What a beautiful movie!

Redundant and unnecessary.

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

if i were a entity without a body a place with robotics is where i'd start! ( that and human parts ) i loved this move, it reminded me of playing DOOM on PC for the first time when it came out, i liked the story myself and i wish there were more movies like this one. ( robotics, human parts etc..) i think i have watched them all from Hardware 1990, all the terminator movies but this one stands out to me. the only thing i wish is that i wish i could had seen more of the "goliath" in the movie. if you have not seen this movie, give it a shot or look up some images on google or look through the images here to get an idea of what it's about, if you like horror and robotics i think it may be your cup of tea. :)

As a typhoon approaches the South Pacific, some mysterious outer space force attacks a Russian "missile and satellite tracking" ship. Nearby, a small America tugboat barely weathers the storm. Led by steadfast navigator Jamie Lee Curtis (as Kelly "Kit" Foster) and handsome engineer William Baldwin (as Steve Baker), the crew barely makes it into the eye of the storm. Hoping to make repairs, they instead encounter and board the Russian ship, which is seemingly deserted. The huge vessel has 42 labs and is valuable as a salvage ship. If no Russian personnel survive, those returning the ship will be paid millions of dollars. After losing his tugboat's cargo, heavily-accented Captain Donald Sutherland (as Robert Everton) wants to collect the cash. Naturally, he hopes to find no survivors. This puts him at odds with attractive scientist Joanna Pacula (as Nadia Vinogradova)...Special effects wizard John Bruno directs this Dark Horse comic book adaptation. Not surprisingly, "Virus" is a special effects movie. It starts off with an attack and storm. The subsequent, short characterization period really doesn't endear us to the cast, who seem very stereotypical. We should have a much stronger time getting to know the characters. That we may not want to know them is another problem. Also, there is also no real suspense as things immediately get rough for the crew; consequently, there is little time to dread the villainous presence or care what it kills. An ambiguous ending jolt seems to be setting up a possible sequel, but we were probably better off letting this "Virus" run its course.***** Virus (1/15/99) John Bruno ~ Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula

No wonder Jamie lee Curtis stated that this movie was the worst in her entire career. Its alright all in all but the focus of the movie is on a Russian science ship that is found by Donald Sutherlands crew. The Ship is alive and thinks the Crew is a virus. OK no problem right? seems not to bad. Until you start to watch it, the characters seem rather odd and somewhat hard to take seriously, Donald Sutherland sounds strange at times as if hes trying to do an accent every so often but never pans out what kind of accent he was trying to achieve. Every character is very bland and you find it hard to focus on the happenings around them, cliché lines and cheesy robotic bad guys. Humans turned into robots just seem strange rather than scary, they are supposed to be threatening i guess to the crew but they always manage to get their butts kicked quickly, so much for the robot humans. Sometimes there is moments that don't make sense. At the start of the film when first finding the science ship they make note there is no weapons on board. But throughout the movie we find machine guns, a Missile room?, and various other weapons throughout the ship. The movie is a B rated movie at best but to be fair to B rated movies this is actually not even that good. Id pass up this movie if I were you but its your choice if you really like bad flicks.

While not a mega sci-fi hit it does have a very creepy vibe. The story is simple and a variation on many but not too predictable in that you really don't know who will get it or when. Overall the tension gets tighter and tighter as the film progresses and you are not cheated by the end. The creatures are actually very well done and creative. They are quite menacing and gives the film the creep factor I spoke of. The acting is good as it has a solid cast and a decent script. The set itself is an actual ship, not a man made fabrication. It makes for a nice late night time waster or Sunday afternoon movie. The creature effects are actually so good I'm surprised they didn't get a slew of awards.