Vipers (2008)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Best movie of this year hands down!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Arriving to be the town's new doctor in the Pacific Northwest, a local finds the townspeople suddenly bombarded by a series of attacks by a special breed of genetically-engineered vipers that are used in the making of a miracle cancer drug, and soon helps them get away from the deadly creatures.This one wasn't bad at all, and actually had some good parts to it. One of the best parts is that the film really gets a lot of good stuff from the snakes in here, starting with the fact that real snakes are used for the majority of the scenes here, as this a big step up from the usual Sci-Fi Channel scenes where the obviously fake creatures are shown, and showing the real snakes being in the action makes them work nicely. The fact the snakes are shown with a love to swarm victims and attack in high numbers is another big positive, which makes them really dangerous and allows for some pretty good scenes. There's a lot of fun to get from that behavior with plenty of biting all over the body, a savage-looking feasting sequence and rather good stalking scenes in here making for a series of pretty tense showings. The last plus is that there's a lot of action present in the film, as the snakes here are loose really early, tending to a lot of big scenes here. The initial attack on the town is pretty well-done including where they're forced to take cover despite not knowing what's going on that includes several really good sequences, from the attack at the police station to the cover in the van and finally the big part, where they find themselves forced out of the van and across the ground to shelter nearby with the snakes nipping and leading at everything that moves. There's also plenty of fun to be had from the opening in the lab when they get loose and the big attack at the bridge, while the ending attacks are the most fun. There's several fun swarming scenes on the escaping townspeople, a couple of inventive scenes that show them all battling back at the snakes, and all of the fun of the confrontation in the greenhouse is superb. From the stalking of the victims through the walkways through to the way the snakes are always present and manage to present great obstacles for them, and along with the fun kills present in the scene, and film overall, make for some fun times. While these are what make it really fun and enjoyable, there wasn't much else wrong with this one. The biggest issue here is the usual flaw regarding Sci-Fi Channel films about the utterly atrocious special effects for the snakes is still in effect for this one. The snakes in here, despite looking much better than usual, is still plagued by the fact that most of the time they still look patently fake when the snakes are active and moving about, which is where the fake-ness of them comes about most clearly. They don't look too bad when they're merely staying still, but moving around is not when they look good at all. The other flaw to this one is the fact that there's way too much family drama going on at the beginning of the film. These are in no way interesting or exciting, and all they do is make the film a pain at the beginning, not something that starts off the film on a good note. These here are the film's problems.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.

There is a break in the Universal BioTech laboratory and vipers escape. The CEO Burton (Corbin Bernsen) seeks out Dr. Vera Collins (Jessica Steen), who is researching the healing of breast cancer using the vipers' venom, and tells that the secret facility was researching enhanced vipers to produce more venom.Meanwhile in the peaceful island Eden Cove, in the Pacific Northwest, the vipers attack the residents. The newcomer doctor Cal Taylor (Jonathan Scarfe), who has come from the army, leads a small group of survivors to attract the vipers and save the locals from complete destruction and they discover an evil plan of Burton and his chief of security John Staffen (Michael Kopsa). "Vipers" is a silly B-movie with a terrible conclusion. After the death of most of the residents, Nicky is happy in love with Cal and the annoying Maggie, who has just lost her parents, is smiling with Dr. Silverton. This is enough to qualify this movie as stupid and ridiculous. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "O Ataque das Víboras" ("The Vipers Attack")

Vipers was yet another movie that I watched with little else to do, and while I wasn't expecting much other than a cheesy but entertaining movie I wasn't anticipating it to be this bad. The sheer awfulness and artificiality of the special effects were in all honesty scarier than the snakes, who were the anti-thesis of menacing and poorly utilised, and the entire movie even. The editing is choppy at best and the lighting gives the film an overly-drab look. The actors I have seen before, and they are mostly acceptable to good, but here they don't have much to work with(a couple especially even disappear without a trace) and their acting suffers consequently, coming across as bland. Thw script, story and the characters were the biggest let-downs. The script is terrible, very cheesy, stilted and aimless, and the story complete with a lack of suspense, clichéd sub-plots, predictable death scenes and dull pacing left me completely disengaged. Overall, ridiculously awful. 1/10 Bethany Cox

The tagline says 'First Comes The Slither, Then Comes The Slaughter', but it could easily be changed to 'Then Comes The Yawner. Because that is what this film exactly did. It bore me to death.Yeah, people could argue that B-movies aren't suppose to stimulate you, and the only reason directors direct these kind of films is to kill your time on a Sunday morning is just wrong. I mean, there are other B-films that is as good as the mainstream films, except that these films are produced on a smaller budget and not as widely promoted.But I digress.I spent an hour or so watching this film, hoping that it will get better. Sadly, it did not. I was disappointed at the plot dynamics (or the lack of it), the annoying snakes, and the unreal storyline.I am hoping that others will watch other films instead, or if you have watch the other films, maybe cleaning your backyard and/or planting new trees on your garden is not such a bad idea.