Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
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Dwight H. LittleKamera:
Stephen F. WindonMusik:
Nerida Tyson-ChewBesetzung:
Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Matthew Marsden, Nicholas Gonzalez, Eugene Byrd, Morris Chestnut, Khoa Do, Karl Yune, Salli Richardson-Whitfield (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Auf der Suche nach einer seltenen Orchidee im Regenwald von Borneo trifft ein Team von Wissenschaftlern auf aggressive Riesen-Anakondas...
Ein Pharmakonzern ist auf die sagenumwobene Blut-Orchidee aufmerksam geworden, die nur alle sieben Jahre für wenige Wochen im Regenwald von Borneo blüht. Ein Wirkstoff in der Pflanze soll nicht nur viele Krankheiten heilen, sondern sogar das Leben verlängern. Ein Team von Wissenschaftlern macht sich auf nach Borneo, um die seltene Pflanze zu finden. Als dort nach einem Unglück ihr Boot kentert, müssen sich die Forscher durch den dichten Dschungel schlagen. Dort treffen sie auf angriffslustige Anakondas, die durch den Wirkstoff der Blut-Orchidee größer und aggressiver geworden sind. Für das Team beginnt ein verzweifelter Kampf ums Überleben...
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Viele Klischees und die Autoren haben sich nicht bemüht, den Film interessant zu gestalten. Ohne Witz, Spannung und Sympathien zu den Figuren. Sogar die Schlangen stehen hier im Hintergrund. Über ihre digitale Gestaltung werde ich lieber gar nicht sprechen. Ein überflüssiger Film.
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It's not as bad as the reviews might make it seem. Yes, it lacks tension, it lacks insight and the actors just dryly recite their lines, but the film at least tries to engage the viewer a little bit, and if the dull story about the search for a medicinal plant can't do it, at least the untamed jungle full of various dangerous vermin led by a digital anaconda is a partial vignette for the stupidity and hundreds of clichés inherent in this "horror" film. Let the film also be credited with the fact that even the second time I watched it to the end. 40%
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Anaconda: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is an American production that gave me the feeling it was a kind of an old-school attempt at something that could be adventurous, which I guess I was in the mood for at the time. Plus, it is obvious that there was a decent budget, and so they managed to make something that was watchable. In my view, it is definitely not as much of a flop as some databases claim.
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Why the fuck am I even looking at this? A script that would make even a lobotomised chimpanzee facepalm, and in the last act a lethal dose of clichés that are hard to digest even for a hardened viewer, for whom watching B-movie productions is a daily bread. The first half, when the expedition is just floating down the river and the story is mainly conversational, is still survivable with a certain amount of tolerance. But with the arrival of the anaconda, about 40 minutes before the end, Mr. Cliché enters the scene, and the final night sequence – the encounter with the snakes and the showdown with the villain – is the height of screenwriting idiocy and ineptitude, and an insult to any thinking viewer. Money for special effects was scarce and so the digital anaconda flashes about four times, always for a split second (and actually one wants to say, thank God!). It's a good thing that the generally below-average actors drop their clever and revelatory lines, otherwise there would be nothing to laugh at. The scariest part of the whole thing, however, is the fact that with a cost of 20 million and a worldwide gross of 64 million, this piece of garbage paid for itself just fine. I really warn those interested in this creation, and if you really can't be without the overgrown snake, buy a rubber snake and splash around with it in the bathtub. It will sure be a lot more fun.
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