But pic works consistently on the level of Corman-esque popcorn entertainment thanks to the efficiency, energy and lightness of touch of helmer Dwight Little (“Halloween 4,” “Marked for Death”) and his game cast. Make no mistake, “Anacondas” is never more than a parade of cliches strung together by some seven credited writers (including the late Jim Cash, who died four years ago). Forced to hike through dense jungle brush in search of help (and, amazingly, still in search of the blood orchid), the explorers find themselves deep inside the Anacondas’ lair and about to discover that - uh oh - it’s mating season. Out on the water, Johnson’s boat (a ramshackle heap that makes the African Queen seem a model of seaworthiness) stalls and, in a Herzog-esque sequence, plummets over a dramatic waterfall.
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Of course, “Anacondas” is no more a movie about orchids than was “Adaptation.”, and so it’s only a matter of time before pic’s intrepid explorers become live bait for an eponymous army of man-eating snakes.Īrriving in Indonesia at the height of the rainy season, the researchers find only one guy in town crazy enough to ferry them where they want to go - an American ex-special forces operative named Johnson ( Johnny Messner), who has shoulders the size of bread loaves and one of those grizzled, square-jawed demeanors that says he eats nails for breakfast. If that is true, the find could turn them all into overnight billionaires. The team’s collective goal is to harvest a rare breed of orchid that may be capable of prolonging life.
Also along is a libidinous young doctor ( Nicholas Gonzalez) who can scarcely conceal his attraction to Sam. Group includes egotistical team leader Jack (Matthew Marsden) his nubile female assistant (and former pupil) Sam (KaDee Strickland) competitive doubting Thomas Gail (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) money man Gordon (Morris Chestnut) and computer geek Cole (Eugene Byrd), whose real specialty is providing comic relief. Whereas prior pic focused on anthropological filmmakers searching for a lost Amazonian tribe, this time a quintet of scientists (who, natch, look more like pin-ups) is dispatched to Borneo by a major New York pharmaceuticals corporation. As before, Joseph Conrad needn’t feel threatened.
Though it reprises no characters from “Anaconda,” new pic tells a similar story of jungle adventurers journeying upriver into a venomous heart of darkness.
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