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Movie Reviews of Python II
Movie Review: Python 2 (2002)
Summary: 5 Stars
First thoughts...Nicely done. But...not as good as the first one. Here's the breakdown.
1. Directing--Very good. I liked the kind of quick-cut filmmaking from Lee McConnell.
2. Script--Good writing from Jeff Rank. There is some cheesy dialogue, but it's not that bad.
3. Acting--You've got William Zabka back, and he's my favorite character in this movie and the first one.
Now for the content review.
Rated R for language and creature violence.
1. Sex/Nudity=0/10.
2. Violence/Gore=4/10. It's not as violent as the first one but the snakes still eat quite a few people.
3. Language=8/10. Worse than the first one. 22 F-words and other profanities.
Final thoughts...Overall 5/5. I liked it, but it's not as good as the first one. Highly recommended to fans of the genre or people who have seen the first one.
Movie Review: Better than the first, but that doesn't say much
Summary: 3 Stars
The best thing about this sequel is probably that we don't have Casper Van Diem's fake southern accent from the first movie.What we do have is an operation to take an 85-foot 12-ton python from a cave in Russia to the US. This is to be done by an American officer leading Russian troops. They are pretty successful but are then shot down (no, I don't know why).
Then, a failed baseball player and his Russian wife who run a shipping company, run afoul of one of their accounts only to be rescued by a mysterious American (sure looked and sounded Russian to me).
Turns out he is the cop from the first movie. He needs their truck to pick up some cargo from a crash.
Meanwhile, at a Russian army base, a box about seven feet by three feet by four feet supposedly has the title creature in it. Well, they open it and the snake comes out. In one scene there is more sake sticking out of the bow then the box could hold (yeah, right!).
Soon we have tense scenes of our heroes and the snakes (did you say 'snakes'?) running around the caverns of the base. It all works out in the end but we never find out why there was more than one snake.
We also never find out what the python was doing in a Russian cave. If it was genetically created, how did it get there? This and other questions are never answered.
One good aspect was that a lot of the snake scenes had the snake off-camera, thus allowing for better suspense and a savings in CGI.
Movie Review: Python II
Summary: 3 Stars
I really loved Python 1 after I bought it, so I ordered Python II off of amazon and it was great! It's not as entertaining and definetly not as funny as the first Python, but it's still fun to watch. Greg Larson(William "Billy" Zabka) returns in Python II as Agent Larson on a mission to capture another large snake that has again escaped due to an airplane crash. This time around the battle rages on in Russia. I wish there were some more special features on this disk, a commentary would be cool.Movie Review: Entertaining but shallow
Summary: 3 Stars
Its an OK low budget sci-fi horror film but it does not have much to show off. The FX are average and the acting is a little below par. The story is ok, good enough to be made. but its a grain in the beach of terror films.Movie Review: Billy Zabka Versus The Longest Credits In History
Summary: 2 Stars
What the world needed was another movie starring a giant acid-spewing snake. Thank goodness the producers brought us "Python II". In this tenuous sequel the snake is in a secret US cargo plane that is shot down over Chechnya for reasons that remain unclear. After it begins attacking a Russian military installation CIA agent Greg Larson (Billy Zabka) recruits several Russian thugs and a couple of smugglers (who happen to be married) to assist him in retrieving the snake, which has been fiendishly bioengineered.
Unfortunately the snake does not cooperate with their plans, and mayhem reigns on the base. The movie has many features that do not recommend it: the pointless flashbacks, the seemingly endless credit sequence (which was lengthened at the last minute to give the film a marketable running time), numerous continuity issues, and really, really bad CGI effects. I was especially amused when the snake spit what looks for all the world like Silly String on one of the victims (it was supposed to be acid). The only set of flashbacks that have any purpose at all are the ones linking Zabka with the first "Python". I actually felt bad for Zabka here: he actually can act, and his talents are squandered on this.
Amusing contrivances abound. The female smuggler gets blinded in the underground Russian complex, yet she is the one sent via a labyrinthine series of air conditioning ducts to the surface to get the explosives the professionals forgot to get out of their truck. Just think about this: they had a blind woman crawl through ducts, avoid the giant snake, run to the truck, get the explosives, and return while fighting the snake off with a pistol. To top it all off (remember she's blind) they make sure to give her a flashlight to help her navigate the ducts. In one final blazing continuity gaffe, they show her falling out of a duct, ending in a field, where she can then get to the truck. How do you fall out of an underground duct and wind up at ground level? Oh, never mind...
The CIA turns out to be (of course) an evil organization, and with a cavalcade of explosions, running, and constricting snakes, the smugglers escape the compound at exactly the same time that US stealth fighters start bombing the facility. As they vow to start a new life together, we can only hope (out of a fear of "Python III") that it will be decidedly less snake infested.
This movie gets two stars for Zabka's performance alone. The remainder of the film is decidedly amusing if you enjoy ridiculous B-movies, but if you are looking for a seriously suspenseful or scary movie, this will not likely be for you.
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