Terminal Error
August. 14,2002 PG-13Michael Nouri stars in this high-tech thriller as Brad Weston, a digital tycoon who must fend off attacks from his former partner, who's unleashed a computer virus onto the entire system at his firm Autocom. But the virus appears to be a true menace that's determined to destroy anyone -- or anything -- that comes its way. Now, Weston must rely on his son (Matthew Ewald), a teenager with a penchant for hacking, to stop the menace in its tracks.
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So much average
Sick Product of a Sick System
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
OK. I like Marina too . I wanted to give this more, but my brain hurt from the assault on my intelligence. Maybe it hurt so much cause I work in computers and know how impossible this all is.it's like a bad gas station puts gas in cars and makes them jump and fly into a mountain at 200 miles an hour. But hey Marina is still cute and I hope she gets better work then this, I gave an extra point for her.glad she got into "Crash" this was axially a good movie. although this was made in 2002 I thought it would be in the late 1980's. before a lot was known about computers by the general public. computers cannot adjust your power circuits in your house or make your TV fry. "Tron" was a movie in the late 80's which was almost as corny and stupid. but I would give it a 5 for entertainment and forgiveness from the time it was written. but this movie do sen't warranty the ten lines they wanted me to write so I had to include other movies. That is all.
This has been the most awful film I have ever seen. These kind of films most often have special effects which are breath taking. For what I have seen, even King Kong (the 1933 version) has better special effects (and that without the use of a computer!). Picture the special effect at a thunderbirds level and this is what you receive. The storyline is stupid. For instance we are talking here about a world threatening virus. This virus will destroy everything on the surface of the earth. And only the mare the city is spoken to. If this guy should be some sort of bill gates .. He is driving a car belonging to a beer bellied salesman or some sort of construction worker (not to offend these type of professions). And then the plot, it is soooooooo predictable. Alright, this DVD costed me only one euro but even that was wayyyyyy to much. At least it helps in building a large DVD collection )looks nice in the cupboard'!!!
Irredeemably amateurish as this is, it is more entertaining than many big-name flicks...maybe on account of its very trashiness.Nouri, something less than an A-list actor even in his prime, plays Brad Weston, head of the crappiest looking software company you ever saw. After Busfield (employee reject of the year) throws a spaz and uses Weston's son to download a smart virus into the company computer (in a song no less)which manages among other things to blow a Ukraine nuclear facility to the hereafter - this has to be the WORST special effect ever foisted on to the viewing public at large - things just get dopier.One must pay homage admittedly to the plastic plane sequences, not to mention the hand-drawn silo launching fx. Salaries aside (assuming anyone was PAID for this) the film obviously had a budget of less than $500....refreshments included! Defying plausibility from the word go, the conceptual brilliance of wiping out an entrenched super-virus, capable of speech and thought incidentally, with a hand-held "Game-Boy" is nothing short of awesome in its originality.A classic of low-rent sci-fi.
We're supposed to believe a computer goofball gives a 'virus' to a kid in a song which gets on the kid's dad's computer and infects multiple city facilities...killing people and blowing up phone booths. Yeah, and the virus is a 'smart virus' which makes judgement calls. No thrills, no monsters to watch (unless you count Timothy Busfield (goofball); or Michael Nouri looking very old, and not even remotely giving a performance. Marina Sirtis is very ill-used here. I hope she smacked the screen writer and the director after she saw this drivel.