Michael O'Keefe
An attractive young Geneticist Scientist, Dr. Amanda Haze (Crystal Allen), develops a serum for regenerating cells that come with self-healing abilities and possible immortality. Her employer Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies), an evil minded financier, is ramrodding a group to find a fresh supply of blood orchids needed to experiment further with the regenerating nectar. The tail of an anaconda is cut off and almost immediately grows into two ferocious man-eating giant serpents with non-stop hunger. The woods of Romania are ripe for blood-lust.The CGI is pretty sloppy and goes hand in hand with the less than flawless story line and acting. Almost comical are scenes of the giant snakes flipping their prey into the air before swallowing whole.Don E. FauntLeRoy directs. Other players: Linden Ashby, Danny Midwinter, Claudia Bleont, Calin Stanciu and Ana Ularu.
BickleyB
Can't recall if I've seen Anaconda 3. From the scenes in the movie, it looks like a direct sequel. Main charter, Amanda Hayes, who is trying to hunt down the snake has flash backs in the form of movie clips from the last film.John Rhys-Davies plays the big villain in this movie who hires a mercenary team to track down a serum I think they were working on for him in part 3 that will cure his cancer. I wonder how much dough Rhys- Davies is making on just literally appearing in the movie for a few minutes in these straight-to-Video masterpieces. It would seem he only has to give up one weekend to film his parts and he gets such a generous credit, mostly used to draw in either his Indi fans or his Slider fans, the latter of which I know him best from. Hope it's a lot. Telling you the CGI is crap is not saying much, cause what else would you expect from a movie like this, but I must admit watching that Computer Generated snake eat people was just too cool.The Movie moves fast, which I usually like, but I feel the ensemble cast was too big for the fast paste. I care nothing for the mercenary team sent out to find the serum and kill any witness, or the exception team that goes looking for the group of people doing experiments in an eastern European forest, but as I was saying before, the movie's awesomeness comes from watching the snake feed on these people for 90 mins. They had the elements to created more 3 dimensional characters, like with the mercenaries and the exception team being on different sides, but having to come together for a common enemy, but the filmmakers chose to focus more on the snake being the main source of evil. The anaconda had a lot of food to eat but none of it had substance to it. Guess that's why he was always so hungry.Poor Anaconda franchise. Once a huge theatrical release now just something recommended on Netflix hoping to get selected. Maybe they can lore JLo away from the Idol chair to make a similar deal that Rhys- Davies has, or at least Ice Cube.Like the fast paste but not enough built up in the horror to keep me glued to my TV
TheLittleSongbird
The first Anaconda I was not blown away by, the second had me entertained and the third was horrendous. The fourth was better than the previous instalment but in almost every way it is still poppycock. Crystal Allen returns and she is decent and John Rhys-Davies tries hard with his weak material and underwritten character, but that is pretty much the only praise I can give. The scenery/sets I suppose were sort of nice, but they were not given any justice by the dull photography and hackneyed editing. The music is generic and forgettable again, the effects are not that great and don't do anything to enhance any suspense in the atmosphere. The direction is also sloppy, the dialogue is awful with none of it ringing true and the story is an incoherent mess. The acting apart from Allen and Rhys-Davies is very poor and not helped by the fact that there are too many characters so any empathy we try to feel doesn't come out. Overall, a mess but better than the third. 2/10 Bethany Cox
BewaretheBlade
I saw this on Sci-Fi Channel on it's first air date, and I must say it certainly exceeded my expectations after seeing it's predecessor. The acting in this movie is actually pretty well done; something I was not expecting. Gore is also 20 times better, way better than 3's ketchup packet squeeze effect. But, as always giant snake movies have their cons. Don't expect anything special in the graphics department- the snake in the first Anaconda was even better than the one in this movie. The story is also exceedingly unbelievable, and at some points just plain dumb; the snake regenerates it's head after it gets popped...The conclusion? This installment in the series is pretty much on par with the first one. It has plenty of action, and for once not every supporting character dies (cliche repeated in every Sci-Fi movie). Only watch this only if you have an open mind or if you are in the mood for some good cheesy fun.6/10
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