Virus
16/06/11
Virus
WHEN THE CREW OF A CRIPPLED TUGBOAT DISCOVERS A DESERTED, Hi there-TECH RUSSIAN MILITARY SHIP, THEY ALSO Uncover A FEROCIOUS ALIEN ELECTRICAL Existence Sort WAITING Inside, A BLOODTHIRSTY ENTITY, Studying Rapidly HOW TO Ruin THE VIRUS Known AS Male.In this quick-paced, sci-fi/horror shoot-’em-up primarily based on the Dark Horse comic e-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 learn a higher-tech Russian communications and analysis vessel adrift. Only a single Russian crewmember is still alive, raving about “intelligent lightning.” They shortly learn that an alien daily life form has taken about the ship’s pcs and is churning out biomechanical warriors. With their very own boat destroyed, the crew must battle the creature as the ship reenters the storm. If the standard story and characters all sound acquainted, it might not shock you that producer Gale Anne Hurd’s other movies contain The Terminator and Aliens. This motion picture and its derivative screenplay are not practically as great as people had been, and director John Bruno (who won an Oscar for finest visual results for The Abyss) appears much more experienced at action choreography and unique effects than character and tale. Curtis plays another variation on her “scream queen” persona, although Donald Sutherland gives a deliciously hammy functionality as the tug captain (in his words, “the dominant life form”) who smells salvage cash if he can declare the Russian ship for his individual. For all the picture’s flaws, the effects are excellent (and gory) and it moves at top pace for a brisk 100 minutes. A trivia factoid: at one stage on this troubled creation, movie footage was seized at the airport since the shipping box was prominently marked with the film’s title! –Geof Miller
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Swiss cheese has fewer holes than this story,
This has got to be THE worst movie I have ever seen, with the exception of Hardware.
In no particular order, here is what stood out to me about the sheer stupidity of the story: The russian woman who managed to stay alive for a week after the ship was initially taken over: She managed to cut off the power to the alien, so why didn’t she destroy the computer it was inhabiting?
The crew: They allow themselves to be sent through a typhoon by a clearly unstable captain.
No background: Who are these people? The navigator (Jamie Lee) is ex-navy we learn thru a picture in the background. One guy is ex-navy also apparently. He mentions being a Ordnance Specialist at one point. So whats he doing on the crew? Apparently being a Ordnance Specialist makes one a mechanical genius capable of creating an escape device out of a rocket and spare parts.
Everytime the crew are attacked by a “monster” they attempt to shoot it dead even though it has no substantial body. Its also established early that the way it is kept under control of the alien entity is by a mass of cables dragging behind the “monster”. So why not chop the cables? Would that be TOO easy?
The high point of the movie? The ending credits.
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|Comment by K. Poudrier "righter8" — June 16, 2011 @ 1:38 pm
Cybernetics has never looked tastier…,
A team of Russian cosmonauts encounter a strange, malevolent electrical being in space just before transmitting data down to a research vessel, the Vladislav Volkov in the South Pacific, and inadvertently wind out transmitting the being.
In the meantime, the tugboat Sea Star is struggling with a large cargo in tow and gets caught in Typhoon Leiah, with some spectacular special effects on the storm in this scene. After loosing the cargo they must head for the eye of the storm in order to repair their boat, and meet up with the abandoned and derelict Russian research vessel. The captain claims the vessel as salvage and sets alight the crew’s dreams of big money in the salvage fees.
When they power up the Russian ship in order to bring her in, they unwittingly release the electrical being, starting up all the monstrosities it had already managed to create before being shut down by the remaining survivor of the Russian crew.
The visuals are superb on the cybernetic creations, gory and disgusting; and the suspense as the survivors struggle to best the living, intelligent being is palatable and thick. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, and William Baldwin give excellent performances, and the supporting cast as well. Derelict ship, creepy monster, lots of action, sexy heroine…and lots of blood and guts give this tasty morsel five stars on my list. Enjoy!
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|Comment by Schtinky "Schtinky" — June 16, 2011 @ 2:28 pm