Review of
Python
DVD video
One out of five stars
This movie is
bad, simply bad. The plot is absurd and the acting even worse. For reasons that
are unexplained, a sixty foot python that spits concentrated acid out of its
mouth is created. While it is being transported on a cargo plane it manages to
break out of the crate and the plane crashes. With a skin sturdy enough to
withstand bullets and the rockets from hand-held weapons, the snake easily
survives the crash.
Several young
people are killed, there is a deputy sheriff that is a real law enforcement
moron, old relationship scores and a few other points of largely irrelevant
nonsense. Especially the bespectacled science professor that loves snakes. When
the federal cavalry arrives, they give the local sheriff a ridiculous story and
then arrogantly attack the snake. The predictable result follows.
The “best”
scene is when one of the young women is accosted by the snake while she is in
the shower. Even though she is terrified of the giant reptile, she manages to
tightly wrap a towel around herself so well that none of her good parts are
exposed. The towel survives a terrified dash up from the basement, through the
house to a waiting truck and then another dash through a ravine, with a spill,
into a small cave of safety.
This is a movie
where most of the main characters are killed off, some while doing good and
others because they are stupid. Even the way the snake is finally killed is
absurd. It is also one of the most poorly acted movies I have ever seen.
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