MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

evening1 There is an excellent idea here, and wonderful actors to play it out, but the storyline is too complicated for this film's good. The bizarre subplot involving a nefarious military doctor trying to cover up crimes of 30 years earlier, aiming to sacrifice thousands of lives to save his own reputation and neck -- well, it seems to me it just wasn't necessary. The more simple story line of an Ebola-type illness traveling from an obscure African war zone to a cozy California community -- that's more than enough to intrigue a movie audience!This film does a good job of showing how a virus could conceivably make its way to the American homeland through the actions of a few people making a few short-sighted, self-serving decisions. The movie is at its scary best when it shows the terrible implications of such seemingly benign acts as taking a cute animal out of its natural environment and kissing at the airport.Dustin Hoffman carries this film despite its many flaws. Observing how he single handedly tracks down the original host of the deadly microbe -- risking his job, saving the life of his ex-wife, and winning her back to his affections along the way -- is part of the fun and turns him into an everyman's super-hero. I'm glad I saw "Outbreak." It's interesting consider its similarities with the similarly themed "Contagion." Each succeeds in scaring you, getting you to care about the principals, and teaching you something about infectious disease. But neither is a movie for the ages.

adonis98-743-186503 Extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. But how extreme, exactly? Outbreak is one of those underrated 90's films that people have totally forgotten and it's unfortunately true because this movie is pretty damn awesome. Every scene where the main characters go into a room and try to help a infected person or get infected themselves is full of great suspense and each actors sold it perfectly. Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and Cuba Gooding Jr. are all really great in this film and for once again Donald Sutherland completely sells it as the "villain" i mean the man is a genius he is so great that he actually makes you hate him to death. The score of the film is also pretty good and sells on both the tension and suspense of the film. The direction of Wolfgang Petersen is really good and with some pretty good shots overall. The characters are likable and interesting enough and the film every time that hits on action is pretty damn good. Overall Outbreak (1995) gets a total of 5/5 stars!!

juneebuggy I'm a big fan of disaster movies, this one is a classic mostly due to the outstanding cast attached (Donald Sutherland, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Rene Russo, Cuba Gooding Jr.) and an (almost) realistic story.It's a decent movie for the most part although does get a bit hokey and over the top where the government conspiracy angle is concerned. I enjoyed the virus story a lot: how it spreads, finding the host, tracing the origin. The movie theatre scene with the man coughing is scary, as we watch the little microbes float through the air infecting the entire audience. I've thought about that scene many times over the years. Patrick Dempsy was a surprise here, playing Jimbo the young grunge dude who steals the monkey.The cast is fantastic with Hoffman as the lead expert on contagious diseases trying to stamp out a killer virus in a small California town. Russo plays his soon to be ex-wife and Spacey and Gooding both work under him. Hoffman does pretty well as the action hero, his scenes with Cuba and are good as they steal a helicopter and they're on the run, good chemistry. Morgan Freeman is a General caught in the middle, trying to cover up the fact that he and Donald Sutherland bombed the hell out of an African village in the 60's to halt the same disease.Sutherland's character becomes too much, almost comical towards the end in his sublime efforts to stop Hoffman from finding out the truth and to complete his (personal) mission of eradicating the infected town. This was too much. Still a good movie, scary and for the most part well done.8/23/15

quetzalli13 What started out as an apparently well-researched thriller became, through the power of over-the-top acting, action movie gimmicks, some pretty gruesome makeup, plot holes, and very confusing and alarmingly inaccurate ideas about viruses -although maybe the '90s are to blame for that -such a silly movie. So silly.Even so, I watched this 2-hour-plus movie until the end, and I see how it could have become a masterpiece through the right script edits. But alas.It's still a thousand times better than Contagion, though. A million times, possibly.