BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

balint0808 The Story is not too bad.. I read the script and they missed some interesting parts, which could help to understand it. The water is the poison of the snake which mixed with the water of the cave ...if I remember correctly. The snake is not good the original snake's size is about the snake head statue's size. I have trouble only with the snake.. other parts of the movie is good, the colors and sounds both...,just the snake...very virtually. The real snake is looks like the statues, and they are looks good , the Snake King is too big for the size witch can live in a little cave is true, but the statue size snake easily fit into a cave. When they built the cave they didn't know what is the size of the snake what the Effect Man "draw" on it. I think if the effection men should make a better snake this movie could be one of the best snakemovies ever. :XD

Paul Andrews The Snake King, or Snakeman as it's more commonly known, starts as New York based pharmaceutical company GenTech announces in a press conference that during a recent expedition in the Amazon they discovered a corpse of a man which when analysed showed he died at the age of 300. Company scientists Dr. Rick Gordon (Larry Day) & Dr. Susan Elters (Jayne Heitmeyer) are going to lead another expedition into the Amazon to finds his tribe & discover the secret of living for 300 years, what could possibly go wrong? Well, for a start their helicopter is struck by lightening & crash lands in the middle of the Amazon, then Rick turns out to be a complete d*ck & to top it off a huge five headed snake wants to eat them all. Can their local guide Matt (Stephen Baldwin) lead them to safety & is finding the secret to eternal life really worth being eaten by a huge five headed snake for?This made-for-TV Canadian American co-production was written & directed by Allan A. Goldstein & is yet another Nu Image produced creature feature flick complete with all the clichés that these films seem determined to include. The script takes itself very seriously & is basically pretty much the same sort of thing as Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) with it's plot about a youth potion in the Amazon guarded by a snake, in this case a ridiculous looking one of the giant five headed variety. Lets go through the clichés which Nu Image insist on having in their creature features, good guys including a beautiful female scientist & a rugged hero type who end up falling in love, the antagonistic bad guys who want something the creature is protecting/in the way of, the disposable character's who don't say anything & have no opinions on anything because they are there to get eaten, the supposedly dramatic moralistic ending which will leave most viewers wiping away the tears of either laughter or boredom, the single isolated location to keep production costs down & an abundance of awful CGI computer effects. Yep, they're all here present & correct. Unfortunately Snake King is even more lame than a lot of other Nu Image 'classics' like Cyborg Cop (1993), Shark Attack (1999), their best film to date Spiders (2000), Crocodile (2000), Octopus (2000), Mansquito (2005) & a plethora of sequels & other killer Shark flicks, I mean most of the above are pretty bad films but a lot of them at least had fun elements, unintentionally hilarious moments & a sense no one was taking things too seriously but The Snake Kingis just a dull, boring, unoriginal mess of a film that isn't even good for any laughs & doesn't have any good looking babes in it either. At least the five headed snake survives at the end & gets to eat lots of humans but it's still a stinker.Director Goldstein doesn't do anything special here, the pace is slack, the plot is dumb, the editing is awful & the special effects are terrible. The CGI computer effects look awful, unless you have literally million's to spend on them GCI always ends up looking worse than your average Saturady morning cartoon with badly animated monsters that look stupid. The wonderful Ray Harryausen stop-motion animated seven headed Hydra from Jason and the Argonauts (1963) looks 100 times better & more realistic than the five headed snake here. There's a few gory bit here, there's some severed arms, people are bitten in half & there's a brief scene when someone has their stomach sliced open & their guts spill out.With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 the filmmakers were obviously working on a tight budget & it's a surprise they actually managed to shoot the thing on location in Brazil. Awful looking five headed snakes & helicopter crashes apart it's reasonably well made but it's bland & forgettable without an ounce of style. The acting here is bad & Stephen Baldwin is the token 'celebrity' actor who obviously needed rent money & a free holiday in South America.The Snake King is a pretty awful creature feature which offers nothing new over the countless killer Shark, Octopus, Insect, Lizard & Arachnid type films which seem to be everywhere & it doesn't even any genuine unintentional laughs either. Definitely not recommended, I'm not sure why they keep making these sorts of films other than there are people out there who like them & to satisfy demand Nu Image's next giant killer snake flick seems to be called MegaSnake (2007) & premiers in July apparently...

Cemetarygirl What makes me miffed is those who can a movie like Anacondas especially the second one, which I enjoyed. Well I recommend you see this first and then you will realise that the former are entertainingly good movies with a far higher acting standard than this one. Do we really need to live 300 years? Most of us cant handle the ones that we are granted in the first place. Or is that another, if you are rich then you are deserved of potential immortality. OK they needed to make another serpent movie but next time make a better one, with a better script and better actors. The snake fodder are obvious from the very start, hardly deemed to get any lines, and are not allowed the courtesy of developing personality. The snake is very unrealistic even though size does matter. In Anaconda one at least felt that the snakes where real(istic). And in this movie everything is said in the first half an hour giving the movie very little scope to work on. Why don't they let the obnoxious guy get it early and save us all a little grief. Stephen Baldwin although a little thinner, did it best in the Flintstones. He should stay with that genre, a hunter hey ho! The Jaguer chief was not plausible in the role and needed to shed a few cat kilos himself. I know it isn't going to happen but I will go back to my video shop and ask for my money back. Don't bother

laurampaleka I hate to give this movie even one star. It doesn't do anything to deserve it. Totally laughable plot, horribly untalented cast and I haven't seen graphics of this "high" caliber since Children of the Corn 4. One of the Baldwin brothers is in this movie. And here's something that must have come as a delightful surprise to him- he's not even the main star of this C grade flick. That must have been a huge blow to the Baldwin ego. I can't believe that they actually filmed this in the Rain Forests of Brazil and somehow made it seem as if it was on a cardboard set. How do you mess that up? PLEASE don't waste your time with this one- unless you are looking for a movie to make fun of all night long.