Watched: 01/16/2025
Format: Amazon
Viewing: First
Director John Bruno
A while back, I read that Signal Watch fave Jamie Lee Curtis has at least one movie she made which she'll publicly drag. Which made me curious. And that movie was Virus (1999), a sci-fi schlock-fest.
Having just sat through the hour and forty minutes of Virus, I am in agreement with JLC. This movie is very, very not good.
It's an alien-invasion film on (a boat!) where it feels like the movie is just abusing your willing suspension of disbelief while delivering scenes and sequences from other movies you've seen before and is daring you to keep watching.
Our plot: a wave of candy-colored cosmic energy passes through the Mir Space Station, which, in turn, shoots a beam of candy-colored energy into a Russian science vessel. The beam blasts energy around the ship while the captain is alarmed it's accessing the mainframe (boy we were worried about mainframes still in 1999) and we cut to a standard, post-Abyss rag-tag working crew of a tug boat in a hurricane.
