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Virus
Director: John Bruno
Product Group: DVD
Studio: Universal Studios
ISBN: B00000IQVQ
EAN: 9780783234229
UPC: 025192043123
DVD
DVD Sides: 1
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 100 minutes
Original Release Date: 1999-01-15
Theatrical Release Date: 1999-01-15
Release Date: 1999-07-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
SKU: BX015-A14
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Non-rental DVD in original case with insert (widescreen, as pictured. Minor wear, near new.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
In this fast-paced, sci-fi/horror shoot-'em-up based on the Dark Horse comic book, Jamie Lee Curtis plays the navigator of an ocean-going tug. When a typhoon cripples their boat, the crew sails into the eye of the storm, where they discover a high-tech Russian communications and research vessel adrift. Only one Russian crewmember is still alive, raving about "intelligent lightning." They soon discover that an alien life form has taken over the ship's computers and is churning out biomechanical warriors. With their own boat destroyed, the crew must battle the creature as the ship reenters the storm. If the basic story and characters all sound familiar, it may not surprise you that producer Gale Anne Hurd's other films include The Terminator and Aliens. This movie and its derivative screenplay aren't nearly as good as those were, and director John Bruno (who won an Oscar for best visual effects for The Abyss) seems more skilled at action choreography and special effects than character and story. Curtis plays another variation on her "scream queen" persona, while Donald Sutherland gives a deliciously hammy performance as the tug captain (in his words, "the dominant life form") who smells salvage money if he can claim the Russian ship for his own. For all the picture's flaws, the effects are good (and gory) and it moves at top speed for a brisk 100 minutes. A trivia factoid: at one point on this troubled production, film footage was seized at the airport because the shipping box was prominently marked with the film's title! --Geof Miller
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Customer Reviews
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Funny
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-09-01
This has to be one of the worst movies ever made...
I gave it 2 stars just because it made me laugh in the process...what was donald sutherland thinking along with Jamie Lee Curtis! I wouldn't recommend this to anyone...
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Great "B" Movie with Great Actors!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-24
Some prominant actors in a great drive-in type classic. Some gruesome gore and a couple dark comedic moments. This has to be the worst virus you could ever hope not to catch. I saw this on the sci-fi channel and just had to own it. Virus takes erector sets to a whole new level. Highly recommended for good brainless fun!
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i rate it a "meh"..., but GREAT Dolby mix
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-06-09
Story: crew in tight quarters being hunted down by... something.
Script/dialogue: no real laughs or suspense.
Special effects: surprising. Makes you wish CGI went away, and more college kids played with latex and squibs.
Acting: Jamie Lee Curtis: credible job. Donald Sutherland: LAUGHABLY bad accent. William Baldwin: looked pretty when he had to. Joanna Pakula: played someone pretty with an accent.
Dolby audio: the only reason I gave this DVD 3 stars. AMAZING! Set your receiver to Dolby enhanced EX or an equivalent. I was going to use the DVD as trade bait in a used DVD shop until I watched it and was stunned by the effort that went into the audio mix. Not exactly "Master & Commander', but very good for its time.
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Home Sweet Home
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-12-25
I lived on this ship the "USNS Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg" for about 5 years. I worked for RCA Missile Test Project and thats what it did, Track Missiles and Space Junk. I could watch this thing every week but I'd probably wear out my player. I'm glad it got some news cause when I ws on it it did not offically exist.
Joe Cuzzzzz
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Human sacrifice versus cosmic invasion
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-07-20
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 naïve. 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
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