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Summary: Swiss cheese has fewer holes than this story
Review: This has got to be THE worst movie I have ever seen, with the exception of Hardware. In no particular order, here is what stood out to me about the sheer stupidity of the story: The russian woman who managed to stay alive for a week after the ship was initially taken over: She managed to cut off the power to the alien, so why didn't she destroy the computer it was inhabiting? The crew: They allow themselves to be sent through a typhoon by a clearly unstable captain. No background: Who are these people? The navigator (Jamie Lee) is ex-navy we learn thru a picture in the background. One guy is ex-navy also apparently. He mentions being a Ordnance Specialist at one point. So whats he doing on the crew? Apparently being a Ordnance Specialist makes one a mechanical genius capable of creating an escape device out of a rocket and spare parts. Everytime the crew are attacked by a "monster" they attempt to shoot it dead even though it has no substantial body. Its also established early that the way it is kept under control of the alien entity is by a mass of cables dragging behind the "monster". So why not chop the cables? Would that be TOO easy? The high point of the movie? The ending credits.
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Summary: waste of time
Review: Do yourself a favour and don't watch this. A bad plot and mediocre effects mixed with average acting from Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland. If you want sci-fi stick to X-files or Star Trek (not this tragedy!)
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Summary: who was the VIRUS?
Review: I liked it, for me this was somehow new, and DTS was there to compliment the movie. It was judicious to choose a decent cast because in such close atmosphere it needs to be convincing which it nearly did actually, I thought it was interesting to see what can be done with mecano parts.... ;-) and a bit of gore nevr hurt anyone, except the character pulled apart of course! huhuhuhu. the boat could have been a tiny bit better simulated for the fifth star, but we startled in our seat a couple of time...though!
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Summary: I NEED SOME MEDICINE AFTER WATCHING THIS VIRUS !
Review: This is one of the worst science-horror movies I've ever seen, what is a sad thing, because the cast, with Curtis, W.Baldwin and D. Sutherland, is very good to a production in which you see, since the cover, that is low-budget. The movie itself has no absurd flaw (it's natural to this genre to be absurd, so nothing is strange. That's what I mean). The problem is the total lack of rhythm and acting that the director didn't extract from them.
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Summary: LOosing conscience....
Review: What the hell are people thinking about when they do accept to shoot a sscript like this? "Science fiction-terror" is a genre very difficult to make, so it's not rare to make a total failure. THis is the case. THe production seems like made for cable, the actors seem to have a wish to laugh all the time, the "metal monsters" are unconvincing. Well, I liked nothing in it.
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Summary: HELLO ? IS THERE ANYBODY THERE !
Review: THis is almost unbeliavable ! I think William Baldwin stil has time to turn around his career and get away from lousy productions like that. I like horror, but this is a completely heartless production, from a director who is beginning at this job. Sutherland is in his "Michael Caine" phase, accepting any script they offer him, what is a great thing, because producers generally have prejudice with older actors. About Curtis, I think she did great, because she didn't try to develop a character which had absolutely nothing to develop. Now, let's talk about the movie. The plot is ludicrous, nobody explains what were the reasons of the aliens. But there is one good point: at the end, there was absolutely no clue that we may have a sequence ! Great!
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Summary: Choose another movie
Review: I HAVE to say this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Spend your money somewhere else.
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Summary: Blah, blah, blah...
Review: Here's a movie that takes the worst excesses of comic books while retaining none of the charm. Piling on the gore and SFX, but without a real protagonist in the whole film, Virus is Z-grade filmmaking with an A-list cast that shows itself capable of C-grade performances. Donald Sutherland takes on yet another subhuman, seething, completely amoral villain role with no grace, subtlety, or depth of any sort. Jamie Lee Curtis, supposedly the "moral" one in the movie, is given absolutely nothing to do -- she has no revelations, no development, no internal conflicts, no arc whatsoever. And most of the time she runs around the ship looking scared, like Laurie Strode from Halloween, except without the resourcefulness. It says loads about the general acting in your movie when the standout is actually Joanna Pacula, somewhat watchable as a Russian scientist who's in the know about the alien that's taken over the ship. And the script is a mess, offering not a single moment of believability, but piling on the smartass dialogue and boyish bravado that all rings hollow without the necessary thematic weight to support all the mayhem. Don't let the slam-bang trailer and name cast fool you -- avoid, avoid, avoid.
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Summary: What a gore fest
Review: Man, I just about puked when the scene with the machines slicing up bodies for spare parts came up. This movie is hardly a rip-off though. The plot is as original as can be. How do you know whether or not the writers had had this idea on their own, and it just happened to be like a Jim Cameron film? An alien lifeform comes to Earth in electrical form, almost impossible to battle because it can find a new mechanic host whenever it pleases. I don't want to spoil it, but I'll just say that the ending was completely wrong. It's one of those movies that's a good rental, but will sit on your shelf indefinately if you buy it.
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Summary: a terrible dissapointment
Review: When this movie first came out i couldnt wait to see it. After all it starred JAMIE LEE CURTIS and who could forget her roles in all of the awesome HALLOWEEN movies. Well lets just say this movie came nowhere near the awesomeness of the HALLOWEEN movies.On top of the bad script the acting sucked. The fact that JAMIE LEE CURTIS is in this movie is about the only redeeming part of this god awful movie.If i were you i wouldnt waste my money on this one!
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