 
A
group of documentary makers travel
through a river to search for an Indian
tribe to do a documentary on.
A storm occurs and they run into a crazy
hunter named Paul Sarone (Jon Voight) as
his boat was sinking and the crew ends up
rescuing him. He then offers to help them
out with their documentary but is really
a snake hunter and is looking for the
legendary anaconda snake and wants to
catch it and takes over their boat in
order to get it while the head boat drive
Dr. Steven Cale (Eric Stoltz) is bitten
by an insect and gets sick.
Sarone leads them to an area inhibirted
by amaconda's which are gigantic man
eating snakes as he wants to catch one
alive but people end up being eaten alive
by them. They also realise what a madman
this person really is which makes things
more terrifying.
A film that has
neat effects and very suspenseful. Loved
the giant snakes and you never know when
it will pop up to attack.
It's not the greatest film by any means
but still we have awesome special effects
and lots of jumping moments too.
The acting is very
good. Jon Voight delivered very
well in his role as he is one of those
versatile actors who always gained a
success in his career with shows and
really knew how to portray an evil
character.
Jennifer Lopez was great in her
role too being frightened by these
creatures and the same with Kari
Wuhrer who is great at acting tough.
It's nice to see Eric Stoltz
getting work again although halfway
through the film he is in a coma.
It shows the snake
eating some of it's victims but not
extremely gruesome.
A panther's eyeball is popped out
An anaconda is brutally shot in the head
The directing by Luis Llosa
is quite good too as he brought good
suspense into the movie.
He shows a great opening with an anaconda
attacking a hut near the water but the
anaconda isn't revealed yet which keeps
you glued to the set to find out when
they are.
There was a great set of the boat in a
thunderstorm and his direction on Jon
Voight struggling to hop onto the
boat as his was damaged.
We have a perfect reaction on Eric
Stoltz when he is underwater and a
deadly bug is in his mouth.
There's perfect camera shots of the
anaconda wrapping it's victims to death
even if it's a special effect but he
directed the casts reactions perfectly at
being terrified and shocked
There's also terrific action sequences
when they try to catch one too.
We have a dialogue scene performed by Jon
Voight and Kari
Wuhrer which is very smooth. Next
there's a perfect blocking by Wuhrer punching
Voight in the head. Right on!
There's also a great battling scene
between Voight with Ice Cube
and Wuhrer again while the
anaconda's are attacking.
Then later on, we have a surprise attack
by Voight hitting Cube
in the head with the back of his rifle.
Ouch! Great timing though.
He directs Voight perfectly with
his role making it very realistic.
There's also an effective scene when Wuhrer
tries to escape from an anaconda in
an old factory
The music is superbly
composed by Randy Edelman with
classical violin plying and we have
perfect sharp playing for the horrific
moments in the film
There's a songtrack performed by Ice
Cube when he himself is listening to
the song on his ghetto blaster in the
movie.
Terry
Flores: Snakes don't eat people.
Paul Sarone: Oh, they don't?
[pointing to scar on neck]
Paul
Sarone: Never look into the eyes of
someone you kill, they will haunt you
forever. I know.
Warren
Westridge: I had rather hoped that I
had done my bit.
Warren
Westridge: Asshole in one.
Gary:
Is it just me or does the jungle make you
really, really horny?
Warren
Westridge: The last time I was in
water like this I had to stay up all
night picking leeches off of my scrotum.
Paul
Sarone: This river can kill you, in a
thousand ways.
Gary:
There's something down there.
Paul Sarone: I know.
Gary: No, I really MEAN it.
Paul Sarone: I really mean it,
too.
Paul
Sarone: Eet wraps eetz COILS around
yooo... .TIGHTAH zan anny luvvah.
Danny:
Hold on I think I can blow it up.
Danny:
That's it, man. I'm getting the hell back
to L.A...
[Sarone
unravels a thirty-five foot snake skin]
Danny: What's this?
Paul Sarone: Anaconda skin.
Danny: There's sankes out there
this big?
Paul Sarone: This skin is three or
four years old, whatever shed it has
grown since then.
Paul
Sarone: [holds up some white dust]
See this? Human bones. That's how it
comes out. Ashes to ashes.
Paul
Sarone: [seeing the anaconda]
Buenos noches, beautiful.
[investigating
a wrecked boat]
Danny: It's kind of spooky in
here.
Paul Sarone: You think so?
Gary:
You don't know shit about the shit we're
in out here!
Terry
Flores: This film was supposed to be
my big break, and it turned out to be a
big disaster!
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