Virus (1999) Movie Review

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We continue our "it came from space" theme when we review Virus (1999). Is this movie as bad as Jamie Lee Curtis says it is?

Quick Facts
Directed by John Bruno
Written by Dennis Feldman, Chuck Pfarrer, and Jonathan Hensleigh (uncredited)
Produced by Gale Anne Hurd
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: January 15, 1999
Budget: $75 million
Box office: $30.7 million

Starring
Jamie Lee Curtis as Kelly "Kit" Foster
William Baldwin as Steve Baker
Donald Sutherland as Captain Robert Everton
Joanna Pacuła as Nadia Vinogradova
Marshall Bell as J.W. Woods Jr.
Sherman Augustus as Richie Mason
Cliff Curtis as Hiko
Julio Oscar Mechoso as "Squeaky"

VHS Description
“...the sci-fi thriller that literally takes the Frankenstein story to new heights and uncharted depths.”
-The New York Times

Seeking refuge in the eye of a violent typhoon, the crew of a crippled salvage tug makes a potentially profitable discovery. A Russian military vessel, loaded with hi-tech computer hardware worth millions in salvage fees, appears abandoned by its crew. After restoring power to the ship, greedy Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland) and his navigator “Kit” (Jamie Lee Curtis) encounter a lone scientist, scared (almost) to death. She begs them to turn the ship’s power back off. But - is it too late? The haggard tug crew has no idea that an alien life form holding the ship hostage not only feeds on electricity but thrives on developing new ways of killing the “virus” on earth known as man. Who will dominate in a fight to the death against a horrifying new strain of evil?

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