So much average

Simply Perfect

Brilliant and touching

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Virus is about a group of people who investagate a ship and find out that a techno-virus has infected $#!+ and starts building mechanical robots and cyborgs for some reason. It is solely the conception is the reason why I gave this movie a high score. I can not believe I missed this one because the scene with all the mechanics and flesh bonding is what I create in my art. So, ho ho, I loved this movie. But yes, if the concept was anything else, I would say "this is a typical survival horror that is uninspiring and unoriginal and, seriously, they need good writers like a mother******. But the pacing and bloody violence was happy fun." But this movie is cyber-punk gold so go plug a hairy butt.

"Virus", brings to the screen the story of a crew whose ship is badly damaged when struck by a typhoon in the Pacific, as it stumbles across a seemingly abandoned Russian ship. Things get a bit more complicated when they are introduced to the ship's new occupants... Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, and the rest of the cast carry out their performances very well.The plot is full of holes. Once the computer comes on, the first thing it does is sink the American ship, which means it is still stranded in the ocean. It has apparently read all the Russian computers, and does not realize that if it keeps sinking ships, they will just sink it. Also the Russian navy would send a destroyer to sink it if they lost contact and found Americans on it. The director apparently forgot he was on a ship, and it builds a machine for itself as big as a room, but manages to move through the doorway and gangways of a ship without leaving a clue. Once the Americans turn back on the power., all the little robots that it built out of parts of Computers and ship come to life, and start building more of the little monsters. Yet two of the Americans, watch this to find the robots antics funny rather then completely strange. They are attacked by half man, half machine robots, who have the worst aim possible. In corridors and rooms it fires off magazine after magazine of machine gun fire, and hits nothing.The dialogue is mostly very good with tension build up and intense lines. Action scenes however, loaded with special effects and saturated with a coarse taste of humour, subtracts from the atmosphere and status of the film considerably. Towards the end, the plot becomes untenable as it twists and turns into the more and more ridiculous. The Story line I found was ultimately very weak and character development practically non-existent. I felt technically the film was well made and transitions sound, but the directing was a bit of a let down.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.

Virus...I rented this movie picturing some sort of world wide epidemic of HIV you could catch like a cold. Nothing of the sort of course. The minute I saw the fake looking sea surrounding the tug boat...I thought this is going to be a dog. I was right. Turns out the virus is either an alien computer program or the alien computer program thinks humans are viruses...I was never quite clear on that point.Someone else commented that science fiction has to fit science... in this movie nothing looks functional from a scientific view point ..the small robots with leather wings look like they are made from a child's erector set and a dead bat. Ditto for the larger half cadaver half erector set machines all of which have to be hooked by cables to the central computer... I guess the aliens had not advanced to wireless connections despite having flying saucers etc.... it is just dumb dumb and more dumb.Gee how convenient that the ship has rocket powered ejector seats??? Huhhh? I bet the Russians install them on all their military ship!!! As some one else stated this is half slasher half half science fiction and bad at both. 75 million (cost of movie) you have to be joking! Nothing is frightening or exciting in this movie.

I wouldn't delete "Virus" off your list just yet..."Virus" is not a film that you go into expecting good performances or even mild shocks (even though it does have a few). The film is from producer Gale Anne Hurd ("Aliens"), which explains some otherwise exceptional special effects midst a tedious plot that rips off "Alien" (1979), "The Terminator" (1984), "Aliens" (1986), and many other science fiction blockbusters.The movie's message is also quite obvious from the outset: mankind sucks, mankind is a "virus" that needs to be exterminated, and the deadly electronic extraterrestrial entity that has arrived on Earth to kill us is the "cure." And such is this profane end-of-the-20th-century technophobic subtext that makes it only mildly scary and sets it apart from other similar-minded films. That also makes this "creature" somewhat unique amongst other movie monsters (more on this later).The film opens somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when a Russian research vessel is conducting a transmission with the Russian space station Mir. In the middle of the space transmission, Mir encounters the aforementioned malevolent electronic entity and it beams itself down to Earth on-board the Russian freighter, creating all sorts of havoc in the course of its arrival. Eight days later, the crew of the Sea Star discovers the freighter and unwisely decides to board it, hoping for a huge $300 million payday from the Russian government for the return of the salvaged vessel.The crew is led by the corrupt and deeply indebted Captain Robert Everton (Donald Sutherland), and his navigator and second-in-command Kit Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis). The rest of the Sea Star includes Steven Baker (William Baldwin), Woods (Marshall Bell), Richie (Sherman Augustus), Hiko (Cliff Curtis), and Squeaky (Julio Oscar Mechoso). They discover one survivor aboard the crippled Russian freighter, Nadya (Joanna Pacula), who also has an exceptionally firm grasp of the English language.Nadya at first seems crazed and strangely unconcerned for her own safety, except that the Sea Star crew turn off the power to the ship. She explains that the alien life-form that killed the Mir cosmonauts downloaded itself down to Earth on-board their freighter, disabling it in the process and taking over the ship's electrical systems (the alien life-form needs electrical power to function), and then began killing the Russian crew members and that soon the same thing could happen to them.The plot, based on co-screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer's Dark Horse comic book series of the same name from the early 1990s, is actually pretty interesting and cool-sounding; I might just try to track it down and read it myself to see if it's any better than the movie. The alien life-form that antagonizes the poor Sea Star crew members is also pretty unique and cool-sounding: the creature itself is a malevolent electronic entity from deep space with no physical form, but ends up having to give itself one from the "spare parts" made out of the ship's electrical systems and equipment, and human flesh (since it views humans as anti-thetical to its existence and "spare parts" are the only thing we're good for, apparently).It is clear that John Bruno's "Virus" is a paycheck sort of movie for its three otherwise bankable, big-name Hollywood stars (Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland). If it weren't for the big paycheck, I think they would have let it go to lesser-known "B"-movie actors. I also just mean to say that the movie is well-acted, for this sort of tedious monster movie production. You also really shouldn't knock the film's plot, since you know exactly where it's going to go before even watching this well-made, albeit quite shoddy, sci-fi/thriller.You should only watch "Virus" for its creature special effects and a few nice man-machine hybrids (that somehow or another remind you of the fearsome Borg from the "Star Trek" TV series and 1996's "Star Trek: First Contact"). Save it for a late-night-type of deal (or early-morning-type deal, like me).5/10