Touches You

To me, this movie is perfection.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

There is an excellent idea here, and wonderful actors to play it out, but the storyline is too complicated for this film's good. The bizarre subplot involving a nefarious military doctor trying to cover up crimes of 30 years earlier, aiming to sacrifice thousands of lives to save his own reputation and neck -- well, it seems to me it just wasn't necessary. The more simple story line of an Ebola-type illness traveling from an obscure African war zone to a cozy California community -- that's more than enough to intrigue a movie audience!This film does a good job of showing how a virus could conceivably make its way to the American homeland through the actions of a few people making a few short-sighted, self-serving decisions. The movie is at its scary best when it shows the terrible implications of such seemingly benign acts as taking a cute animal out of its natural environment and kissing at the airport.Dustin Hoffman carries this film despite its many flaws. Observing how he single handedly tracks down the original host of the deadly microbe -- risking his job, saving the life of his ex-wife, and winning her back to his affections along the way -- is part of the fun and turns him into an everyman's super-hero. I'm glad I saw "Outbreak." It's interesting consider its similarities with the similarly themed "Contagion." Each succeeds in scaring you, getting you to care about the principals, and teaching you something about infectious disease. But neither is a movie for the ages.

There is a pandemic of an extremely infectious and fast-acting virus with a hundred percent fatal outcome. While virologists are trying to curb the spread and save the sick, the army is preparing to bomb the affected area to prevent anyone from finding out it was a biological weapon they lost control of. Pretty tense and very well done with a fantastic cast - Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Patrick Dempsey.8/10

so we have a film that the virus is the star but the cast is superb carrying a deadly virus that had no known cure so deadly that it causes severe bleeding and liquefies internal organs, killing within 3 days. with The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey' and Cuba Gooding Jr.. so in 60s in Zaire In a valley called motaba valley where a river was there were little monkeysThe virus kills everyone wipes out Motaba River Valley so with the army dropping a Hugh fireball bomb in order to get rid of the..Extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. But how extreme, exactly? so in order to study the virus we in a laboratory in fort detrick study all disease where see .27 years later, there is another outbreak in Zaire in 1994, there is another outbreak in Motaba River Valley. At the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), located at Fort Detrick in Maryland,.Dustin Hoffman plays a feisty virologist Colonel Sam Daniels is doing research on the Motaba virus, and so is his ex-wife Roberta Keough, who works at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. A monkey carrying the Motaba virus stows away on a boat illegal carried for a pet shop owner jumbo played by a young Patrick Dempsey gets sick from being in contact with the monkey and because it airborne the the virus spread rapidly so when doctors don't know whats going the call every one Rene Russo plays acharacter called Robby Keough as love interest to Hoffman's character she study all these diseases she is given a good script a another young cast member Kevin Spacy is brilliant is a doctor with a wicked sense of humour but the two main characters who have their finger on the trigger literally they play off each other Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland seem to be having fun with the material and things they are the good and the bad but the two Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland seem to be having fun with the material and things get interested when they clash at the end. The film,is thrilling (e.g a spectacular helicopter chase and an attempt to break out of the quarantined town in California two generals there's going to be conflicts as when one finds away to help people they clash as when Cuba gooding character major salt helps out with Sam's ideas they have to evade every one and anyone to get what they want including get in the way of direct orders gets on board with and get interested when they clash at the end. But overall this film is brilliant, I strongly advise everyone tries to watch this. it isn't everyone's cup of tea but is still a brilliant edge of the seat

Whilst far from perfect 'Outbreak' is solid entertainment. A lethal virus is transported to the United States via an African monkey host. The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infections Diseases and the Centre for Disease Control are two Federal agencies headed by an ex-husband and his former wife rush to stop its deadly spread, while figures in the military are prepared to go to extreme measures to prevent it's spread. I saw this movie in the cinema in 1995 with my then girlfriend, and we both enjoyed it, but for some reason, I have never watched it since. Dustin Hoffman is an actor who will rarely sell you short (not pun intended) he is fantastic in everything I have seen him in, from 'Marathon Man' and 'Kramer V's Kramer' or 'Mr Magoriums Wonder Emporium' and 'Tootsie' or his Oscar winning turn in 'Rain Man'. He is always a delight to watch, and the fact that he teams up with Morgan Freeman, made it a must see. Freeman, for years prior to this, could do no wrong in my eyes (From 'Driving Miss Daisy' and 'Glory' onwards through 'Prince Of Thieves' with Kevin Costner and 'Unforgiven' with Clint Eastwood. And whilst it would be a while before he actually played God. The man was amazing in everything he did.) Any movie became promising, just by having his name in the cast.Rene Russo was here too and she was establishing herself as a top actress after good performances in 'Lethal Weapon 3' and 'In The Line of Fire'Kevin Spacey squeezed this movie in, inbetween 'The Usual Suspects' and 'Seven' Cuba Gooding Jr has a good role too. Also worthy of note is the actress Michelle Joyner has a touching/sad/tragic subplot. The actress has a bit of a career as the tragic supporting character in movies. She's the woman in the opening sequence of 'Cliffhanger' with Sly Stallone as well. Then there is Donald Sutherland as the villain of the peace. I have been a fan of Sutherland's for years. He is another actor I will always watch. Sure the movie has a few plot holes, and it leaves a lot of loose ends as the credits role. But I was so hooked throughout the movie, I'm more than willing to overlook a few flaws.