I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Best movie ever!

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

VIPERS is just another in a recent wave of schlocky monster movies that appear to have been made for the Sci-Fi Channel in the USA. Like all TV movies, with invariably low budgets and a lack of taste, VIPERS does nothing to buck the trend and in the end is nothing more than a mundane outing for horror fans. Once again, the monster of the day is your humble snake, almost exclusively brought to the screen via some quite horrible CGI effects which are never able to turn a cartoon menace into a remotely plausible threat. Snakes have been a perennial favourite for decades now in horror flicks but their presence here is perfunctory at beast.Once again a disparate group of survivors find themselves holed up against the threat, hiding in a burger wagon amongst other places! Liberal gallons of blood are splashed about during the messy death sequences but poor editing robs them of any gore-for-gore's-sake joy. One thing VIPERS has going for it is the pacing: unlike many such movies, following their strict template of first half set-up, second half action, this one kicks in with plenty of stuff right away and never lets up until the end. Okay, so what happens on screen is pretty unbelievable and/or boring, but at least it happens quickly.The cast could be worse, too. Headlining this effort is Tara Reid, once-famous for her role in the American PIE movies. Sadly, not even ten years later, her looks have faded as has her star, and her poor acting helps to sink the movie. The rest of the cast are a typical bunch of TV actor types, with a few veterans like the excellent Don S. Davis popping up to mix things up. Corbin Bernsen is top-billed but has little more than an extended cameo as the head bad guy. He goes get to take part in the funny, out-of-left-field twist ending, though, which makes no sense whatsoever.Fans looking for snake action will be disappointed. The big action climax, complete with flamethrowers and plenty of drama, takes place in near pitch darkness and the snakes are barely scene. I did enjoy the viciousness with which the film-makers took most of the extraneous cast to pieces but such moments are countered by pure silliness. The snakes, for instance, always scream when they're getting killed; how or why I don't know, but I guess it has to do with their genetic modification. No matter. VIPERS is one for genre fans only, and even they'll be hard pressed to extract enjoyment from this below par effort.

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

From the short description I read it sounded like some Anaconda rip-off made for TV, it turned out, that is exactly what is was, just with more snakes. Basically a large amount of vipers have been taken by scientists to be experimented on to find a breakthrough, it all goes wrong when some criminals unintentionally break the glass and the snakes escape. At a big meeting, Burton (The Dentist's Corbin Bernsen), who is in charge of the research, explains that these vipers have been genetically enhanced in order to create a cure for breast cancer. Now slithering their way to a near isolated lake town, the residents, including Nicky Swift (American Pie's Tara Reid) who works at the hotel, are unaware of the danger. One or two people fall victim to the terror these venomous mutated creatures bring, but the townspeople are still not sure what is going on, only that some people have snake bites that need antidote injected. Soon enough everyone is on the run from the vipers, trapping themselves in the hotel, and trying to get help or escape the danger. Burton does find out about the snakes escaping from the medical research facility, and he does get in touch with one of the people caught in the chaos, but he dismisses the problem for the benefit of the research. In the end the vipers are all blown up with a combination of light and gas in the hotel, and Burton gets what coming to him too when the meeting people overhear his earlier conversation. Also starring Jonathan Scarfe as Cal Taylor, Genevieve Buechner as Maggie Martin, Stephen E. Miller as Hank Brownie, Jessica Steen as Dr. Collins, Don S. Davis as Dr. Silverton, Mark Humphrey as Sheriff Hendricks, Aaron Pearl as Jack Martin and Claire Rankin as Ellie Martin. It is shame that Reid, one of the fittest of the girls in the great teen sex comedy has gone so downhill, she is rather dull, and Bernsen doesn't do much either, all the other cast members are silly and predictable too. The blood amount is fair, but the special effects involved for making the snakes look deadly and terrifying is just terrible, it isn't scary, it feels like something made for TV, and it is just an overly boring and awful horror thriller. Poor!

I was utterly shocked about how bad this movie was. The all-around stupidity of it is just flooring. The first hour is basically a soap opera with some absolutely unrealistic death-by-snake scenes injected into the various subplots of who is sleeping with whom and who is mourning whom, blah blah blah. The deaths are totally unbelievable because the snakes jump, fly, scream, and devour human bodies in mere minutes. Granted, they are genetically engineered, but COME ON! Combine that with a mindless script, terrible acting, and bloopers such as no snakes on a bridge followed by dozens of snakes on the bridge a few seconds later... and you've got yourself one heck of a loser flick. Another shining example of the human ingenuity here is when the survivors are all holed up in the "hotel" (which looks more like a restaurant), and they've had quite a bit of time to fortify their location. However, everyone overlooked the gap between the floor and the bottom of the door, through which several bad CGI snakes strike before someone gets the bright idea of plugging it up. Brilliant.I must admit to chuckling at the howling death screams of the snakes. That fact, however, does not in any way restore this film to a rating higher than 1. And poor Don S. Davis... why? Why? Why would you be part of this rubbish??? I guess I'm just tired of these motherf------ snakes in this motherf------ film! ;)