Review of King Cobra

This is a pretty bad killer-snake movie. Mad scientist fooling around accidentally creates killer snake. It's a fairly slow-paced movie, but there is an interesting cast with Pat Morita and an amusing cameo from Erik Estrada playing a gay festival organizer. There are also some lines that are derivative of "Jaws," (i.e., "We're going to neeed bigger guns") and the movie is on the whole quite similar to "Jaws," except of course with a killer snake. The special effects are ordinary, and even though it's a horror movie the directors seem to take extreme steps to avoid showing violence. There is only one good reason to watch this movie, and that is the beautiful Kasey Fallo, who plays the deputy sheriff. She does a good job, and as in her other movie "Pinata: Survival Island" she is scrappy and finds a way to survive in the end. Basically, two scenes stand out in my mind. 1) When Kasey Fallo tries to get the Scott Brandon love-interest guy to stay in their small town (prior to Seth the Snake's rampage), he goes on a tirade about how he hates the town and wants to be a big-shot city doctor. And he does so with all the passion of a guy who's reading a telepromptor. 2) Pat Morita starts questioning the scientist about why we wanted to cross-breed two deadly snakes, and the two look as if they're about to get into a throw-down brawl. Then Pat puts on his "Karate Kid" hat and spends the next five minutes talking about "respecting" the snake. I would give this movie a 3, because it's pretty bad, but the lovely Kasey's appearance motivates me to move it up to a 4.