Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Phantasy_star_4 No wonder Jamie lee Curtis stated that this movie was the worst in her entire career. Its alright all in all but the focus of the movie is on a Russian science ship that is found by Donald Sutherlands crew. The Ship is alive and thinks the Crew is a virus. OK no problem right? seems not to bad. Until you start to watch it, the characters seem rather odd and somewhat hard to take seriously, Donald Sutherland sounds strange at times as if hes trying to do an accent every so often but never pans out what kind of accent he was trying to achieve. Every character is very bland and you find it hard to focus on the happenings around them, cliché lines and cheesy robotic bad guys. Humans turned into robots just seem strange rather than scary, they are supposed to be threatening i guess to the crew but they always manage to get their butts kicked quickly, so much for the robot humans. Sometimes there is moments that don't make sense. At the start of the film when first finding the science ship they make note there is no weapons on board. But throughout the movie we find machine guns, a Missile room?, and various other weapons throughout the ship. The movie is a B rated movie at best but to be fair to B rated movies this is actually not even that good. Id pass up this movie if I were you but its your choice if you really like bad flicks.

mysteryclarke This review contains spoilers - but it's like a turd gets spoiled by running over it on a skateboard. No great tragedy.Adequate budget, admirable cast, appalling script. Such a wasted opportunity - none of the characters have any consistency, their relationships are never explained or explored and every opportunity for a cheap shock is shamelessly exploited with very minimal effect. At no point did I feel empathy for any of the characters and instead I was vaguely amused each time one of them dies. The cinematography is adequate and the performances of the cast are about as good as they could have been so I have given it 3/10 but by half-way through I was really just hoping it would end soon so I could do anything else instead.Why a research vessel is carrying surface to air missiles or has armouries bristling with bazookas and machine guns is never explained, nor is why the Russians are using a boat rather than a fixed-position land based facility to communicate with the MIR space station. A boat, I might add, that would have to be nearer America than Europe for the crews initial tug boat to have reached it. Why the sensible and sensitive daughter of an American Navy Admiral (as Jamie Lee Curtis' character claims to be) is involved with the unlikely crew combination on board the initial tug boat is also never explained, nor is why she has Thermionic grenades in her rucksack. Towards the end the tug boat crew suddenly seem very aware of the research vessels layout, facilities and capabilities and the final escape of two of the characters on a single-seater rocket powered ejector seat that has no flotation or survival equipment (one ejector seat for a crew of over 300?!) is the final laughable straw. Overall the film is pants. Poorly stitched pants, with a little skid-mark in them.

Sean Crawford I'll admit, I was very skeptical when I started this movie and then realized how poorly overall it had done. I was surprised to find that it really wasn't that bad. It definitely wasn't the worst movie I had ever seen, not even close. The movie was genuinely creepy. The only thing that prevented my complete satisfaction was how stupid the premise was. But once you got past that, it was kind of enjoyable. The animation was actually good, and it wasn't clear to me if any one of the crew members would get off the ship. Normally it's easy to see the 'hero of the movie', that appears to be unstoppable in their success. No such limitations in this movie.Overall, an enjoyable movie that should have done much better than it did.

breakdownthatfilm-blogspot-com Although many agree that films that use or recycle elements from successful previous franchises, end up not being entertaining or appealing, there are always a few that go against the grain. An example of those kinds of movies is like Leviathan (1989) and Screamers (1995). Well, Virus (1999) is not much different from those.The movie is based off of a series Dark Horse comics written by Chuck Pfarrer in the early 90s. The story is about how the crew of a tugboat stumble upon an abandoned ship. Inside, they discover that an electrical alien lifeform has taken control of the ship and has been using parts of the ship and its crewmembers to create robotic creatures to do its dirty work. Now its up to the crew to figure out how to rid the ship of this "virus" before it docks on dry land and takes control of other computers. So it's like Alien (1979) mixed with The Terminator (1984), OK so? It is not like Universal Studios was trying to out match these films, each film must be treated for what its worth and not as who's better than the original. William Baldwin, horror heroine Jaime Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland and Joanna Pacula are just of the few actors that star in this film. I'd say that not many of these characters were memorable, but they do share good sarcastic lines, quirky reaction faces and fierce retaliations. I did laugh a lot at the character of Capt. Robert Everton played by Sutherland. Even though it probably wasn't intended to be funny, Sutherland is able to make his character come out with deadpan lines and a sadistic sense of humor. My question is, how did any of these characters come together as one group in the script? Screenwriter Pfarrer wrote the dialog like they hated each other from the start. What kind of crew is that? I'm surprised anything was accomplished with how much bickering took place. However, this didn't happen all to often because soon they had to work together. Surprisingly, this is one of the things I didn't realize. It took about until half way before the pace started to increase and that may make viewers restless. The gunfire and blood is there. The actual gore may be a bit low for gorehounds but it is still enjoyable. Not to mention there are also some "boo" moments too and that may catch audiences off guard even if most people won't find it frightening. Adding to the creepiness of the setting's atmosphere is composer Joel McNeely's orchestral score. It may not be extraordinarily inventive, but simplistically, it gets its point across in making the scenes work with the music to enhance the viewing experience. Finally, I have to give the most credit to director John Bruno. To say the film didn't work because a visual effects supervisor was given a chance to direct doesn't mean squat. Bruno is a talented man and his ability to make Chuck Pfarrer's vision come to fruition was done professionally. One of the scenes I found the most astounding was the sweatshop room where two of the crew members run into an area where numerous amounts of robots are being made by robotic arms. It was done surprisingly well, almost too well because of how realistic it was. Bruno should be given more credit for this reason alone.Like many other movies, Chuck Pfarrer's Dark Horse comic adaptation reuses elements from other movies. And although its story is not creative, it is still fun, especially for its special effects, cast members and musical score.