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Virus (1999)
Director: John Bruno <
>Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Wiliam Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell, Sherman Augustus, Cliff Curtis, Julio Oscar Mechoso. <
>Running Time: 99 minutes <
>Rated R for sci-fi violence/gore, and for language. <
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>On the American tugboat, the Sea Star, Kit Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis), Steve Baker (William Baldwin), and Captain Robert Everton (Donald Sutherland), along with several other crew members are lost at sea. While trying to sail through against raging storms and aggressive tidal waves, the crew has unfortunately lost the required cargo. They are lost for hope until the crew members of the Sea Star spot the Academic Vladislav Volkov, a vessel lying alone in the seam floating still in apparent tranquility, floating in the middle of the ocean with no signs of survivors aboard. Despite the permeating silence throughout the vessel, the Sea Star crew refuses to give up. They climb aboard the vessel hoping to find any insinuating signs of life. These people learn only too soon that they are not alone on this Volkov ship, for an unknown alien presence has traveled in the shape of an amorphous cosmic beam into a Russian Space Station. Unbeknownst to the Sea Star crew, the alien has taken over the entire ship and now it is hiding somewhere in this very vessel and spreading throughout the ship. The Sea Star crew must fight against this violent new species and their struggle becomes the ultimate battle between the human race and the alien virus. <
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>Although it has some hokey moments, this big-budget sci-fi action thriller had a lot going for it; the where-is-everybody setting and premise is engrossing, the cast give their characters more credibility than the script sometimes deserves, the robotic special effects by Chuck Gaspar are eye-popping and David Eggby's dark photography slams along fast enough to leave you gasping. Chuck Pfarrer's script (based on his comic-book) has a good central idea - an electrical life-form comes into contact with a space-station, which unwittingly transmits it into the computer of the ship, from where it starts to use the people and equipment on board to build itself a physical existence. Where the script starts to break down for me is when the characters start losing it and acting like clowns, and the sheer vagueness of the alien's power (it can weld doors shut remotely on the ship, but wastes all its time building big-ass robots to chase the heroes down narrow gangways). The likable cast gamely throw themselves around the nightmarish sets, but "Virus" is not exciting, intelligent, or scary enough to sustain the audience's attention. Sutherland is ridiculously outlandish and Jamie Lee Curtis admittingly regrets her role and performance in the film. A little derivative of producer Gale Ann Hurd and effects man Bruno's earlier movies (notably "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "The Abyss"); "Virus" is a "shoulda-coulda been" mistake that didn't live up to its billing.

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Though not a masterpiece, a movie worth watching!
Virus, brings to the screen the story of a crew whose ship is badly damaged when struck by a typhoon in the Pacific, as it stumbles across a seemingly abandoned Russian ship. Things get a bit more complicated when they are introduced to the ship's new occupants... <
>Virus does have significant similarities with the movie Ghost Ship, only instead of an Italian cruise ship it is a Russian science/research vessel and instead of ghosts it's a hostile alien life force. <
>Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, and the rest of the cast carry out their performances very well. <
>The only major setback is in relation to some unnecessary and unintelligent dialogue in referring to the Russian alphabet as "Cyrillic crap" and "chicken scratch." Coming from some ignorant writer to refer to Cyrillic letters in such a way (which are based on the Greek alphabet) is just sad, especially when one considers the fact that they have been in use for more than a thousand years (Russian) and more than three and half thousand years respectively (Greek). The blame lies on the writer/s, but also on those who supposedly proofread the lines. <
>Nevertheless, the plot, the setting, the special effects, and the music are all good! <
>The film, which has strong elements of both sci-fi and horror, combines drama, action, and adventure making it rather enjoyable, as long as you're in that kind of a mood. <
>In short, it's a movie definitely worth watching, as it will provide for an evening's entertainment. 4 Stars <
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MAYBE NOT THE GREATEST - BUT WELL WORTH WATCHING
Well a movie to me is entertainment - and this movie does fall in that catagory. I like Sci-Fi and Baldwin was added to the picture. <
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>This is the third time I have watched it and have still enjoyed it - Just think there is always someone smarter than you out there. Weird life form. <
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>Generally liked the characters - especially our bomb expert. <
>I have no problem following the theory that there has to be a total anihilation of this life form. The struggle to do so is still a tribute to man's triumph over his fears of the unknown. <
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>Then we have man's ingenuity against machine's capabilities. And a definite scenerio of how man's greed is his own destruction. Oh yes, a tribute to man's compassion and partnership where it counts. <
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>Acting?, well that is in the eye of the beholder. Yup! I will probably break down and watch it again sometime. <
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>Have fun reading the reviews - it is a treat to see what others think. Judge for yourself. <
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>Not bad - Recommended