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El crossover de 2 películas de Sci Fi Channel poco conocidas es una fumada nada diferente de las obras de serie B. La trama es interesante, pero existen algunas cosas fuera de contexto como una escena mal editada de la boa infiltrándose al túnel o la boa atacando a los soldados que se encargaron de escoltarla aunque al descubrir que después puso un nido evidentemente se ponía a la defensiva o hasta incluso cuando se oye a la pitón eructar después de comerse a alguien como si esto fuera una caricatura. Los efectos digitales son muy obvios, ya que se trata de un producto de serie B sin realismo. Lamentablemente, la confrontación final entre ambos reptiles fue demasiado corta cuando podía haberle dado a la película un final más potente. La producción y las actuaciones son más aceptables. Resultado, una película regular o mediocre que si no causa tensión, puede al menos divertir un poco al espectador. Mi calificación para esta película es un 7/10.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
03/13/23
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Watching this movie is like entering a short coma; you lose an hour and a half of your life and you wake up with a strong urge to never do it again. You would think that in a movie starring 2 giant snakes, a SINGULAR person would google a snake at ANY point during the production of the film. Hey David, Google is free. Please use it to find out how snakes do snake things. Kindly return this film to the dumpster it belongs in. Thank you.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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If you go into a movie titled "Boa vs. Python," what do you expect to get out of it? Presumably, if you're like me, it's a battle between a boa constrictor and a python. That happens twice in the movie, although the first time is a bit of a cop out, because it's actually a wrestling match between two men who are named after the snakes. The second time comes near the climax, where the two creatures finally fight for a couple of minutes before their battle is ended by humans. That's right. We don't even get to find out who would win without outside interference.
What about the other 80 minutes? Well, surprising me, there's a loose idea of a plot. A millionaire, Broddick (Adam Kendrick), decides that bringing a bunch of other rich people to hunt a recently captured giant snake sounds like good fun. The snake escapes. The hunt goes on anyway, presumably because of the "good fun" I just mentioned. So, that team hunts the python. Another team -- led by an FBI Agent (Kirk B.R. Woller), a marine biologist (Jaime Bergman) and someone who happens to own a lab that has the giant boa (David Hewlett) -- uses the giant boa as a tracking dog to hunt the python, too.
The majority of the film takes place in tunnels, because that's where giant snakes would go when night falls and it gets cold outside. It also means there are a lot of bends so that the awful CGI only has to render a tail as the snake goes around another bend. It also means that we don't need a lot of lighting, which can help further hide the terrible CGI. Did I mention that the CGI is horrendous? This is a direct-to-video film about giant snakes, so I don't know if you expected the visuals to be anything resembling "good."
Essentially, we just wander around tunnels and sometimes forests for 90 minutes, all while people from the first team get picked off and those from the second team do absolutely nothing of value or interest, which leads up to a five-minute battle between the two snakes, during which we barely even see them, because we're still far too focused on the humans.
It's funny seeing the shortcuts used in order to avoid spending a lot of money. Characters shoot at things off-screen and we never see if they hit anything, because that would mean filming something costly. The snakes are rarely shown in their entirety, and look absolutely dreadful when they do. I don't even know if some of the characters in the movie are played by real actors. There isn't enough information on some of them to find out if that's the case.
If they are real actors, they should be ashamed that they appeared in this project. If they're not, they should still be ashamed. Nobody turns in a performance that anyone would call good, or even passable. It's hilarious watching these people try to act. This isn't helped out by the cinematography, either, which is terrible. The camera is often too close in scenes that don't require it, it's sometimes out of focus or held off-center for absolutely no reason. There was one camera they used that made a bold, black outline around every object, but it was only used for a few shots. Why? I have no idea.
The only joy that one can get out of a movie like <i>Boa vs. Python</i> -- both of which are established franchises, by the way, although there are few, if any, references to either -- is to make fun of it. I'll admit that I laughed at the terrible filmmaking, the lack of sense, and the awful looking snakes. This is a so-bad-it's-good movie that you can watch with friends for a good chuckle. That's it. Looking at it in any other light will lead you to disappointment and alcoholism.
Actually, that's not entirely true. The DVD cover artwork, which depicts better looking versions of the two snakes duking it out in a city, while a helicopter shoots at them from the background, is drawn quite nicely. None of that happens in the movie -- the only helicopter footage this crew could afford was a singular stock footage shot of a trio of 'copters flying; that's all we see of them. It's a nicely crafted cover, and it does a good job of completely misleading its audience.
You probably know what you're getting into when you pick a direct-to-Video movie about giant snakes. It's going to be stupid. It will look awful. It won't make a lot of sense. This is all expected. I just wish the basic premise, promised in the title, would have been acted on a bit more. It's disappointing to only get the snake fight in the final few minutes, and even then you barely see it -- and when you do, it's not all that exciting. It's ultimately not worth sitting through to find out who wins, either, because outside interference plays a role in determining the victor.
<i>Boa vs. Python</i> doesn't live up to its title. If it did, perhaps it would be worth seeing. Yes, it is still funny because it's absolutely terrible, but only if that's the mindset you enter it with. If you even start to think that it's a movie you should take seriously, you need to slap yourself. It's a terrible B-movie that is only truly fun if you can convince a few friends to come over to laugh at it with you.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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Boa vs Python knows what it is and tries to have fun with it. It succeeds on a basic level of monster movie fun. The effects are pretty bad and it gets really stupid, but it has some infectious fun and the cast is game.
Pros: It has fun with the silly concept, Angel Boris nudity
Cons: Bad effects, dumb attempts at humor
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/04/23
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Boa vs. Python has two giants snake pitting against one another. One snake breaks out loose killing its captors while another snake has a master. It is trained to only eat sneaks using some kind of info read targeting system. One of the snakes then takes shelter at water plane. A not so supporting group is created to hunt down the snake with zero chance of succeeding. One of the hunters is a psychopath who hammers all his lines and laughs throughout the entire film. One scene has him scorching the National Guard with a flamethrower. Other characters are this guy and girl and the snake trainer. However, the one I had my eye on was Jaime Bergman. She is beautiful, but she cannot save this film even if she pulls out the twins! Finally, we are left with an awful that has a clear winner and awful twists, acting, lines, and special effects. Consider a belt made of snakes.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/27/23
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Bloody awful, even by the low standards of this genre. Horrid CG makes this even more unwatchable.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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