Virus
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Movie Reviews of Virus
Movie Review: Another derivitive Aliens rip off
Summary: 2 Stars
The Dark Horse comic that Virus is based from wasn't that good to begin with; and this film adaptation plays out more like a rip off of an Aliens and Termiantor hybrid (then again, this was produced by Gale Anne Hurd; who produced both those films as well). Character development is thrown straight on out the window while the talents of Jamie Lee Curtis and William Baldwin are beyond wasted. However, Virus does have it's good points: Donald Sutherland hams it up so much you can't help but chuckle, plus the special effects are nicely put together and the gore effects are great as well. It seems ever since Aliens was such a hit way back when, a host of other very similar films have tried to copy that film's style and have fallen flat on their face. While Virus does have it's good qualities, for the most part the film is a waste of what might have been if it would have had actual thought put into the story and been handled by a more capable director. It is worth a viewing or two, but don't expect anything special out of it.Movie Review: The splendiferous and delightful Jamie Lee Curtis serves ..
Summary: 5 Stars
... Efficiently this splendid S.F. movie with the very good complicity of the other actor who's Donald SUTHERLAND and the accosted subject can do put across that an alien meeting can be stupendous, amazing because it's possible to foresse which we could be very in inferiority with an entity who his borned many time before the humanity, the mankind ! So, and howether without Jamie Lee Curtis this film could not be good, her feminity, his womanhood connected with many smartness and tempererament are solids advantages, the action is omnipresent in this story ! I've liked this pretty composition with many surprises sometimes horribles ! These are my typicals PREFERENTIALS ! THANKS JAMIE !Movie Review: If you liked Aliens, you'll like this.
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this movie very much! It's like "Aliens" vs "Terminator". Lots of action. A spaceship enters the earth's atmposphere and takes over the Mier space station which allows it to zoom down to a distroyer ship where it takes over all the electronic capabilities making half man/half machine robots that intend to take over the earth once they get rid of the "virus" known as man, eliminating all on board except one. Then, the Sea Star traveling out on the ocean, catch a glimpse of this vessel on radar and investigate hoping to salvage it for lots of $$$. Out of 7 crewmen (including Jamie Leigh Curtis) only 2 survive. Which ones? You'll have to watch it to find out!Movie Review: "Shocked" by the negative reviews...
Summary: 3 Stars
* I cannot really ''praise,'' per se, the originality or story of the film ''Virus,'' because, in all honesty, it's not what anyone can rightly call a great film. Sure, it's visually stunning and fun and enjoyable and all that... but it's certainly not ''Terminator'' or ''Aliens.''
Even so, I'm somewhat puzzled that so many reviewers are having a difficult time ''relating'' to this movie, based upon how it plays itself out. I think they are missing one key element in the whole thing, however:
Just as ADULT reviewers have to be reminded that ''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'' was a movie made for the tiny tot audience, reviewers of the movie ''Virus'' need to keep in mind that this film was based on a ''comic book'' story (...or as ''fanboys''-- current and former --would call it, a ''graphic novel'')!
Anyone who pays any amount of attention would realize that there is NEVER (or rarely ever) going to be a ''totally straight'' presentation of a comic book story translated to the big screen -- even if the story itself is treated ''seriously'' within the pages of the comic. (''The Crow'' was one of those rarest of exceptions.)
Keeping that in mind may actually make viewing this movie about an alien energy lifeform that....??? uses human bodies for ''spare parts'' ???...., and tries to kill them off more effectively by constructing cybernetic monstrosities???.... okay, so it's a little ludicrous, but again, I don't think it was meant to be taken completely seriously -- it's mindless escapism that's both fun and scary. That's Entertainment!
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Movie Review: Entertaining alternative
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay, so you have seen "The Abyss" about eight times, "Jaws" four times, "The Perfect Storm" once, and "The Terminator" a few times. Now, what do you watch? Yes, the theme that "humans are a virus to the planet earth and have to be eliminated" is not very original or surprising. Although, the irony that it is a virus that has made this observation is. "Virus" is an entertaining reprieve from your usuals. If you can put your "movie critic" nature aside, you will enjoy this movie.