Boa vs. Python
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Movie Reviews of Boa vs. Python
Movie Review: Wrestlers, Guns, Nudity and Giant Snakes
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Movie Review: The Battle continues this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!
Summary: 3 Stars
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 ****
Movie Review: Fairly average B movie
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Movie Review: Boa meets Python
Summary: 3 Stars
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.Movie Review: God help me, I enjoyed this.
Summary: 3 Stars
BOA VS PYTHON is a poorly made movie with bad effects, horrid acting, and crap diolague. But may God have mercy on my soul, I had a stupid grin on my face almost the entire runtime.
A giant python escapes from a cargo truck, so this rich buttmunch and a hunting team go after it. See, hunting and killing the snake was always their intention. But the government has other plans, sending a giant boa constrictor after the python to kill it. Of course, the whole situation gets out of hand soon enough.
The snakes never actually fight until the last 10 minutes, but the showdown is kind of cool, altough breif. If you like crappy monster movies, rent BOA VS PYTHON. You may or may not enjoy yourself.