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.
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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
This is not a great movie. It's not even a good movie.
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As long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content.
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The effects in Virus are not exactly whizz-bang, but the pace is good and the tension is on-going.
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You always have to be careful with the initial releases of any calendar year.
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Hugely predictable!
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It's dead in the water.
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A poorly conceived thriller that sidesteps everything that really would be interesting about an Ebola outbreak in favor of an overused plot.
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It's so unmemorable that I couldn't recall what movie I had seen while the credits were rolling.
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For a movie about aliens determined to kill us all, this is pretty reassuring stuff.
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There isn't much about Virus that you won't know by guessing.
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Top CriticCurtis's earnest performance would be better suited for a more intelligent, exciting script, one where "What the hell was that?' and 'What the hell is going on?' don't make up 95% of the dialogue.
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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.
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Completely predictable and largely fright-free!
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Top CriticThe last shot is an homage to The African Queen, a movie I earnestly recommend instead of this one.
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Top CriticIt's rare to find a movie that makes this little sense.
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Nothing -- I mean nothing -- works in this film.
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Not pretty. And not scary, either.
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I'd even be tempted to call it old-fashioned, except for the existence of far more sophisticated films from the fifties.
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