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1996 - 96m.

Grade-"D" cheese. Doctor Mark Dacascos making good out in the Amazon has to take-on an apparently immortal mythological monster that's been brought to life by baddie Jurgen Prochnow who wants to sell it to foreign countries as the ultimate killing machine.

Dumb Predator clone suffers badly due to its derriative and poorly done script that has throw-away characters who are supposed to be important to the story but disappear at stretches without any concern from the other characters and top it all off with the passable (but admitedly not as bad as it could've been) creature design and a totally uncharismatic hero.

For some reason Dacascos doffs his shirt for the final show-down with the monster. Let's not forget the rampant copying from Predator in the finale as Dascascos sets up tree-trunk traps and dives off a cliff into a large body of water to escape the monster.

Do not watch DNA.

Directed By: William Mesa.
Written By: Nick Davis.

Starring: Mark Dacascos, Jurgen Prochnow, Robin McKee, Thomas Taus Jr.