The Andromeda Strain
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Actor: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula KellyBrand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 131 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-01
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Universal Studios
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Anamorphic; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of The Andromeda Strain
Movie Review: A STRAIN TO DIE FOR
Summary: 5 Stars
A STRAIN TO DIE FOR
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
In this movie a project called SCOOP is sending out probes to find space germs. The probe lands in a small town in Arizona called Piedmont. When all but two inhabitants of piedmont are found dead, a team is sent to investigate. They find corpses lining the street and when they slit a man's wrist for a blood test all they find is a red sandy powder. Once the space probe and the two survivors (Mr. Jackson and the baby) are brought back to the wildfire facility (a government funded facility that is made to examine foreign bacterial crisis) the testing begins. After going through several sever decontamination procedures the scientists are astonished at what they find: an organism that wastes nothing and eats just about everything. It is one that coagulates a whole organism's blood stream in under sic seconds. However, the wildfire lab is armed with an atomic bomb for self-destruct in case of disease spread. This bomb gets accidentally turned on and the run is on up the central core to stop the device that could from beginning a possible disease that could wipe out the planet.
One difference between the book and the movie was the conversation in the car between the two doctors on the way into the facility in the movie. In the book it merely describes the road. Another difference between the book and the movie was when they showed the map of the facility in the beginning and when they asked if the survivors were still alive. Also, in the book it took a lot longer to desterilize the scientists; in the movie it seems a lot shorter. One of the biggest things that I noticed was that he turned off the bomb in the end with eight seconds left. In the book it was closer to thirty.
One similarity between the book and the movie was that nearly all of the dialogue is identical. Another similarity is that the female doctor passes out when she sees the red lights flashing. What I think is the most crucial similarity is that eh old man had to escape through the central core. My favorite similarity is how while climbing up the central core to deactivate the bomb he gets hit by a barrage of lasers!
I liked this movie because it reminded me a lot of the book and for the time period it was made in the special effects were fantastic and the acting superb.
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