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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 | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: 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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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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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
good viewing
I was a little sceptical of this at first as I`m not a 'curtis' fan but I`ve been won over with this movie..a very good original storyline and after the first 20 minutes to get going all the way action..recommended..
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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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