Python II (2002)

When an American cargo plane carrying a top-secret anti-personnel device is shot down over war-torn Chechnya, Russian scientists are eager to investigate. But their curiousity leads to horrific death and destruction as they inadvertently unleash the most terrifying "weapon" the world has even known: a massive, biogenitically enhanced python with lightening-fast reflexes and voracious appetite for human flesh.

Entertaining but shallow

Its an OK low budget sci-fi horror film but it does not have much to show off. The FX are average and the acting is a little below par. The story is ok, good enough to be made. but its a grain in the beach of terror films. May 12, 2008

Billy Zabka Versus The Longest Credits In History

What the world needed was another movie starring a giant acid-spewing snake. Thank goodness the producers brought us "Python II". In this tenuous sequel the snake is in a secret US cargo plane that is shot down over Chechnya for reasons that remain unclear. After it begins attacking a Russian military installation CIA agent Greg Larson (Billy Zabka) recruits several Russian thugs and a couple of smugglers (who happen to be married) to assist him in retrieving the snake, which has been fiendishly bioengineered.

Unfortunately the snake does not cooperate with their plans, and mayhem reigns on the base. The movie has many features that do not recommend it: the pointless flashbacks, the seemingly endless credit sequence (which was lengthened at the last minute to give the film a marketable running time), numerous continuity issues, and really, really bad CGI effects. I was especially amused when the snake spit what looks for all the world like Silly String on one of the victims (it was supposed to be acid). The only set of flashbacks that have any purpose at all are the ones linking Zabka with the first "Python". I actually felt bad for Zabka here: he actually can act, and his talents are squandered on this.

Amusing contrivances abound. The female smuggler gets blinded in the underground Russian complex, yet she is the one sent via a labyrinthine series of air conditioning ducts to the surface to get the explosives the professionals forgot to get out of their truck. Just think about this: they had a blind woman crawl through ducts, avoid the giant snake, run to the truck, get the explosives, and return while fighting the snake off with a pistol. To top it all off (remember she's blind) they make sure to give her a flashlight to help her navigate the ducts. In one final blazing continuity gaffe, they show her falling out of a duct, ending in a field, where she can then get to the truck. How do you fall out of an underground duct and wind up at ground level? Oh, never mind...

The CIA turns out to be (of course) an evil organization, and with a cavalcade of explosions, running, and constricting snakes, the smugglers escape the compound at exactly the same time that US stealth fighters start bombing the facility. As they vow to start a new life together, we can only hope (out of a fear of "Python III") that it will be decidedly less snake infested.

This movie gets two stars for Zabka's performance alone. The remainder of the film is decidedly amusing if you enjoy ridiculous B-movies, but if you are looking for a seriously suspenseful or scary movie, this will not likely be for you. April 22, 2008

Hiss me baby one more time

A review of python II by Jarrett Suhr
The first one set the town of ruby into a panic. In python II another plane charging another giant smaller mutated snake is shoot down while fly over Russian territory. The snake is loose and wipes on an entire Russian base with only its head of the base survives the first on slaughter. As a result we have not one but two 80 foot to tong snakes are lost. Enter agent Larson who is sent to retrieve the DNA. Agent Larson is the cop that was in the first python if you did not see it there also is a flash back showing him getting excepted into the FBI. Larson recruits to Russian citizens to hale a cargo which is not revealed right away back to the united states. All hell breaks loose again. With more fire fights and more fantastic creature violence makes it even better than the first one can they put a stop two this second incursion of mutated snakes find out in the thrilling conclusion. If you like this I also recommend boa, Anaconda ,Anacondas Hunt for Blood orchid, Lake placid, and King Cobra.
January 2, 2008

HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!

this was a terrible sequel to a pretty good movie. it begins with a group of russian soldiers and an american commander leading them, how chessy, go looking for the snake to capture it and make some dough. they are successful at doing so but when they get it on a plane and ship it to america some dumb russians come along and shoot the plane down.then they bring it to some facility. when greg larson(zabka) finds out that the snake got out he tries to find it and kill it. he takes a few tourists along with him(ashbrook) and some other russian person and go hunting for it. the weirdest thing is the 2nd snake. it justs comes out of no where all of a sudden. he all of a sudden comes along when the other snake gets 1 of the guys and starts eating him and the other snake juts comes out of no where and starts eatin him 2. in genereal this was a horrible movie with awful effects and terrible acting. for the love of god do not see this movie. May 16, 2006

It watched it on fast forward!

Except for two cuties: William Zabka and Dana Ashbrook! Especially Dana who constantly having a hard-on! September 7, 2005

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