While he can fling together a competent action or special effects sequence, his handling of the plot and actors is strictly routine.
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06/24/06
Virus (1998)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:4
Rotten:37
Average Rating:3.1/10
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... [More]
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Joanna Pacula
Director: John Bruno
Reviews for Virus
Top CriticBesides the bloodthirsty E.T., tugboat navigator Curtis must deal with something even worse: lousy acting from her fellow cast members.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe dialogue tends toward the obvious, and the characters are constantly explaining what is happening to one another.
01/01/00
The conventions of the genre are well-established, and Virus uninspiredly copies them all.
01/01/00
How many cliches can one film incorporate or steal from other movies?
01/01/00
A disgusting, ugly, and downright depressing excuse for a thriller, and that's what makes it good.
01/01/00
This is a film desperately in need of winks to the audience.
01/01/00
When the automated robotic lab starts using dead bodies as biological material to create killing machines programmed to believe man is harmful and must be destroyed.
06/05/02
No one in the right mind would call this a good film, or even a decent one, but thankfully, rookie feature director John Bruno's romp is not a complete waste of celluloid.
05/22/03
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10/30/06
95 minutes of unrelieved tedium.
01/01/00
bathed in an incessant gloom that makes it look like one of the comic book artists who inspired this sci-fi/horror hybrid spilled his ink blotter on the film's negatives
02/27/01
Why tell a tale -- especially so unimaginatively -- which has been told so many times?
01/01/00
Monster movie is a monstrous failure.
11/07/02
a respectable little thriller that packs a couple of genuine jolts and gallon upon gallon of gore into a goofy, sometimes suspenseful yarn.
07/03/03
This disgustingly gory science-fiction/horror film also bears a striking resemblance to last year's equally graphic Deep Rising and nearly surpasses that film with its sheer stupidity.
01/01/00
This is not a great movie. It's not even a good movie.
01/01/00
A derivative sci-fi shocker that isn't likely to spark much interest beyond its target audience of undemanding genre fans.
04/25/07
Top CriticAn unpretentious, amusing thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror thriller / monster movie that plugs right into fears of a Y2K crisis.
02/14/01
Top CriticAs long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content.
01/01/00
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