New Alcatraz (2001)

User Rating:

3.3/10   

Director:

Phillip J. Roth

Writers:

Terri Neish (writer)
Phillip J. Roth (story)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

12,000 feet below the Antarctic ice, it lays in wait.

Plot:

In the highest security prison for the world's deadliest criminals, a team digs up the remains of a violent ancient creature that isn't quite dead...

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Sergeant | Snake | Boa Constrictor

Cast

Dean Cain	...	Dr. Robert Trenton
Elizabeth Lackey	...	Dr. Jessica Platt-Trenton
Mark Sheppard	...	Yuri
Dean Biasucci	...	Major Larsten
Craig Wasson	...	Warden Fred Riley
Grand L. Bush	...	Sergeant Quinn
Richard Tanner	...	Peter Yuvol
Amandah Reyne	...	Patricia O'Boyle
Greg Collins	...	Scott Poluso
Gary Hershberger	...	Goodman
Dana Ashbrook	...	Kelly Mitich
Robert Madrid	...	Jose
Chris Ufland	...	Jenkins
Christopher Michael	...	Captain Thomas
Marcus Aurelius	...	C-123 Pilot

Also Known As:

Boa (Canada: English title) (DVD title) (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some violence.

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Canada:14A | Argentina:13 | Germany:12 | USA:R (certificate #37540) | Australia:M | UK:15

Company:

Cell Block Productions Inc.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The guard tells Yuri that he's "20 miles north of the south pole". This isn't an actual geographic location. Once you are standing on the south pole, you can walk 20 miles in any direction and you are going north.

Movie Connections:

References Jurassic Park (1993)

Do you need planning permission in Antarctica?

If I was going to build a maximum-security prison I'd build it in Slough, that way the convicts would be safer inside the jail and not try to escape.

But does the American government ever listen to me? No they don't and shame on them! I've emailed George Bush at least a dozen times with my plans for a coal powered time machine and get NO response. If you're reading this George, when I've got it working I'm going back in time and punching a few extra holes in Al Gores cards! I know he'd listen!

But I digress. Anyway you shouldn't build a maximum-security prison in Antarctica because everybody knows there are snakes trapped under the ice there that are 100ft long. But the American government ignores common sense and does it anyway. When will they learn? I mean I saw the plan that they came up with in Deep Impact to stop the comet (which was laughable) and their attempt to capture the Predator in Predator 2 was weak at best, so who comes up with these ideas?

Anyway things go wrong, which I could have told them was going to happen, and a giant snake (surprise, surprise) starts eating people. Luckily Dean Cain shows up. At this point I was pretty sure that everyone was doomed, but plucky Dean and his wife manage to outsmart the snake and save everybody. Well, maybe not everybody. Actually it's just themselves, but the other people were criminals so they deserved death.

So my embiggened marking systems records Boa (as it is called in the UK) as having achieved 7 Gi-ants (which is a combination of two words giant and ants. Gi-ants. Clever eh?) which is a universally acknowledged as being good. The name is accurate and there are some reasonable costumes.