Virus

Its one of those sort of films where the hero does the lot-he kills people he steals a motorbike,he steals dynamite from the armoury,he slugs people left and right he blows up a stream which is travelling underground -belive it or not to the very area where the President is giving a speech-and in the end Saves The World!! The only thing he can't do is fly but he probably could if he donned a Cape! Its real lowest common denominator stuff which had over 500 people work on it nevertheless. The distributors must have been bribed with a big consignment of drugs-I mean people have difficulty getting films released which have turned out winners at the box office eg the biopic of Ray Charles was 15 years in the planning and making stages

What to say about this movie? Well, it's unoriginal, predictable, boring and all that. It's badly directed and acting can't be even mentioned in a same sentence with this movie.

So the great story of the movie goes somewhere along lines deadly virus stolen, me brave presidents bodyguard will save the day. Me kill the terrorists and so on.

What comes to action, one scene has burned itself on my mind: a car driving off the cliff and exploding in midair without any reason at all. Blasted cars... they are sneaky that way.

This movie is probably one of those, which are sold along those good movies every TV station wants to show, so it's quite possible to catch it from TV from once in a while, but don't go and buy it, because it really isn't that bad it would be funny. Spill is just that bad, that it's bad and the worst of it, it really is boring.

I use Killer Klowns (from outer space) as my baseline for bad movies, but this make Killer Klowns look like an Oscar winner. I felt compelled to watch the entire movie in the hopes that there might be a small redeeming ray of light, but I was wrong. His had to be a "vanity" movie, where one pays to have it produced and distributed, because no legitimate studio would have spent a penny to make this film.

The only thing I can think of is maybe it was a high school film project.

The acting was beyond bad and the special effects were terrible. The plot line, there is not even a word to describe it because unbelievably stupid is too good.

It is hard to believe that the producers thought was a "work of art"

The only reason to watch this movie is to see how really bad a movie can be.

At a Prodichem chemical plant in New Jersey, there is an accident involving a secret biological warfare project. Only Alex Bur survives, and he contacts Leo Burns of the New York Tribune.

Alex is soon dead, but not before announcing he has a plan whose details are unknown.

At a press conference, President John Lawrence Wheeler and adviser Eric Black deny everything, but Black is actually in charge of the project, which President Wheeler knows nothing about.

Secret Service Agent Ken Fairchild, who showed his talent when the President appeared threatened at the press conference, is assigned to check out Thermal Wells National Park in advance of the One World Conference the President is attending. Fairchild ends up being a bumbling idiot in the great outdoors and must be rescued by veterinarian Dr. Larraine Keller. This is the first of several comic moments with these two.

Meanwhile, Ripley has been hired to transport a shipment from Prodichem. He is either drunk or crazy or both, and it is the same dangerous chemical from the accident earlier in the movie that he is delivering.

Can you guess where Ripley will end up?

There are some positive qualities in this movie. The scenery at Thermal Wells is beautiful, and that's with no snow at all. There are no camera shots from a distance with snow. Camp David is also beautiful. Most of the leading actors have a few good moments, but no one delivers a consistent performance. Daniel Kash as Ripley, Leah Pinsent as Lorraine and Chuck Shamata as Leo come the closest.

The stunt players do a good job, especially the one(s) playing Ripley. One sequence involving Ripley and his truck is actually quite well done, though far short of the gold standard of "Breakdown". I am curious about why the film quality is so different in part of the sequence; it's as if the rest of the film is videotaped and these shots are filmed. But it's effective.

And there is some excitement involving the truck and toward the end. It's actually enjoyable to watch our heroes work toward their goal, if you're not too picky about details and quality. The writing is halfway intelligent (geology experts might disagree) toward the end.

The real evidence that quality was not a priority: inconsistency. At Thermal Wells, everything is covered with snow in one scene, and the snow is still falling heavily. Then there is only a little snow. Then no snow has fallen at all. Then there is a little snow on the ground. then everything is covered again. Then the sky is perfectly clear and no snow has fallen anywhere. Oh, and let's not forget this: if a man and a woman are on a motorcycle, regardless of what has happened anywhere else, there MUST be just a little snow on the ground. This is explained (when nothing has happened yet that I can see): at high altitudes the weather changes quickly. One apparently doesn't need to travel far in this territory for drastic changes to take place. No one should have scheduled the One World Conference for someplace like this.

And then there are the medical inconsistencies. In the first scene, people die a gruesome, bloody death. So others can experience the same illness, appear dead, and end up recovering as if nothing has happened? Again, this is explained away.

If one doesn't get too picky, it is still possible to enjoy this movie. If for no other reason, to laugh at all its problems.

What do David Fox, Leah Pinsent, and Eric Peterson have in common? They're all great actors stuck in a bad movie with other actors with only a quarter the talent and skill they have. But that's not what turns me off. What turns me off is the fact that the plot isn't interesting at all. Even those three are bored with it! And what can they do? It's not like every producer in the country is after them for their next movie break. It's not like we have much money to spend furthering their careers either. They deserve more. I only saw this movie because they were in it. I just hope they appear in a much better movie, with more integrity than this one.