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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.

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.