Copperhead

2008
3.8| 1h30m| en
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Small town in the Wild West is attacked by poisonous snakes.

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Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
lost-in-limbo Just another cheaply made B-grade TV presentation from the sci-fi channel with sub-standard CGI effects… yeah but I actually came away really enjoying this feature even though in a laughable sense. My main fascination that drew me in was that Billy Drago was credited, but to my surprise he all but had 30 minutes. After the opening he disappears not completely knowing his fate. Anyhow what eventuates is some mindless and kooky snake-action on the western frontier. That's pretty much the story too. Predictable and not much meat to it, despite some of the characters having some sort of background story. Nothing is totally explored, but it's fulfilling. The action comes in spades, with plenty of bang for your buck with bullets and snakes making a great recipe. As for the snakes themselves, they look like you would expect for such a production. Glossy and overdone. Terrible wouldn't go astray either. Time flies by, while the script fits nicely and adds some digestible humour to the fold and the score (while on repeat) creates that western twang. Even the camera-work is crisp in movement and placement. Performances hold up with a solid lead turn by Brad Johnson and Drago pretty much steals the scenes in the opening encounters. Not a bad feature, which is amusingly fun and captivating throughout.
urko-3 Just few facts. First: It's a movie with a prep of 4 weeks. It's shooting schedule is 20 days. 8 weeks for the edit. 2 mounts for the CGI work. Do the math. Time. Time. Time. The biggest problem of all. Don't get me wrong - Always can be better. Always. May be someone can do better in the same time frame. May be not. Second: As we all know period piece movies are kinda hard. All the costumes, props, sets, etc. Day and Night exteriors. I just think everyone did an extremely good job, for the amount of time they had. Third: I'm happy to read positive comments. That's how it should be. The people who are able to pull out a movie that looks like that don't deserve anything else. I really think some scenes and shots are great. There's a 2 and a half minute shot. Very nice duel on the street. Very nice photography in general. And then again -- Imagine what could be done with just a little bit more time.
Samualt In an attempt to meld together a western and a horror they have instead created a boring, childish, bit of fluff. The acting, camera work, and visuals are alright. The actors did a good job with what little they had to work with. But, nothing could fix the childish script. It amazes me that someone at a studio read this script and then gave permission to create this movie! What were they thinking? The script is slow, boring, contains way too much talk and too little action. I doubt this movie could keep the interest of even a ten year old more than a few minutes. It doesn't completely fail as a B or C western. But the addition of the snakes gives the movie a real schizophrenic character. If your looking for some thrills then click the channel and keep searching. You won't find what your looking for here.
archangel1575 So flipping through the channels I noticed Sci-Fi was having a "Bad Movie Night" or something along those lines because ,movies like "SuperGator" and "Komodo Vs. Cobra" were being thrown in with a bunch of other movies. This is one of them. Set in the old west, this movie is about a cowboy riding to warn a town of an impending invasion of copperhead snakes. For those that know nothing of copperheads, please Wikipedia Copperhead and read the article. In short, it says they are docile unless attacked and their venom is only poisonous only if you are bitten by more than one at a time (but don't worry, there's plenty of that happening.So after a made for Sci-Fi movie defies science, it of course takes place in a time were the most advanced thing was the Gatling Gun, which is in the movie. So anyway, old Wild West Bill (no fooling) final convinces the town of the deadly snakes after about 30 minutes of the movie involves no snakes, but a wild west shoot-out. Grand as it is, the snakes attack, en masse.Well, not all of them are copperheads at least. In one scene, one of the harlots is clearly holding a python...But the unreasonable size of some of the snakes is revealed later. After much expected death and snake shootin', hat wearin', flame-throwin' man vs. snake action, hey finally blow up all of the snakes.*SPOILER*A giant snake eventually attacks the hapless survivors. Oh happy day when the Gatling Gun is turned into a harpoon gun to take down the big mama snake. A 40' copperhead is killed and the movie ends. There, if you haven't seen it, I just saved you 2 1/2 hours. CGI:Bad. Story: Terrible. Acting: Good, but only by one character, the bad guy, who dies halfway into the movie...shame...

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