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Movie Reviews of Virus
Movie Review: Human sacrifice versus cosmic invasion
Summary: 4 Stars
Post Cold War science fiction. No more Soviets. The Russians are not dangerous and the Chinese are not yet in the picture, not to speak of the terrorists. So danger had to come from the sky, hence from the cosmos, hence some immaterial living form, at least immaterial according to our definition of matter. They just take over any kind of communications network and have at their disposal the whole sum of human knowledge, plus theirs, and they start spreading. They take over a Russian scientific boat and then recuperate anything, computer parts, mechanical parts and human parts, to build some hybrid beings that can take the control of the ship and then go to some human harbor and invade the planet. But it all goes wrong when some real human beings decide to use their intelligence and training to destroy these hybrid beings, the extraterrestrial cosmic being behind and sink the boat. And we are really after the end of the Cold War since it is the last female Russian survivor who will sacrifice herself to slow down the main "machine" so that the two last Americans will be able to escape while her sacrifice will start the setting on fire of the ship and the blowing of it up and down into the sea. A little bit simple, though quite entertaining if you like that kind of paranoid science fiction: the human species is always menaced, from inside or from outside, and it is always thanks to the sacrifice of some who use their intelligence and know how in a creative way that the planet and humanity are saved. Paranoid and na?ve. And the final couple that escape the ship is of course a man and a woman. Adam and Eve not dead yet.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Movie Review: The Virus Is ... , (1998 Movie)
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is not that good, but if you're a fan of sci-fi then you will eventually have to see it like I did. Although I like the genre, fair is fair, and many other movies are better. The less you get your hopes up, the greater your chance to enjoy the movie. My fiancee, who never saw a sci-fi movie before asked me to turn this off after five minutes. We did go on to watch Aliens vs. Predator (AVP), which she loved, to give a comparison. However this, with all that being said, doesn't mean the movie won't be fun to watch.
As a trivia note, I inadvertently watched this movie back to back with AVP, and the similarities in the beginning at least were extraordinary. I presume this is due to both John Bruno on the set of both, and that both storylines were based on Dark Horse comic books.
This is a fun popcorn movie. The effects are gory on occasion and schlockey. There are the occasional presence of von Neumann machines, but are not as nearly threatening as the Replicators in the Stargate series. The movie title `Virus' works on a few levels.
Movie Review: Terminator on the sea
Summary: 5 Stars
This late nineties sci-fi movie was on of my favorite sci-fi movie released in 1999 in the closing year of the 20th century. This year was the eight anniversary of the movie since it was first release. Due to high terminator 2 like violence, occasional explosions and other thematic elements gory and disturbing images, and occasionally cursing and scary situation this movie might not be appropriate or maybe questionable for kids under the age of 17 depending on what there parent's or guardians consider appropriate for there ages. In the movie a Russian space ships is attacked by an alien life form that kills everybody on the space ship then transports it's self on the ship below monitor the space ship above where every body that does not abandon the ship except for one Russian women . A week later a crew from a sinking vessel comes aboard the ship. They find a Russian women on board scared to death she tells them about a creature that occupies the ship and keeping the ships powered turned off is the only way other than destroying it to keep the alien robotic life form subdued and under control. They find out two late the truth and epic struggle of enormous portion has began. Can they defeat this high tech terror from space and his smaller robot minions find out in the dramatic thrilling conclusion. Movie Review: a scary combination movie with a soundtrack to match
Summary: 5 Stars
this dvd movie is a rare one, in that it combines the scare elements from
other dvd movies into the one, it contains elements of "robocop"
"colossus the forbin project" "the borg from startrek" and vampire movies,
all put together very well, and a cast led by jamie lee curtis, all
contribute, a very well done thriller, the DTS5.1 version is the high bit
one,
Movie Review: What's with all the negative reviews?
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent movie and I'm shocked at all the bad reviews. Most people compare it to Terminator. It's noyhing like Terminator! The only simalar factor is that the computers build the machines! The best thing about this movie is the alien(s?)does not take any form. It doesn't blast people with lasers or anything like that.I think this is really creative.