Anaconda 3: Offspring

Is this the greatest snake movie ever made? Of course not. Neither is it the worst snake movie ever made. Instead, it hovers in the twilight region of almost but not quite. The plot is simple, two snakes are held captive in a secret lab where tests are being made to `improve' them. They are genetically enhanced to supposedly provide some type of cure for cancer and Alzheimer's. It is also hoped that they can prolong life. The research is being funded by a crooked industrialist named Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies). The dope aggravates the male anaconda into escaping, killing some bystanders on the way out of the complex. The female also escapes and she is pregnant. The race is on to recapture or kill these deadly snakes. David Hasselhoff has a supporting role as Markos Hammett, a mercenary with ulterior motives. Crystal Allen plays Dr. Amanda Hayes, the mastermind behind the research. Guilt drives her to kill the snakes. She's hampered by a sycophant appropriately named Pinkus (Ryan McCluskey). The action is fundamental for this type of movie (crashed vehicle, explosions, romping through a faux jungle.....). A group of potential bodies join the hunt, most don't make it to the showdown. The snakes either squeeze their victim, bite their head off, spear them with their tail, or swallow them whole. They're like Swiss Army knives, they have a lot of nifty features. Yes, the CGI is glaringly obvious (they were probably working with a budget of a buck fifty). The dialog is less then scintillating. The characters are all stock, no one really distinguishes themselves in the line of duty. (Rhys-Davies can play this type of role in his sleep.) Why Hasselhoff is featured as though he was the star is anyone's guess. Indiana Jones he isn't.It's crap, but I loved it.

I just wanted to thank you for the great movie that I purchased. I loved watching the movie. Thank you.

all that gun play was a waste of time and energy. 1st watch 04/04/2021.

Could have been better

Seeing the last film offered great new ideas to spawn off from. This film and the 4th one both use those ideas. Some reason the guy who plays Murdoch reminds me of the sabertooth movie which he played a very similar character. David Hasslehoff believe it or not took this film very serious. Which is a shocker for an actor such as him. But he pulls it off. While cgi is noticeable, this film was enjoyable to watch of you want a film to chill out too.

The Sci-Fi Channel has sunk to some pretty low depths before, but premiering this Romanian entry into the giant snake genre scrapes the bottom of the barrel. I have seen more than my share of reptiles-gone-amok movies, and "Anaconda 3: Offspring" may very well be the worst. It's certainly the worst I can think of after contemplating it for an hour in stunned post-movie silence.Here's the deal: An evil capitalist drug company wants to make a fortune developing either an anti-aging formula or a cure for cancer (depending which part of the plot you're paying attention to), and to do that they have performed genetic experiments on an anaconda. These experiments do nothing productive as far as I could tell, but they do make the snake more vicious than normal and, oh yeah, make it grow to 60 feet in length and 1,200 pounds. Other than that everything's perfectly normal. These experiments are done by Dr. Amanda Hayes (Crystal Allen), herpetologist in chief and resident leggy blonde. The evil corporation is headed by the nefarious Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies in his most over-the-top performance that I can recall: think William Shatner on steroids), who is angry about a PETA investigation, and offers $10 million for one of the giant snake's babies. Oh I did mention that the humongous snake is a gravid female ready deliver oodles of baby giant anacondas, right?Anyway, the scurrilous mercenary and tough guy Hammett (Hasselhoff) and his crew chase the giant snake through the Romanian countryside for an hour or so, getting picked off one by one in gory but unrealistic scenes. The film is extremely bloody, unnecessarily so, in fact, but the special effects are among the worst in a recent film. The CGI snake is absolutely awful, and the point at which reality meets computer imaging makes for frequent eye rolling: it is absolutely terrible. There are many scenes of the snake constricting and eating people, and they would be scary if they weren't so badly executed. The worst scene in the movie is when one of the snake hunters is ambushed by the giant snake striking from the top of a barn and biting his head off. Decapitation should be scary, but the unbelievable arterial bleeding reminded me of the bleeding from the lion in the old Monty Python "Scott of the Antarctic" sketch. Truly, I cannot emphasize how pitiful the effects are.Hasselhoff goes around beating people up, biting the ends off cigars, bragging how great he is, and letting his greed lead him, all the while saying choice lines like "I intend on getting a nice new pair of anaconda snakeskin boots." It turns out that Hasselhoff is involved in a backroom deal with Murdoch to preserve a snake (profits first, safety second...) which arouses the ire of Dr. Hayes, who, it turns out has a black belt in some rare form of martial art, and a switchblade, which she promptly uses on Hammett. In the stirring conclusion, she puts a bomb in the building where the snake and its spawn are, sets it for sixty seconds, says a few ironic things to Hammett, and leaves. Hammett struggles for the bomb, trying to overcome the grievous stabbing he's been dealt, and as the scene draws to its explosive conclusion, he is not only suffering from his impalement and beating at the hands of the fair Dr. Hayes, he is also being enveloped in the icy embrace of the snake, while being blown up. That's a bad way to die, but justice can be a harsh mistress.Not only does the film blow the big-picture things, it can't even get the smallest details right: why did the screenwriters have Dr. Hayes call the snake "slimy," for instance? Snakes are dry, as anyone with a Ph.D. in herpetology should know. Of course that's the least of this movie's problems, but it still annoyed me for some reason. I will not divulge the conclusion of the film (as if you couldn't guess), but sadly I will say that it makes it quite clear that "Anaconda 4" was in the offing even before the action wrapped up on this installment.The film did have one bright spot: it showed lots of scenic areas around Bucharest, Romania where it's really cheap to make a movie, as it turns out. Few Hollywood regulars were used, and most of the cast appears to have been recruited locally (e.g. Bogdan Uritescu, Alin Constantinescu, Gabi Burlacu, and Zoltan Butuc, to name but a few), but they did as well as any of the central hams in the big roles.I am a huge fan of camp classics, and bad movies of every genre. Even I have my limits, though, and this film has crossed the boundary from so-bad-it's-good to so-bad-I-can-hardly-bear-to-watch-it. Aside from the beauty of the Romanian countryside, I find absolutely nothing to recommend "Anaconda 3: Offspring".

J'ai apprécié ce dvd. Il parle d'une expérience scientifique sur des anacondas pour obtenir un sérum qui améliorela santé. Mais les serpents géants s'échappent et deviennent dangereux. Une équipe de mercenaires est envoyéepour neutraliser les serpents.

this is a great film.

He loved it

A very good buy & a good seller

bonsoir, bon film, je suis impressionné par les effets qui donnent la chair de poule, une histoire qui aurait pu être reellecordialement