Review of Boa vs. Python

I will start by saying, I was anticipating worse. Any low-budget film that has vs in the middle of its title, and I know from experience from watching the likes of Dinocroc vs Supergator, leaves me dubious. While not a good or great movie, there is something watchable about it. Visually, it actually doesn't look all that bad, the photography and editing are quite good, quite a remarkable feat seeing as I saw several low-budget movies in a row where they were problematic, and the effects, excepting the ridiculously over-sized python, while not great as such are a cut above the cheaply rendered ones I've seen recently. The locations are also quite striking. However, the script reeks of cheese and is incredibly amateurish, the story is illogical and sluggish complete with unconvincing action scenes and one underwhelming and tension-less battle between the snakes and the characters are stereotypical and made to do moronic things. The acting is also pretty poor, some of the actors are attractive but not much is done to go beyond that. In conclusion, a bad movie but not quite bad enough to be a terrible one. 4/10 Bethany Cox