LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

fullheadofsteam Let's face reality: most made-for-SyFy movies the past few years have been not only formulaic to the max, but pathetically scripted, acted, and cg'd. So to find this movie, which has some typical SyFy flick flaws but otherwise was fun, well then it's a gem among rocks. First is the intended or unintended visage of the protagonist lead character, because he looks more like an actor picked for a Western movie role than an authentic Old West character, so that starts us off on a fun note. The next best feature is Billy Drago as the antagonist -- he chews up every scene he is in and it is pure delight to watch his now-aged face and listen to his perfected southwestern drawl. And the movie builds tension remarkably well for a TV production. Of course the protagonist and antagonist end up in a cliché gunfight, but that's O.K. because by now we, the audience, WANT to see it! Without giving everything completely away here, let's just say that neither is killed but Billy Drago rides out of town but his little gang is left behind. The next sequence is, of course, the bigger event of the massive invasion into the town by zillions of deadly Copperhead snakes, and how the townspeople and remaining gang prepare for and deal with it. This is where the viewer is forced to focus on how a production and set designer can make a western town look dusty and authentic while being at the same time woefully low-budgeted so that the constructed town is perhaps too tiny overall. Now there are some real CG problems with the snakes, and some special effects problems such as where the hits are from a Gatling gun, but then there are some good (probably too few) splatter and snake-chopping effects. When Mama snake shows up, there's some real fun. What disappoints is that after the major snake encounters, Billy Drago doesn't show up to finalize his score with the lead character, which he had promised to do. In fact, the ending seems to have been a bit contrived to cover for that plot problem. But any time the good guy gets to ride off into the sunset (literally here), it's been a fun ride.

FightingWesterner Wild west clichés meet monster movie clichés in Copperhead, a slightly amusing Sci-Fi Channel (eh...SyFy) horror western about a group of rowdy outlaws and other stereotypes who stop fighting long enough to battle a deadly stampede of venomous snakes.My biggest question about Copperhead: Why are the snakes doing what they're doing? This is so monumentally illogical that only the Sci-Fi Channel could cook it up, though I must admit that it is a bit refreshing that the writers didn't invent some crackpot explanation for the events in the film.As ludicrous as it all was, I thought it was okay and the characters were fun, especially Billy Drago, who's a great actor and should have had more screen time.

JoeB131 Someone else used my "Snakes on a Plain" gag, so I can't do that.Okay, what we have is a typical Sci-Fi Channel plot. Take the plot from any Zombie movie, set it in the Wild West, replace zombies with (badly done) CGI snakes.The movie's funniest line is uttered by the corrupt sheriff "Let's tie dynamite to the (prostitute), and when the snake eats her...BOOOM!" The Soup had a lot of fun with this line, and rightfully so.Still, the acting, action scenes, and even the characters were above par for a Skiffy movie. The weakness was the snakes themselves, poorly done CGI probably done on some nerd's computer before his mother told him to move out of her basement.

Matt Ryan OK, I saw this movie on UK satellite! I have to say from reading the preview I had some high hopes for this movie but boy was I wrong! This was right up there with one of the worst horror movies I have ever seen! It was advertised in the UK as "Snakes on a Plane in the Wild West"! Although Snakes on a Plane wasn't an amazing movie, it was so much better than this tripe! A loner travels into a wild west town looking for his friend (who is dead) and soon becomes the local hero! Although he has some bad news for the local residents, he has news of a plague of snakes heading their way! He soon becomes the Posse leader and hatches various plans to defeat the scaled worms! As soon (within 2 minutes) of defeating the snakes, a local resident picks up a (obviously rubber) snake tail and from this he detects that they are babies and that the parent is close! Cue the GIANT 200 foot CGI snake....... Need I say more???? 1/10