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A fresh breeze compared to other movies of it's genre

This move was a lot better then I anticipated. I was thinking this was
going to be yet another sci-fi horror shock movie about people getting
killed by either monsters or aliens.I was wrong in the sense that it was going to be 'yet another' movie.The story is about a satellite ship (can't find the correct term for
such a ship at the moment) which is in contact with a space station
above the earth. Suddenly, a strange cloud of electric energy passes
through the station and beams itself down onto the ship and into the
main computer. That's what the intro of the movie is about.You then meet the characters of the story: the crew of a small ship,
called the Sea star with on board a precious cargo. They are on their
way to port when they sail right into a typhoon. Lost cargo and a
depressed captain are the results. What's even worse is that their ship
has taken damage and will sink in a few hours. Then they spot the
satellite ship we saw in the intro.They take their chances and board the ship, searching for a way to
contact for help.Then the movie really starts…There are a lot of elements in this movie, including greed, hatred,
treachery and fear. Cleverly weaved into a web that is this movie.The acting is quite nice. Especially Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald
Sutherland deliver a solid performance. There's also a lot of good
chemistry between the characters of the crew, allowing some small jokes
and dialog.However, the main element in this movie has to be the 'something' that
got beamed down to the ship. I have to say that the effects in this
film are very effective. A nifty combination of CGI, mechanical effects
and acting. I haven't seen anything like that in a movie yet and I
found it very interesting.The plot of the story, as a whole, is also… refreshing, in lack of a
better word. Humans as a virus, and must be exterminated. If you think
about it, you can understand that point of view. It doesn't mean that
you should cheer for the life form that is hunting our poor crew
members though…There's gore in this movie. Not an awful lot every 10 seconds, but you
will get your fair share in body parts and blood throughout the film.
Good shock moments too, and some are unpredictable. I jumped up on my
chair a few times.In overall, I have to say that Virus is a good, entertaining movie with
some elements and effects I haven't seen much in a Sci-fi movie. I can recommend this film to any fan of either science-fiction or
thriller/horror movies. I give this a 8 out of 10 stars.

tom_koopa from Netherlands - 12 May 2009

mess

First the characters. They are horrid collection of vile, humorless,
cowardly schmucks, here for – I don't even remember what got them on
board the boat, it made so little sense and mattered not at all.The Donald Sutherland character especially – embarrassing. Clearly
intended as some sort of political joke, but two decades out of date,
and annoying even back then.The acting – ham on toast. The dialog: worst I've heard in any horror
film since Ed Wood's "Plan 9." The monster: nothing new, a confusing
mish-mash of disconnected 'scary' ideas.The plot – one-by-one they go down – as usually happens in such
pictures.The sense of tension, the shocks, the thrills – never happen.The virus – worse than a flu, will have you puking and you can't stop.Best defense – avoid this movie like the plague!

johnno-17 from Greece - 3 February 2009

Assembly line thriller

Taken in the right vein, this movie can entertain. Donald Sutherland
and Jaime Lee Curtis pretty much had nothing to do one afternoon, so
they set sail on a tugboat with one of the many Baldwin brothers. Also
on board are a group of unknown actors playing doomed "red-shirt"
sailors who play dummies that have some dumb comic relief lines and
then eventually get croaked.Finding the Mary Celeste-type Russian science vessel was pretty cool,
and actually done well. Some of the ghost-like events while the crew
tries to salvage the vessel (for millions of dollars, they estimate),
not done too bad but much of the material is recognizable from similar
ghost ship movies. Most of the acting is up to par, but Sutherland's
agent needs to get him a role where he doesn't play a demented nut for
once. Here he's a captain trying to make evil deals with the menace,
once it's been uncovered what it is.The monster itself is a comedy of contradictions that are really a
series of thriller flick clichés woven together loosely and sloppily.
There is no consistency in the thing's actions throughout the story.
Consequently this is a Saturday afternoon when you have nothing to do
popcorn movie where a seemingly indestructible foe picks off the
characters one by one in a series of creative kills.Turn off the brain, and it should be fun to watch.

MartianCreature from Redondo Beach, CA - 7 September 2008

Second-Rate Chiller With Good Technical Effects

Veteran Hollywood producer Gale Anne Hurd has bankrolled her share of
popular science fiction and horror movies. She produced hits like the
"Terminator" movies, "Aliens," "Alien Nation," "The Abyss," "Tremors,"
"The Relic," "Hulk," "The Incredible Hulk," and "Armageddon."
Unfortunately, she has financed some losers, too, such as "No Escape,"
"Switchback," "Dead Man on Campus," and "Virus.""Virus" boasts a strong cast trapped amid top-drawer production values
in a stillborn plot. Sadly, with a nary a scary thing in sight, this
moody, synthetic ship of horrors saga about man versus alien machines
wallows in a quagmire of clichés. Although the premise and the plot
display some early promise, nothing new bolsters this briny tale of
technological terror. Neither the crew of heroes nor the robo-beasts
reflect any semblance of novelty. True to form, our stalwart heroes
battle these invincible demons right up to a catapulting conclusion
that mercifully leaves little room for a sequel!A ruthless but intelligent alien life-form enters Earth's orbit and
engulfs Mir, the Russian space station. Everybody onboard Mir perishes,
and the alien down-links its destructive energy to a high-tech Russian
trawler equipped to track missiles and satellites. This alien presence
infests the ship, with its array of parabolic dishes and robotic labs,
and exterminates nearly everybody onboard. With the crew out of its
way, the alien possesses the computers and reprograms the robotic labs
to assemble homicidal androids using the body parts of dead sailors.
Only Nadia Vinogradiya (Joanna Pacula of "Tombstone"), the vessel's
chief science officer, short circuits the alien's evil ambitions when
she shuts off the electricity, trapping it in stasis.Meanwhile, complications arise as a tugboat with a barge in the South
Pacific encounters a typhoon. The 'Sea Star' engineer Steve Baker
(William Baldwin of "Fair Game") demands that Captain Everton (Donald
Sutherland of "The Eagle Has Landed") release the barge. Baker fears
that rough seas will swamp the barge and deep-six the 'Sea Star,' too.
A feisty Everton refuses to cut the barge loose. He goes so far as to
brandish his revolver and aim it at Baker. The cable unravels in
typical Hollywood fashion and the barge founders. A dejected Everton
settles into his own cabin to contemplate suicide while Kelly 'Kit'
Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis of "Trading Places"), the tug's navigator,
charts a new course to put the stormy seas behind the 'Sea Star.'
Everton sticks the muzzle of his revolver in his mouth and his finger
is on the trigger when a crew member interrupts him. They have spotted
a ship on radar that appears to be dead at sea. Everton's spirits
revive when the abandoned ship emerges out of the misty seas.
Initially, they find nobody onboard alive. The rejuvenated captain
fuels everybody's dreams about salvage. Maritime law stipulates that
owners must ante up a tenth of what their ships cost to buy them back.
The crew calculates that the trawler costs $300-million, and a
delighted Everton does everything but knead his hands in fiendish
collaboration. He disperses his crew to fire up the ship's engines so
they can avoid the typhoon. The prospect of salvage serves to reunite
Everton's men and boost their morale. Predictably, sinister things then
begin to happen, and the crew disappears one at a time. The
surveillance cameras onboard monitor the sailors as intruders.Visual effects designer/director John Bruno fails to make any of this
creepy stuff seem remotely eerie. The computers signal the anchor to
drop, and Everton's tug sinks after the anchor smashes its way through
the hull. Again, an ominous scene lacks menace. Squeaky (Julio Oscar
Mechoso of "The Legend of Zorro"), a Cuban sailor, is the first to die.
He sticks his head idiotically into a pipe cluttered with cables. When
we see him next, poor Squeaky is a half-human, half-machine bent on
killing humans. Indeed, when Squeaky enters the pipe, you'll be talking
back to the screen, reprimanding him for his lack of caution.Meantime, the trawler's Russian science officer Nadia springs out of a
locker in a gas mask with a machine gun and tries to kill the captain,
Kit, and Steve while they are stitching up an injured deckhand in sick
bay. Nadia brings them up to speed about the mysterious alien. An
incredulous Everton condemns her as a raving lunatic. Eventually, the
monster confronts the crew and uses a computer to communicate with
them. This thing reveals that it considers humanity a 'virus' and vows
to destroy the crew. Before its explosive, fireball finale, "Virus"
revives every obvious horror movie cliché. Nothing surprising occurs,
and nothing jumps out to grab you. No, Curtis doesn't shed her clothes
for a convenient shower in the middle of all this chaos."Hard Target" scenarist Chuck Pfarrer and "Species" writer Dennis
Feldman don't conjure up anything that hasn't been done 10,000 times in
countless other chillers. The half-human/half-machine adversaries in
"Virus" may remind you of the Borg in "Star Trek: First Contact."
Unlike "First Contact," however, these "Virus" androids wouldn't scare
a cat. Basically, they clunk around like huge erector-set junk heaps.
They neither inspire no stimulate menace. Worse, Pfarrer and Feldman
provide no explanation for the alien presence on Earth. Have you ever
noticed how the Earth attracts aliens with the same frequency that bug
light attract insects?

Van Roberts (zardoz@bellsouth.net) from Columbus, Ms - 16 July 2008

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