Not a few times they have Reviews countercurrent about poorly received films by the majority (it also happens backwards). It happens with recent titles and those of decades ago, which are associated by default to that general feeling. Anacondaavailable in Amazon Prime Video And in Filmin, it was at the time an enormously crushed film. However, Not far as bad as they said.
Anacondareason for a unique review with Jack Black and Paul Rudd in the history of some movie -love friends traveling to the Amazon to make a remakeit has a very low and discouraging 2.7 in Filmaffinity and a 4.9 in IMDB. A cruelty that clashes with its reality, something on the other hand when valuing gender cinema.
VI Anaconda In the summer of 1997when it premiered in Spain, and I liked it. I was 13 years oldwhich is why I remember her with some love, which remained in later viewed, also in youth. After many years without returning to her, I have encouraged myself to do so for Check if, with the most developed and settled cinephile criteria, I was always wrong and was a bodium. And the truth is that, even detecting the elements that ‘invalidate’ in the eyes of many, treasure Sympathy as a classic adventure film with b features B.
Directed by the Peruvian Luis Llosaresponsible for The specialistwith Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone, from In the heart of the junglewith Tom Berenger, and Fire in the Amazonwith Sandra Bulock, they starred Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and John Voight. He showed the expedition for the Amazon (the Brazilian part) of a teacher and a documentary filming team to locate an unknown tribe. An objective that begins to truncate as soon as its barge rescues a stranger with bad intentions and determined to live a giant snake alive.
His cast continues to revisit curious character. As an actress, Lopez came from working on Jack and in Assault on the money train and to lead the biopic Serena. Shortly after we would see them with Sean Penn in Diversion to hellby Oliver Stone. And Cube, one of the pioneering rappers in alternating music and cinema, generated empathy in their camera role (and in the group of ‘black’ of the group).
In more secondary positions, the presence of Eric Stoltz (The ‘camel’ of Pulp fiction). Either from Jonathan Hydewhich will always be the father and the hunter of Jumanji. And more than one does not forget that it appeared A first Owen Wilsonwhich would then be in The haunting. The den. The team was completed with Kari Wuhrer (Arac Attack). Also, when refreshing the memory attracts attention to find A young Danny Trejothe man who committed suicide in the prologue before the anaconda who bursts in.
An unpayable John Voight
I have left for the end to John Voight Because theirs in this movie is unpayable. After playing the boss and antagonist of Impossible mission He was encouraged to influence his facet of villain. Both his performance and his character are long as interesting In this field. It details, in terms of presence, and at the same time falls into exaggeration. Those faces that he puts and how the camera emphasizes from the beginning that is bad … a poster announcing it with bright lights would be more subtle. Throughout the whole story combines scenes in which it transmits dimension with others in which it is stopped.
This dynamic activates a suggestion to which the very crazy detail that embodies a Paraguayan snake hunter is added that was going to priest and the double occurrence that his horrible death includes a image in which it is seen from within how the anaconda is engulfing it and another in which the bug regurgita. The fact of agonizing and being consumed by the digestive acids of the snake does not prevent him from winking an eye to the character of Lopez. These ideas link with the Spirit B of the work, notorious in the climax, a passage in which they are in fact and that has as its culmination the scene of the anaconda chasing Lopez and Cube in flames.
Luis Llosa’s trade
Anacondaone of the titles that in those years contributed to the Monster Movies They were in the focus again, It benefits from Luis Llosa’s trade (cousin of the famous Mario Vargas Llosa), reflected in the Subjective vision alluding to snake movements and in its plasma of the jungle (the images taken between vegetation) and the journey in the barge. The scene in which Voight tries to hunt the monster at night with the lights of the boat pointing and the aforementioned fire refer to that craftsman’s work.
Although it is on its way to turning 30, the film, which had three sequelae of balance, does not look aged beyond its poor underwater moments. To recreate the anaconda, whose appearances are well ‘rationed’ throughout the story, they were used animatronics and digital effects (correct for the time) depending on what the situation asked. In the former The doll factor appears but the trade and charm prevail.
The Low consideration of Anaconda It is, in essence, to its scriptespecially with regard to dynamics with Paul Serone (Voight). Despite the obvious, the members of the expedition take too long to rebel. The erroneous decisions of the characters, with examples such as Gary’s change of opinion (Wilson) and the clumsy threat with Denise’s knife (Wuhrer), point out the loose side of the writing. Apart, clamorous failures such as the waterfall in which the water rises instead of lowering They do not help the assessment.
