Virus

    Virus
    1999

    Synopsis

    When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

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    Cast

    • Jamie Lee CurtisKelly Foster
    • William BaldwinSteve Baker
    • Donald SutherlandCaptain Robert Everton
    • Joanna PaculaNadia Vinogradova
    • Marshall BellJ.W. Woods Jr.
    • Sherman AugustusRichie
    • Cliff CurtisHiko
    • Julio Oscar MechosoSqueaky
    • Levan UchaneishviliCaptain Alexi
    • Yuri ChervotkinColonel Kominski

    Recommendations

    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      An unpretentious, amusing thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror thriller / monster movie that plugs right into fears of a Y2K crisis.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      The script, based on a Dark Horse comic-book series, is hugely predictable, but the robot effects by veteran Phil Tippett are nastily entertaining.
    • 30

      L.A. Weekly

      FX whiz John Bruno (Terminator 2, True Lies) makes a dubious directorial debut here, juggling monsters that are icky but not scary; an out-of-control Donald Sutherland as the tug’s Ahabesque captain.
    • 30

      Film Threat

      The plot itself is a disappointingly gory concatenation of two recently forgettable sci-fi thrillers; "Hardware" and "Event Horizon."
    • 30

      The New York Times

      As long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content.
    • 25

      ReelViews

      95 minutes of unrelieved tedium.
    • 25

      USA Today

      The movie was postponed from 1998 and shielded from critics. (They were ot allowed to see the movie before the opening, usually a bid sign.) [15 January 1999, Life, p.8E]
    • 25

      Chicago Sun-Times

      "Deep Rising" was one of the worst movies of 1998. Virus is easily worse.

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