Virus: Critic Reviews

Your average winter cold follows a less predictable course.

As long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content.

The last shot is an homage to The African Queen, a movie I earnestly recommend instead of this one.

Until the diverting special effects take center stage, this story, about an alien intelligence that builds an army out of flesh and metal, pathetically exploits genre conventions without generating self-reference, camp, or thrills.

A derivative sci-fi shocker that isn't likely to spark much interest beyond its target audience of undemanding genre fans.

Completely predictable and largely fright-free!

Frankly, about 20 minutes into this dud, I was rooting for the alien beasties.

95 minutes of unrelieved tedium.

An unpretentious, amusing thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror thriller / monster movie that plugs right into fears of a Y2K crisis.

The next worse thing to getting a virus is to catch this bacteria friendly film.

Virus makes another loud and colourful case for the special-effects epidemic.

While he can fling together a competent action or special effects sequence, his handling of the plot and actors is strictly routine.

a respectable little thriller that packs a couple of genuine jolts and gallon upon gallon of gore into a goofy, sometimes suspenseful yarn.

No one in the right mind would call this a good film, or even a decent one, but thankfully, rookie feature director John Bruno's romp is not a complete waste of celluloid.

Even Donald Sutherland in the potentially juicy role as a self-serving old sea dog, is wasted in this big budget ill.

Monster movie is a monstrous failure.

When the automated robotic lab starts using dead bodies as biological material to create killing machines programmed to believe man is harmful and must be destroyed.

bathed in an incessant gloom that makes it look like one of the comic book artists who inspired this sci-fi/horror hybrid spilled his ink blotter on the film's negatives

The dialogue tends toward the obvious, and the characters are constantly explaining what is happening to one another.

A poorly conceived thriller that sidesteps everything that really would be interesting about an Ebola outbreak in favor of an overused plot.

Hugely predictable!

How many cliches can one film incorporate or steal from other movies?

Not pretty. And not scary, either.