silent predator start on a dark night somewhere on a lonely road in southern califonia where a flat bed truck be drive along carry a wooden crate with the word venomous reptile handle with extreme care stencil on it in big red lettering ( . ) . the driver ( dominic purcell ) stop and give a lift to a strand motorist ( paul tessone ) and the motorist ask what in the crate and the driver say it a huge snake . shortly after a tyre on the truck blow and cause the truck to crash and after kill the two men the venomous snake escape . jump 20 year later and the to the small american town of san catalano and the new fire chief vic rondelli ( harry hamlin ) have just arrive to take over from his retire counterpart george ( beau billingslea ) . the town be hold some sort of fête so vic take the opportunity to introduce himself to the local and while vic talk lover lacey ( nathalie roy ) and jake ( daniel murphy ) disappear into the nearby forest where jake be bite by an aggressive rattlesnake and die almost instantly . more people fall victim to the deadly snake that have be disturb by housing construction a vic and pr executive mandy stratford ( shannon sturges ) try to alert the town and however greedy property developer max farrington ( jack scalia ) and mayor parker ( david spielberg ) want everything hush hush to avoid bad publicity . direct by noel nosseck i think silent predator be average at best . the script by john carpenter ( if you can believe that ) and william s. gilmore and matt dorff be a clichéd and predictable and strictly by the number a be possible . the character for instance and the selfish businessman who want to keep everything quiet because of his investment and the mayor who fear for the town economy and the unflappable hero with personal problem who nobody take seriously at first and the blonde female who fall for the hero and just tag along for no apparent reason other than to be put in mortal danger so the hero can save and get the girl at the end and the disposable character who be there to keep the body count go but add nothing else whatsoever to the story and the scientist expert who happen to be a personal mate of the hero and know everything about the creature or monster ( depend upon film ) and the central threat itself and in this case snake and that pop up occasionally to kill someone . theyre all here and present and correct . everything you would expect to happen do and the nest be disturb and a few death and the hero figure it out and the female get into trouble and the hero save the day . silent predator doesn not have an original bone in it body and have say that i find it sort of watchable on a really dumb level . director nosseck doesn not do anything special with the film and it have no real style or flair to it although it do look a little good than it low budget make for tv origin would suggest . there be no gore and decent scare and excitement and the thing be rather flat . the film never use the snake to their full potential either and there be no tension during the infrequent attack and they aren not scary . for some reason silent predator be shoot in australia even though it be an american produced and finance film supposedly set in america . figure that out . with a budget that probably do not amount to a hill of bean silent predator best asset be it nice australian location and the photography be above average for a tv film and i suppose it generally well make if extremely lifeless and flat . the act isn not of a very high standard which should come a no surprise . silent predator doesn not do anything wrong in itself and it just that it so unoriginal and clichéd that you will have probably see every part of this film or character somewhere else . only worth bother with if your absolutely desperate or can see it on tv ( where it firmly belong very late at night ) for free . oh and and one more thing why be this call silent predator when it feature rattlesnake . i mean rattlesnake be probably the noisy snake ever and right .