Virus - Nouvelle menace

Well, I saw this on Prime in 2022 and decided to give it a view. I found it pretty similar to our pandemic, yet funny to read the prior reviews to 2020 as nobody has seen something like we have, post 2019. The cast isn't well known, but I did like the Blonde from nip tuck so I gave it a try.

In all honesty the rating should be a little higher, this idea may have been a little far fetched but it hit home since, in a lot of ways. I probably wouldn't have watched it though if it was made after 2020. As nobody cares to be reminded of the pandemic constantly, while still in it. This being 2006 is different. It also would have been worse if Facebook and social media were stronger when they filmed this. They weren't too far off.

Many similarities in this film made in 2006 with what really happened in the world starting in the Fall-Winter of 2019. That will be a good reason to watch it. Joely Richardson and Stacy Keach are another reason to watch the movie. It's well made but has lengths that will be harder to digest.

Most thought this movie was so far fetched when it came out in 2006. Then... 2020 happened and - reviews changed drastically. Not so far fetched anymore. We lived this nightmare.

What may be "fiction" now may be FACT in years to come. As bird flu in 2024 has now been contracted by humans, we'll see what the future holds...2025 is already off to a bad start.

We hope it's not a repeat of Covid with forced "immunizations" and wide-spread panic with rights being taken away. No one in 2006 thought this would EVER come true and yet it did.

Truth is stranger than fiction they say and if the past is anything to learn from, I hope we learned enough lessons in 2020.

Made-for-TV movies hold a dear place in my heart, for some reason I totally fail to grasp. There's just something I love about the inherent "B" quality that always seems to crop up in them. Not everybody sees it this way.

I gather from reading the other comments here that many of you tuned in hoping to see a movie. This is a common misconception about TV movies. You aren't really watching a movie, you're watching a two hour long episode in a TV series you will never see the rest of.

Actually, the last TV movie I saw about a pandemic disease was the multi-part adaptation of Stephen King's "The Stand," which came out embarrassingly well done. There was none of that here, but what, really, were you expecting? I have no idea how accurate the disease information in this movie is; I don't really care. The fact is that I've seen a fair amount of TV movies by ABC and CBS (none from NBC, though I hear there's one out this week) and I'd have to say that ABC makes a consistently better movie than CBS does.

CBS likes to make disaster movies. I saw BOTH "Category 6" and "Category 7" on CBS, and I'm glad to say that "Fatal Contact," though cheesy, is "Citizen Kane" compared to either of these. The characters here are fairly believable, the special effects were not overplayed (TV movies always have terrible special effects, and even their regular effects aren't that hot), and I even liked the ending. I felt it was satisfactory.

All told, TV movies are never that good. The case for most of them is that if they turned up in theaters, you would walk out and demand your money back. But with direct-to-TV productions everything's a little bit more freewheeling. Relax, and immerse yourselves in the the heavy-handed plots and shallow budgets of network feature films...

There are similarities between this film and our current situation; however, the film is much more dark. The acting for the most part is stark and lacks emotion. This film is almost like like a hastily constructed documentary. This film will not leave you in a good place.