (see constant remarks about "implants" and Monica), but there is something to be said about using good CGI. This is no LOTR, but for a straight to DVD release I was impressed. Director David Flores has done an exceptional job of giving us exactly what we came looking for with this film. We wanted action, some nudity, and tons of snakes, and he successfully handed them to us on a silver platter. If you do not walk into this film with high expectations, you will probably leave impressed.

Grade: ** ½ out of ****

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Summary: BOA VS. PYTHON (PLEASE)
Review: JAPEREZ SAN DIEGO, TEXAS. WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS MOVIE I DIDN'T LIKE IT. BOA AND PYTHON ONLY FOUGHT FOR THR LAST 10 MINUTES.THIS MOVIE SUCKED. THERE WAS NOTHING INTERESTING ABOUT IT. (DONT BUY THIS MOVIE.)

Rating:
Summary: BOA VS. PYTHON (PLEASE)
Review: JAPEREZ SAN DIEGO, TEXAS. WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS MOVIE I DIDN'T LIKE IT. BOA AND PYTHON ONLY FOUGHT FOR THR LAST 10 MINUTES.THIS MOVIE SUCKED. THERE WAS NOTHING INTERESTING ABOUT IT. (DONT BUY THIS MOVIE.)

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Summary: Fairly average B movie
Review: This is about a big game hunter who arranges to have a giant boa (or maybe it's the python) flown in so that he and his fellow hunters can have some fun going after it. But it escapes and gets down into the sewer system. Some government people just happen to have an equally huge python (or maybe it's the boa), so naturaly they decide to release the second snake to hunt down the first. Sounds like a fine idea to me.

Fairly average B movie. I've only seen the edited for TV version, but it looked like the unedited version might have some T&A. The characters are average, acting was average (for a B movie), the action was pretty slow. The snakes are so obviously CGI that watching them fight is more like a video game than a movie. Really no suspense, and when the snakes attack, since they're put in afterwards via computer animation, the actors don't really seem to react to them. That pretty much kills any excitement. The movie doesn't take itself very seriously, and it is somewhat funny in parts. There's a pretty girl in it, which is the only reason I sat through the whole thing.

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Summary: Wrestlers, Guns, Nudity and Giant Snakes
Review: This is an odd film that cashes in on a number of themes. We start out with a wrestling match between to masked wrestlers (Python and Boa). Then we have lots of nudity (a continuing theme). Then we have the bored hunters looking for a new quarry. We even have the secretive government agents who know more than they say and are not surprised by anything. Oh, and there are giant snakes. While the python is related to the Python movies, this is a different boa (the original was prehistoric).

Rich hunter procures the python to be used as a quarry for typical hunter (even included the obligatory good-ole-boy). The Python gets away and the hunt moves to a new location, a water and power station. The Feds move in to seal off the facility and stop the creature. We then add a farm-raised giant boa that will be cybernetically enhanced to catch the python. More sex, nudity and gunplay with some romance (reptilian and mammalian) and the film eventually moves to a conclusion as all groups come together.

Much of the movie does not make a whole lot of sense. First we have the warrior chick who hates snakes. Why does she have a snake tattooed along her spine? We have the scientist how has spent years to develop a universal antitoxin. He says that if his work saves just one life it will all be worth it. Bu he immediately moves to protect the python even though it keeps killing people. Why the cybernetics? A simple camera strapped on the snakes head would have done just as well. If the sensors are keyed to the cybernetics why do they detect the python and hunters? Why are the lone-wolf hunters expected to work as a team? A contest would be more in there personality profiles? What happened to the FBI? They just disappeared to let the main group solve all of the problems.

Still, with a good bowl of fresh popcorn and the right time, this can be quite fun to watch. There is more nudity in this one than is included in any five other similar films. The scene with the python and the lovers in the station wagon is priceless and thoroughly laugh-inducing. Its got plenty of action, nudity, guns, snakes, and plot devices but lacks in script, plot, and sense. Oh, the cover is bogus. No street scenes or battles with helicopters.