The first Anaconda I was not blown away by, the second had me entertained and the third was horrendous. The fourth was better than the previous instalment but in almost every way it is still poppycock. Crystal Allen returns and she is decent and John Rhys-Davies tries hard with his weak material and underwritten character, but that is pretty much the only praise I can give. The scenery/sets I suppose were sort of nice, but they were not given any justice by the dull photography and hackneyed editing. The music is generic and forgettable again, the effects are not that great and don't do anything to enhance any suspense in the atmosphere. The direction is also sloppy, the dialogue is awful with none of it ringing true and the story is an incoherent mess. The acting apart from Allen and Rhys-Davies is very poor and not helped by the fact that there are too many characters so any empathy we try to feel doesn't come out. Overall, a mess but better than the third. 2/10 Bethany Cox

ANACONDA III: OFFSPRING was a surprisingly entertaining little B-movie sequel, packed with cheesy actors, silly dialogue and gobs of gratuitous gore which went a long way into making it a passable piece of fun. Sadly, ANACONDA 4: TRAIL OF BLOOD seems to have forgotten all of the lessons of his predecessor (with which it was shot back-to-back). It's like somebody took the third film and sucked all the life and fun out of it, leaving this a dessicated husk of a film.

Much of the fun from the last instalment came about due to David Hasselhoff's unlikely turn as a big game hunter, but there's no such luminary here, apart from one-time action man Linden Ashby. Ashby is woodenly horrible, while returning female lead Crystal Allen seems to have exhausted her acting repertoire in the last movie leaving her lifeless. Still, at least John Rhys-Davies is back, albeit in a cameo which nicely ties up the fate of his stock mad scientist type character.

The plot is slimmer than ever, featuring various good guys and bad guys hunting for a genetically modified super-snake which kills off various "redshirt" characters throughout. Sadly, much of the last film's gore quotient is gone, replaced here with B-movie level incident that just isn't on the same scale. Meanwhile, the special effects are pretty bad. About the only superior thing ANACONDA 4 has compared to number three is that the human villains are more interesting, but it's not enough to make this one work.

Well obviously not - with horror there is never the end. Not really ever in any case. Although thankfully some movies have been left alone. But this is the end of the "story" that began with Part 3. And while the other two movies prior had nothing to do with the last two ... there is an obvious connection here. Still you could watch this, without having seen the other. On the other hand, why watch any of the two (part 3 and 4 that is)? Better watch 1 & 2.

Having said, I assume you have seen the third or don't care enough reading this, otherwise jump this paragraph. David Hasselhoff is no more, but we still have the driving force of John Rhys Davies here - or Gimli as some might still call him. Don't think this will bring him down .. bad jokes aside (which you will get a few of in the movie too),the CGI is bad and the acting isn't really helpful either. Considering the time and budget they had (same director as in 3 and was shot back to back with almost no time to prepare),some departments did a lot more than they got paid for ... it is what is, I guess