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Summary: A true suspense film.
Review: This movie is of a microbiological Armageddon which unfolds with such perfectly metered suspense that no matter how many times you watch it, you find yourself riveted to your couch. Not wanting to miss even a minute, even though you already know.Even though this movie is over 2 decades old, and the computer equipment at the Wildfire laboratory shows its age, this is a perfect change-of-pace film for any movie monster fan. Instead of the usual radioactive mutated towering apparition that flattens cities and topples skyscrapers, the monster in "The Andromeda Strain" is so tiny, it takes powerful electron microscopes to see it. Though tiny in size, Andromeda has the potential to wreak more havoc than your typical Godzilla. The average movie monster can only cause damage wherever he can stomp, smash or exhale a blast of fiery breath. Andromeda has the potential to be carried to every corner of the world by the winds, where it could conceivably wipe out all life. Try to top THAT, Godzilla! Even worse, it seems to feed on nuclear radiation. The real star of the film is Wildfire itself. A government facility located safely away from populated areas, it bristles with everything a microbiologist needs to avert a biological disaster. . .or does it? Seeking an unprecedented realism, director Robert Wise insisted that everything on the set be real, from the computer terminals to the electron microscopes. The Wildfire set is every microbiologist's dream come true.
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Summary: Velvet star in a wheel of fortune
Review: 'The Andromeda Strain' is an extremely good post-'2001', pre-'Star Wars' 70's science fiction film. You know - it has edgy, electronic music, a measured pace, an ambiguous ending, split-screen effects and a healthy disrespect for authority. It predates the Jaws-era 'nature vs man' genre by a good few years, too. Also, uniquely for a Hollywood film, it features lots of anonymous actors who look like normal people, as well as, amazingly, a middle-aged woman. This lends the film a certain authenticity - our heroes appear to be regular scientists, and the environment they find themselves in, whilst dated, seems genuine. The film proceeds with both scientific accuracy and a lack of sensationalism, although there are a couple of striking sequences. The opening shots, in which pressure-suited scientists wander around a literal ghost town, is striking, and the finale, in which one of our heroes becomes a virus in the body of a giant computer, is striking, although very dated. This film features some archaic, charming computer graphics, too - as well as Douglas Trumball's patented '2001-style' animated CGI displays. And for DVD? A box. And a trailer. Hmm.
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Summary: The Book was Better
Review: If you liked this movie alot and it kept you on the edge of your seat, try reading the book. It is ten times better and ten times more exciting. The movie was still very exciting though.
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Summary: A Great Director
Review: When I see a Robert Wise film,I know that I am watching a film directed by a master craftsman.The Andromeda Strain is interesting throughout and is a welcome change from the action films with their constant fast-editing and constant violent scenes.It is nice to see a story nicely paced and unfolding the right way.Watching a Robert Wise film is like reading a good book.
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Summary: The Unltimate 70' Sci-Fi
Review: The movie "Andromeda Strain", was about an overly powered bacteria that was sent inside a probe in outer space and fell onto a small town within the United States. This bacteria that was no virus, killed every person within this town except the town drunk and the baby. A group of scientists that knew about this probe, were brought together to investigate upon this bacteria so they could kill andstop this bacteria from growing and taking over. The scientists go through a wild trip of confusing data and results to find the great everlasting cure, but thats for you to watch and find out for yourself. I personally felt that this movie was filled with a corney 70's twist of starwars due tohow they lived within a small/large official department for research underground and this brought me back memories. It was a very exclusive and interesting video, but i would only recommend it to those sci-fi lovers.
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Summary: Clearly Chemistry
Review: "The Andromeda Strain," by Michael Crichton, is straight from the 70's. The film technique, the language and the colors spell out 20th Century! But, no matter what the millennium, the message is clearly chemistry. In this story, an alien virus attacked a small California town. By attaching itself to a piece of equipment that scientists had used to probe outer space, it made its way to the US. Once it reached the US, it escaped into the air, where it attacked the respiratory system of everyone in the small town. Everyone died but two citizens, a drunkard and a crying baby. The scientist are now on a mission to find why these two escaped the virus. The message is clearly chemistry, to find out, watch the movie!
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Summary: Andromeda Strain's Dr. Stone
Review: The movie, Andromeda Strain was a very mysterious movie that kept you on the edge of your seat. The main character, Dr. Stone, was a great actor and was a very strong character in the movie. Without Dr. Stone everyone would have given up and let the world handle itself. Although, everyone worked together to find out what the bacteria was Dr. Stone put the whole mission together. He knew that the bacteria would appear one day and that he would have to take care of it. So when the time came he already had his plan together.
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Summary: Andromeda Strain Review
Review: My Chemistry class recently watched Andramada's Strain. Although it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, it was however, very interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was hard to follow but it kept me on the edge of my seat. I would definately recomed this movie to anyone who enjoys Science Fiction.
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Summary: "Oh no, I've been infected by aaaarrrrrrrrrggggggh!"
Review: I saw this movie when it first came out, I was about 10 or so then, and I was scared to death. I don't know why, but I'm still 10 and I think my lack of aging is because of this movie. Maybe it was the weird popcorn they served...or something in the soft drinks...anyway, except for all the stuff that's out of date...the cars, computers, telecommunications equipment, the way people talk to one another, the clothes, the colloquialisms, the visuals and the special effects...it looks like it was made yesterday. And the plot...how original! The government releases a secret virus into outer space to see if it can be mutated into something even more lethal than it is (as part of its ongoing bioweapons research) and it drops right into downtown Mayberry. Of course Goober finds it, brings it to the gay-rodge and opens it up with a tire iron. The nasty little bug proceeds to kill everyone in town, even the weird barber guy, well except for a baby who can't shut up and a drunk who can't wake up. A special team is scrambled and taken to a remote site that is supposedly a secret army potato processing facility, but is in reality an obvious army potato processing facility...made to look secret...where they also study biohazardous stuff in the basement. After they'd pried the space petri-dish out of Goober's disintegrating hands, they study it at the Secret Army Spud Center and find it likes to eat everything and kill everything it eats. It eats through some rubber seals and gets away but is killed by salt water when it rains. Some Bioweapon that turned out to be. Sheesh.
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Summary: Massively underrated
Review: I originally saw this on television a while back, and was riveted to the screen like few other times I can remember. This is a film that doesn't worry about excess dialogue, flashy effects, top-notch acting, or hip coolness. It's all about atmosphere. And to those who say it's too long, I say "all the longer to keep you wondering what will happen next." It's a great movie to think along with, and explore possibilities as the characters do. It's a very stark film, in that, as I said previously, most peripheral matters aren't dealt with. It's just totally focused on what happened, how it happened, and how to deal with what happened. Some adaptations of books attempt to cram in too much dialog and scenery in order to make up for the lost written detail, but this one is just like viewing a window on the world. What you get out of it is all up to you. I still can't believe how gripping and suspenseful this film is.
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