Flying Virus

There, I did it again... After going through this phase (a few months ago) of wanting to see as many killer-bee movies as possible, its sting must have left something in my system, because last week I got me 2 other killer-bee movies... As we all know, Rutger Hauer is the man, so I just had to see this one. Basically Mr. Hauer's pretty hilarious performance of a corrupt military bad-ass/bad guy is the only thing that kept my going through this movie. He's great and has the best lines of the whole movie. Watch him kill off an entire innocent tribe. Watch him kill even an entire civilized town. Watch him say "Actually, bees are allergic to ME!" and then see him get killed by a crocodile! Extremely fun stuff, but the rest of the movie.... Well, the movie has two story-lines. One about the rain forest being destroyed for commercial profits, the other one is... uhm, well: Bees on a Plane. That's it. Oh yeah, the scene where Graig Sheffer was hanging on a rope outside a flying plane was a hoot! You've got to see it to believe it. Highly unbelievable stuff. Maybe so-bad-it's-good... And Gabrielle Anwar is kinda cute.

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs

Yay,what better way to enjoy a Wednesday night in front of the telly than with a good-old DTV Rutger Hauer movie.Right?Er,sadly no.To start with,the purpose is kind of defeated when Hauer's screentime is really limited.But this is really the least of your problems.Cliched characters,comically low budget bee effects and laughable dialogue throughout are.Oh,and it's also overlong.Just letting you know.*

Don't watch this if you want a great movie. Watch this because it is a fun B scifi--horror movie. Some of the effects are good, especially when you remember this is not a big budget film.(I hope it wasn't.) I try to see all of Rutger Hauer's films,but I wonder why he choose this one. I guess Anwar is becoming the queen of the B's. It was fun to see Adam Wylie all grown up, you'll recognize him right away. The fun begins in the plane, not for those on board, but for us. It's so bad I couldn't stop watching.

It's dumb, but really worth the view. Give it a watch and see if you agree.

No one takes this thing to seriously and that helps a lot. The story is paper thin, but it proceeds fast enough. The airplane stuff is hilarious and Craig Sheffer seems to be well in to the spirit of things. He's no Brando, but he plays this stuff in an acceptable manner. The charms of Ms. Anwar have always eluded me, but she's as good as most this time out. Rutger Hauer's on board too and that pains me. This guy is to good to be making this much crap. Flying Virus is a stupid title but genre fans will stick with this movie.

A popcorn film. Make that a butter-free popcorn film.

Well... only worth watching if you really have nothing better to do. The story is ludicrous, the dialogue embarrassing and the special effects cheesy in the extreme. However, it did provide some laughs. It is worth watching just for the aeroplane sequences. How they persuaded Rutger Hauer to appear in this is hard to imagine and while Gabrielle Anwar is not the greatest actress in the world she would have been hard put to do much with this dialogue. I would love to know how much the budget was for this movie. They can't have shot more than one take of anything and I should think the whole thing was made in a week. Have fun!