Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004).All in all mildly entertaining, if not unrealistic and clich`ed. It does have language, though I am unsure how much and how strong it is, as my family owns a device (TV Guardian) that filters foul language. Sexual content is limited to some mild innuendo and a few low cut tank tops. As you can well imagine, it does have its share of violence, but I donвЂ™t recall anything overtly explicit or graphic. Throw in a hungry throng of alarmingly massive anacondas and a greedy team member, and youвЂ™ve pretty much summed up the movie. HereвЂ™s the catch the flower is only in bloom for one more week before it closes up and stays that way for seven more years. Not ones to pass up a chance to become potential billionaires, the company executives hire a team of professionals to embark on a mission into a primitive Borneo jungle and find and harvest said flower. Neutral-The plot for Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is fairly simple: A major pharmaceutical company learns that a rare flower(the blood orchid) that is supposedly a floral version of the fountain of youth is in bloom. Read our review of the first film in this series: Anaconda Violence: Extreme / Profanity: Moderate / Sex/Nudity: Mild

I found the use of graphic shots of numerous, realistic, dead human bodies very disturbing and disrespectful. Parents are warned that this is an R movie in every way. I was disappointed in the cruelty depicted between the humans (not so much by the animals). There are intense multiple shots of human remains and suffering, and human betrayal of the worst kind. There is animal-to-people violence, and people-to-people violence-all very graphic. This is a movie that would easily have received an R-rating before they loosened the standards. There is reference to sex and drugs in the first few minutes, and more references to unsavory and sinful sex later in the movie. The language is crude throughout, and there is one rude gesture. Nudity is limited to a little cleavage, and for the most part, the female characters are treated with respect. The rest of the movie does strive to look realistic, like the jerry-rigged riverboat which is a floating junkyard, and the continuingly deteriorating state of the actorвЂ™s costumes and hair. I kept waiting for a satisfying shot of the head of the snake so I could look into its eyes and see the power and coldness, but never got that pleasure. The giant snake moved too fast to be real, and never looked really believable to me. There are some heroic acts and characters, but in my mind, not nearly enough to make this movie worth watching. There is little time for character development in this movie because there is so much action, and not much time to take a breath between each hair-raising episode. Finally, they meet virtually insurmountable obstacles blocking them from their prize, the rarified Blood Orchid that blooms only once every seven years. When the movie begins, the river trip seems like it could be rather routine, but as things progress, the seekers run into increasing difficulties.

The Borneo river jungle setting looks very authentic and packs a good wallop even without the centerpiece, the huge CG snake who plays the title role. But soon (when they are exhausted, terrified, and desperate), they end up feeling very differently about their common dream. A motley crew of characters join together for an expedition, and, at first, they all have the same goal, to make a huge amount of money. вЂњAnanacondasвЂќ is an adventure movie with some terrifying twists and turns that may keep you perpetually on the edge of your theater seat.

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