Pythons 2

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Pythons 2

DVD cover
Written by Jeff Rank
Directed by Lee McConnell
Starring William Zabka
Dana Ashbrook
Alex Jolig
Simmone Jade Mackinnon
Music by Rich McHugh
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English, Russian, Chechen
Production
Producer(s) Jeffery Beach
Phillip Roth
Cinematography Azusa Ohno
Editor(s) Ayton Davis
Running time 89 minutes
Production company(s) UFO/Unified Film Organization Python Productions
Release
Original network Sci Fi Channel
Original release
  • August 17, 2002 (2002-08-17)

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Pythons 2 (also known as Pythons, released on home media as Python II and sometimes listed in references as Python 2[2]), is a science-fiction/horror film released as a Sci Fi Pictures television film on the Sci Fi Channel. A 2002 sequel to the 1999 film Python, it stars Billy Zabka, reprising his role as Greg Larson from the first film, Dana Ashbrook and Simmone Jade Mackinnon. Directed by Lee McConnell, it was produced by Jeffery Beach and Phillip Roth for UFO/Unified Film Organization and Python Productions. This film was dedicated to Janine Clark, who died somewhere in 2001.

Plot

One of a pair of giant bioengineered pythons with acidic venom and armor-like skin, created by a Russian and American joint military operation led by U.S. Army Colonel Robert Evans Jefferson, Jr. (Marcus Aurelius), escapes into Russia's Ural Mountains. Jefferson and his team go to retrieve it, but the plane carrying the captured python is shot down by Chechen terrorists, Russian troops led by Colonel Zubov (Ivaylo Geraskov) arrive, killing the terrorists and recapturing the python. However, they find disaster in a clandestine Russian military base, where the creature slaughters all the soldiers and scientists. The only survivor in the Military base is Colonel Zubov.

American Dwight Stoddard (Dana Ashbrook) and his Russian wife, Nalia (Simmone Jade Mackinnon,) run a shipping business in Russia. Greg Larson (Billy Zabka, reprising his role from Python) hires them to move some mysterious container, which is holding another larger python, and they reach the isolated and deserted Russian military base where they discover Zubov. Larson's primary concern is retrieving the snakes' DNA, and he begins to kill his own men in the attempt. After being discovered about his true intentions by Dwight and Nalia, Larson engages Dwight in a fist fight. During the fight, Larson gets suffocated by the first snake and dies while begging for help. The snake is killed when an explosive is hurled into its mouth by Dwight, while the other snake chases Dwight and Nalia through a land mine field and gets itself blown up by the explosives. Dwight and Nalia survive, and are rescued by Russian soldiers.

Cast

Production

Pythons 2 was filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria. The visual effects supervisor was Alvaro Villagomez, the character animation supervisor as Yancy Calzada, and the digital effects supervisor was Florentino Calzada.[1]

Reception

The DVD & Video Guide 2005 describes the movie as beginning "on a boring note and goes downhill from there".[3] Doug Pratt states that Zabka's performance appears as if "he had sat through too many Emillio Esteves films"[4] and calls the cinematography of the DVD transfer "grainy".[4] The Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2005 gave the film its lowest rating on a 5-point scale.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Pythons 2". Official site (Sci Fi Channel). Archived from the original on February 12, 2003.
  2. ↑ rottentomatoes.com
  3. ↑ DVD & video guide 2005 by Mick Martin, Marsha Porter
  4. 1 2 Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More! Doublas Pratt
  5. ↑ Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2005 Jim Craddock. The score is a "woof!", on a scale that is either 1-4 "bones" or "woof!"
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