SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

coolguyelijahsavestheworld Whoever came up with this idea definitely had a good imagination. The co-writer and director of this movie, Phillip Roth, has been known to do his giant creature movies on the Sci-Fi channel. He has over 80 producing credits in the last 15 years, and some notable Sci-Fi channel names are: Python, Python 2, Boa vs. Python, Lake Placid 2, Bats: Human Harvest, Lake Placid 3, and Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines. There are many more, but I think I got my point down. Phillip Roth has been doing monster movies for almost 20 years. But this one nails a pretty good example of what others lacked. Main idea: a giant snake is running loose in a big prison in Antarctica. All those monster movies I listed up there don't really have an unsuspected setting. Python takes place in a regular town, Lake Placid 2 is in Lake Placid (I think?), and Wrong Turn 5, I mean come on, are the hillbillies going to move? The acting in this movie is OK, special effects could use some work on, but the script is what makes this movie a pretty good monster movie. It can be suspenseful, and you want to see the characters get out. Overall, this movie isn't going to win an academy award, but if you want to see a pretty decent monster movie, check this one out.

luxdeluks Boa rules. It stinks so much that I really started to like it. Full of such incomprehensible idiocy that you will simply stare and wonder is it you who is really in need of treatment. They even classified it as horror. That's already funny.Okay we have the New Alcatraz located somewhere in the antarctic below the ice. It's interiors are really huge (lot's of halls) but actually have nothing to do with prisons. Are they gonna put the prisoners in giant standing lines through these halls? Great stuff is that it's for prisoners from all over the world and, although it just opened, it only has 6 of 'em! And they're supposed to be the worst of the worst. Yeah right! Dean Cain is more terrifying than all of 'em together. So imagine you are the warden of this complex and in the middle of a drilling through stone procedure, the drill expert says we shouldn't continue 'cause it could all blow up, what would you say? Off course it would be: "continue to drill" because otherwise a giant prehistoric snake preserved in pure nitrogen gas wouldn't come out! Basically all character reasoning in this movie doesn't make much sense to me. That's what I really like here. The characters are really shown as retards.Two biggest holes of this movie are Dean Cain and the snake Boa itself. Firstly Dean Cain who is supposed to be the main character and ends up being overshadowed by a much less known actor who stars as one of the prisoners. What I mean is that obviously Cain just took the role to make extra bucks, "acted" his role and went home. The guy probably thinks he's famous after starring superman. Yeah right. The prisoner guy thus comes out as the hero of the flick and dies in the end. You can even sense some sort of laughable sympathy towards that character. I really respect these b-grade actors who at least take things seriously and act as they act and give us something to laugh about unlike Cain who is simply annoying. Now about the snake. First of all the film makers rely too much on the low budget cgi effects and thus everything is dark and you can barely see Boa. Disappointing. Also, one of the funny things in this movie is that most of the people die by explosions they themselves caused, much less from Boa. Could this be some sort of hidden message about true human nature? A philosophical under layer created by the screenwriter? If so I'm Merry Poppins.Basically I would divide the movie in two parts: the first 45 minutes and the last 45 minutes. The first is really fun in it's badness 'cause there's not too much Cain and more unknown bad actors, especially the prisoners and one guard who's a real chicken. The last 45 minutes are kinda boring, Boa being almost invisible like in the whole movie and too much big empty halls which still fascinate me.Well Boa is bad but can be enjoyable. Some dialogues are simply too bad to be true as that also goes for some scenes. Guys this is New Alcatraz with only 6 prisoners and a prehistoric snake. Damn this is really astoundingly retarted.originally written for: http://www.bad-good.org

spd916 The movie is best described as any typical poorly produced horror type movie where the characters will do the stupidest things to get themselves killed for no reason (eg.-walking into places knowing that you'll be killed or not taking anyones obvious warnings). The acting itself was not bad but the movie doesn't make much sense as to how a giant snake can move around the prison but can't really be seen until at least the last 45 minutes of the film. Some scenes were just written poorly. for example, dean cain promises a prisoner her safety when she was freaking out about the snake eating her and 5 minutes later, all he did was shoot her (but not the snake) so she wouldn't have to deal with the pain of being eaten... I guess that's still keeping his word. I'm no animal expert but this snake goes around this prison eating a bunch of people...don't snakes eat and then go hide and sleep it off since they're most vulnerable when they are full?? I don't think it's even worth the time watching this film. if dean cain would show some skin, perhaps it's still worth the rental.

Yaroslav Zaitsev (yarik83) I am not going to elaborate on what the special effects of the movie are but i would like to say that unlike anaconda the concept of a giant snake is not working here.A boa constrictor, a member of voa family grows up to 33ft, sometimes longer. It is a cold blooded reptile that needs the warmth of the south to survive. it is a camouflaged species and usually same color pattern is distributed throughout the body. A boa does not have 2 front fangs, as shown in the movie. A boa does constrict and uses it's mouth to bite and then coils on the victim. it is not capable of standing tall and making growling sounds (like in movie)the bottom line is that even when species is hungry it kills one victim in a matter of up to 30 minutes. it then swallows the victim in a period of up to 1 hour. finally if it feels threatened it regurgitates the victim and is helpless while doing that.ahh if only the movie was a bit more realistic....