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Virus (1998)

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Reviews Counted:16

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Rotten:16

Average Rating:0.7/10

Consensus: Despite its great special effects, this movie's predictability greatly undermines its intensity.

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Passengers of a tugboat take refuge in a supposedly abandoned Russian research vessel to wait out a storm in the middle of the Atlantic. Little do they know that the crew has been killed by an... Passengers of a tugboat take refuge in a supposedly abandoned Russian research vessel to wait out a storm in the middle of the Atlantic. Little do they know that the crew has been killed by an alien life form which looks at humans as a virus to be eliminated. The elimination is done by combining parts of human bodies with machinery to create deadly life-exterminating creatures. From the producer of ALIENS and based on a series from Dark Horse Comics. [More]

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Joanna Pacula

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell

Director: John Bruno

Director: John Bruno
Screenwriter: Chuck Pfarrer
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd

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