The conventions of the genre are well-established, and Virus uninspiredly copies them all.
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01/01/00
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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
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Reviews for Virus
It's dead in the water.
01/01/00
Even Donald Sutherland in the potentially juicy role of a self-serving old sea dog goes down with the ship in this suspenseless big-budget 'thriller.'
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
Until the diverting special effects take center stage, this story, about an alien intelligence that builds an army out of flesh and metal, pathetically exploits genre conventions without generating self-reference, camp, or thrills.
04/25/07
Top CriticThe last shot is an homage to The African Queen, a movie I earnestly recommend instead of this one.
01/01/00
Top CriticA disgusting, ugly, and downright depressing excuse for a thriller, and that's what makes it good.
01/01/00
You always have to be careful with the initial releases of any calendar year.
01/01/00
For a movie about aliens determined to kill us all, this is pretty reassuring stuff.
01/01/00
Not pretty. And not scary, either.
01/01/00
The monsters themselves are quite a bit less than frightening, most of them being little mechanical gadgets with spidery legs and not much resistance to machine-gun fire.
01/01/00
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10/30/06
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
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01/01/00
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
It's rare to find a movie that makes this little sense.
01/01/00
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
This is a film desperately in need of winks to the audience.
01/01/00
Even Donald Sutherland in the potentially juicy role as a self-serving old sea dog, is wasted in this big budget ill.
12/08/02
How many cliches can one film incorporate or steal from other movies?
01/01/00
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