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Virus
1999
A Russian science ship in the South Pacific is attempting to line up its satellite dish with a Russian space station. An alien energy mass envelops the space station and invades the ship's navigational equipment by way of data transmission.... Some days later the Sea Star tug decides to claim salvage on the Russian vessel which .. Read more
| Starring | Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula |
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| Director | John Bruno |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Virus
A Russian science ship in the South Pacific is attempting to line up its satellite dish with a Russian space station. An alien energy mass envelops the space station and invades the ship's navigational equipment by way of data transmission.... Some days later the Sea Star tug decides to claim salvage on the Russian vessel which appears deserted except for one remaining crew member....
| Starring | Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell |
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| Director | John Bruno |
| Studio | STARZ |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | None |
| Released | DVD: 06 Apr 2009 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Oscar-winning visual-effects artist and James Cameron protégé John Bruno emphasises effects over plot in his dreary directorial debut and adds insult to injury by making those effects merely tarnished knock-offs of The Terminator, The Abyss and Aliens. A sinking tugboat crew takes refuge on a deserted Russian science vessel during a typhoon only to find it harbouring an alien energy force. Derivative of everything from Leviathan to Deep Rising, Bruno's hybrid mass of genre clichés simply joins the dots and doesn't even entertain on a schlock level. Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland give career-worst performances in this lame-brained terror tripe, with the final robot monster looking more like a mobile junkyard than anything truly scary.
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Based on the Dark Horse comics series, this plays like a jerky computer game infected with the Alien clone virus. A... read more on Time Out
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Most helpful member's review
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Better Than Expected
It was a real suprise to find several well known actors, the film was not quite as expected. It looked like real B movie stuff, but actually not a bad effort, if you can get past a few silly robots they have actually made a good effort with the special effects. For a sci-fi buff you can see that ideas have been taken from many movies such as the borg idea of assimilation & the terminator idea of machines seeing us as the virus. Don't stay in especially to watch it but worth a look.
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Most recent members' review
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
The comic was better
What I could not quite understand is why they changed the initial premise of picking up a signal from space that once fed into a computer, took it over, hence ?Virus?.
Sorry folks but I?m one of the few saddo?s who?s read the original comic that this is based on and I thought that made a hell of a lot more sense then picking up some form of ?Energy being? which was a hokey idea even in Kirks heyday.
I know, I know it?s a B picture, but the idea that ?we? are the virus is lame in comparison, not to mention the ending of the comic was better too.
Still, switch on, leave brain in the breadbin, and enjoy the action, which isn?t as bad as you?d imagine.
Rent this and Deep Rising, get a couple of mates around, break open the Fanta, and cancel the cruise holiday.
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Virus
A Russian science ship in the South Pacific is attempting to line up its satellite dish with a Russian space station. An alien energy mass envelops the space station and invades the ship's navigational equipment by way of data transmission.... Some days later the Sea Star tug decides to claim ...
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