Jamie Lee Curtis

William Baldwin

Donald Sutherland

Joanna Pacula

Marshall Bell

Sherman Augustus

Cliff Curtis

Julio Oscar Mechoso

Levan Uchaneishvili

Yuri Chervotkin

Keith Flippen

Olga Rzhepetskaya-Retchin

David Eggby

Chuck Pfarrer

Gale Anne Hurd

M. Scott Smith

Joel McNeely

Christopher Allen Nelson

Billy D. Lucas

Mayling Cheng

Robert J. Quinn

Donald Krafft

Deborah Everton

Jaymes Hinkle

Frank Perry Rose

Donald B. Woodruff

Tom Jones Jr.

Alan Hook

Bill Taliaferro

Richard L. Anderson

George Simpson

William G. Davis

Vic Petrotta Jr.

Dorn Merrill Kennison

Domenic Silvestri

Jean Chan

E.W. Bradford

Daniel R. Jennings

Andrew Menzies

Hilda Hodges

Alan Au

Alan Collis

Michele C. Vallillo

Charles Thomas Baxter

Jay Riddle

Joel Kramer

Craig Pettigrew

Alonzo Ruvalcaba

Jennifer Opresnick

Joseph T. Mastrolia

Johnny Caruso

Eric Lindemann

Michael Tackett

Dick Bernstein

Lori J. Nelson

John Roesch

Katrina Mastrolia

Deirdre Horgan

Tim Trella

Tom Elliott

Pam Dixon

Carla Brand Breitner

Michael Kelem

Pamela Priest

Malcolm MacIntosh

Eddie Bowlin

Mitch Lillian

Michael Bonsignore

Michael F. Burke

Mike Benson

Chip Hackler

Sal Lanza

Rick Pour

Scott Patton

David Knox

Troy N. Wade

Dennis Zoppe

Wesley R. Hardee

Tommy Ray Sullivan

Sandra S. Orsolyak

Russell G. Senato

John R. Sutton

Emanuel Millar

Bruce MacCallum

Darrell B. Sheldon

Steve Skinner

Jeffery J. Tufano

Jeff Moore

John Trapman

Keith Smith

Rusty Edmonson

Jeff Goodwin

Stephen Thompson

Billy Hendrickson

Russell Hardee

Rob Hinderstein

Matthew Cassel

Vincent J. Guastini

Dan Kaufman

Bobby Beck

Douglas Epps

Ken Kokka

Gary Burritt

Chuck Gaspar

Tom Gibbons

Shawn Broes

Lisa Cossettini

Dave Snyder

Joel Harlow

Matthew P. Welker

Peter Konig

Randy Link

Horror

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Virus

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Virus is directed by John Bruno and written by Chuck Pfarrer and  Dennis Feldman. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell, Sherman Augustus, Cliff Curtis and Julio Oscar Mechoso. Music is by Joel McNeely and cinematography by David Eggby.

The crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel and quickly sets about claiming salvage rights. However, there is something on board, just not human, and it potentially spells doom for all.

Virus is a derivative big-budget genre film that is not only a hack job, but almost certainly the lowest point of Donald Sutherland's otherwise superb career. The premise here has been mined many a time before, including the previous year to "Virus" with "Deep Rising". However, unlike "Deep Rising's" glorious sense of fun amongst the creature feature carnage, "Virus" is unintentionally funny since it's all played very straight.

The humans are up against alien robot thingies, one of which looks suspiciously like a robotic "Brundlefly" mixed with "Short Circuit's Number 5". There's a modicum of interest in the virus narrative thread, with the need for human body parts a tantalising proposition, but it looks and comes off as feeble steals from better genre pictures. The high energy finale, with whizz bangs and fire crackers, is at least played with good action intent, but by then it's too late to save a rip-off stinker that wastes a very good cast list. 3/10