Giant-snake snoozer that somehow failed to
destroy Jennifer Lopez' acting ambitions. On an Amazon riverboat
expedition, she's a photographer who canoodles with
anthropologist Eric Stoltz while the cast gets squeezed and eaten
by the title creature in increasingly gory special-effects
sequences. Despite nice performances by Ice Cube as the
cameraman, Owen Wilson as the loudmouth demolitions expert, and
Jon Voight as the creepy snake expert they pick up on the way,
there's not much to see, and what's there is entirely
predictable. Eight dead bodies. One dead monkey. One suicide.
Panther-munching. Wild-boar-devouring. Head-eating snake.
Multiple snake-cam attacks. Gratuitous spearfishing. Eyeball
rolls. Snake-gullet cam. Closeup tracheotomy! Pickaxe to the
flaming snake head. With Jonathan Hyde as the bibulous opera-
loving Englishman, Kari Wuhrer as the bimbo who gets leg-choked
to death. 
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