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

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I'd read that Jamie Lee Curtis considered this the worst movie of her career. I suppose I then went into it expecting something quite awful, but was surprised to find it wasn't nearly as bad as so many horror/sci-fi films out there.The acting, whilst not the best I've seen from the likes of Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin or Jamie Lee Curtis, is hardly the worst acting you could unfortunately expect from movies of this genre. It was also good to see supporting actors in there such as Cliff Curtis, whom I'm immensely enjoying watching right now in Fear the Walking Dead, putting in solid efforts. The production values are quite competent. Camera work, lighting and sound editing are all a pass.The plot was nothing new but is always a favourite of mine. It seems that whenever a movie comes out about a person or crew investigating a derelict/abandoned ship, space station, military base or some such other thing, I'm all over it. I suppose this hearkens back to my favourite movie of all time being The Thing and always hoping for something just as good.A very pleasant surprise was the lack of CGI use. If looking back on the late 90s and early 00s has proved to me anything in retrospect, it's that CGI-laden movies made then by today's standards look utterly terrible. Some did okay, like Event Horizon and Twister, but others are just awful to look at, such as The Scorpion King and The Phantom Menace. Virus, to me, was comparable in special effects to the movie Screamers in that it has its CGI moments when it calls for them and ONLY when it calls for them.Overall, I'd give this one about a 6.8 out of 10 if I could rate a little more accurately. It won't set your world on fire, but it's hardly the worst way you could spend an evening on the sofa with a beer and a movie.

Decent sci-fi horror/thriller. OK, it's not exceptional in any way but it's also not the steaming pile of poo that its rating here would suggest. I was expecting it to be a real stinker judging by some of the reviews I've read. On the contrary, it was a perfectly watchable movie of its type. Entertaining to a small degree but never dull. The cast isn't bad. Jamie Lee Curtis is the best of the lot. Donald Sutherland hams it up some with a silly Lucky Charms accent. I ask you though -- in what way is that not fun? Maybe people hate it because it has a "dumb action movie" quality about it. Sci-fi fans can be a prickly sort sometimes.

Virus is based on a Dark Horse comic book. It has a lot of behind the scenes talent such as Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator/Aliens), director John Bruno is an Oscar winner for visual effects for The Abyss and also did the VFX for Terminator 2, Titanic amongst other films.It is no surprise then that the film rips off many of these films in the genre especially as it becomes Aliens meets Robocop meets Terminator as an electrical based alien life form that views humans as a virus, only useful as spare parts and slowly converts the humans into cyborgs.The film starts off in a Russian space station before setting in a Russian ship. Our heroine is Jamie Lee Curtis a navigator in a tugboat with uninsured cargo destroyed in a typhoon. The salty captain of the ship, is mean, a drunkard and on the verge of catastrophic failure. He is played by Donald Sutherland. They stumble on the now abandoned Russian ship and want to take it as valuable salvage before they realise something else is also aboard.Lee Curtis shows a lot of spirit, she is assisted by a bland William Baldwin. Sutherland is the hissable villain, a mixture of Captain Hook and Quint from Jaws. The special effects are very good but the script is a let down and the film comes across as dull.

I'll give it 10 stars, because I don't think it deserves the current (very low) rating. It's rated 4.6/10 currently. I would've given in 5 or 6 stars.It's not an 'excellent' movie, I admit. But it's watchable and it's far from 'complete crap'. The premise is intriguing, but, sadly, the execution ruined it for me. The script was also not very good. Surprisingly enough, even the acting was mediocre -- they have top-rate actors playing leads, but the scrip and direction is so bad, that even these great actors couldn't save the movie.It's an O.K. film, but nothing spectacular. There's very little suspense and the alien robots are a bit lame (that cringeworthy main frame voice... oh, the horror!).They could've found a much better use for the captain, but as soon as the fun begins (he volunteers to be turned into one of 'them'), the good guys blow him away within the very first minute! What the...? I did like the fact that the movie wasn't cheesy -- there weren't any wacky romantic scenes and the clichés were kept to a minimum. The explosions were also quite good, and I liked the look of the deserted ship -- quite atmospheric.Like I said, it's not a masterpiece, but I've seen much worse.