agremlin82
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERSPut down the remote, back away slowly and nobody gets hurt!!! OH-MY-GOD!!! I Personally love Treat Williams movies, but after seeing Venomous, it's quite clear that his agent needs to be fired. The acting from just about all is bad..., really bad. The script is hideous, or dare I say "Venomous". Still, I was transfixed with this train wreck of a movie and had to see just really how bad it could get. It's quite fair to say that I wasn't disappointed. The Horror...Although I wasn't expecting Othello, I also didn't expect a script written by Butters from South Park. This was award winningly awful. Just some of the problems I have of the script and there are quite a few, but I limit my disdain for these 6: (1) Gas masks protect you from gas, not a living biological contagion. (2) If you have military soldiers standing guard outside a door to say, a hospital and someone fires a handgun within that hospital, they will react, very quickly and very violently and not standing like human doorstops with live weapons. (3) In the moron family's attempt to run the roadblock they almost collide with oncoming traffic on the way out, yet a few hundred yards down the road they find the road is a complete dead end. A few questions there is where did the oncoming traffic come from on a dead end road and if you're a resident in that area and you're making an escape from the military quarantine, what kind of idiots plan their escape down a dead end road? (4) Another reviewer mentioned the hundreds of snakes simply materializing behind Treat on a floor that was clear seconds before, but Kudos for Mr. Williams actually handling what appears to be a live snake, although it could have been chilled before hand to slow it's defensive reactions to being picked up in the tunnel, but in that scene he enters what looks to be an old abandoned mine in a dirt clearing, the entrance of it made with old wood pylons, yet seconds later he's in a well maintained concrete tunnel which includes electric lighting and modern pipes running along the wall as if he's in a modern building. (5) The initial research center where the snakes were housed is blown up, yet the snakes 10 years later appear beneath a decades old garage in a completely different town. Doesn't it seem strange they'd crawl who knows how many miles beneath the surface to this remote town and had never come up once where the original high-security holding facility was? and "The Biggie" (6), I was expecting the snakes to show up on the helicopter in the end to dispatch the Bad Guy, but when filmed during take off the floor was absolutely clean. No place for a reptile to hide and all of a sudden, they're wrapped around the guys feet. Additionally the helicopter seems to transform from a small 5 seat A Star with landing skids to what appears to be a much larger HH-3 Pelican with wheels instead of skids during the explosion and crash. Not even did they spring for file footage of a similar type aircraft crash. This is like a volkswagen beetle turning into a 8 passenger van. Jeeze, come on!! This was obviously a very poor rip off of Outbreak's script. At least Outbreak had a modicum of science behind they're script. This was just awful. My sincere condolences to Mr. Treat Williams. He, as well as the viewing public deserve better.
ruskinlacelady
If you're a fan of disaster movies, you'll enjoy this one. Acting by the principal characters was excellent, except for Anthony Denison who couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. He provides the comic relief, and the lines he had to recite were ludicrous. An interesting subplot between the two principal characters carries the movie. If you like to watch the science in these movies, there's an error in the premise. You don't get antibodies from the snake venom. You get them from the bloodstream. But it wouldn't have been half as fun watching them try to draw blood from a snake as to milk it for venom. This movie was great fun to watch.
Dr. Gore
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*The video box cover for this one is amazingly similar to the cover of "Silent Predators". Both covers have a giant snake head lunging at you. I don't know who's ripping off who. I do know that I will rent any movie with a vicious snake attacking me.Snakes crawl around town biting people and infecting them with their toxic venom. The snakes are "Venomous". The doctor is looking for answers and everyone is stonewalling him.Don't be fooled by the drooling giant snake head on the video box cover. This is not a horror movie. This is a medical thriller that just happens to have nasty snakes as the source of the infection. "Venomous" is a competently made B-movie. It didn't hurt me too much. But I was hoping for more horror in my giant snake head movie. Instead I got Doctor Do-Right and his quest for a snake bite cure. Not the snake movie I was hoping for. 3/10.
moviebee
This was a movie very similar to "Outbreak". Its an OK movie, its entertainment. But it doesn't score that high points with me. Not that bad acting though. The movie had some strange events which I must conclude as errors. Like meeting cars on a closed road for example. You're always one step ahead of the plot.