Virus (1999)
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A Russian Space Station has been hit by a extra-terrestrial entity which has sent itself though satellites and onto a Russian battleship. But Captain Everton's crew of scavengers isn't impressed by scary stories and once they find
the nearly deserted battleship they claim ownership (and safety, as their own ship has sunk). But a Russian sailor has survived and pleads with her new
shipmates to abandon ship and bail but they don't listen. By powering the ship up, they awaken the electrical beast inside which thinks humans are the virus and has it's own sort of extermination policies!
Overall: The film fails with what becomes a common theme in the "Sinning Room" - bad timing. The film debuted after "Deep Rising" and essentially copied the idea: bunch of salvagers find an abandoned ship, meet up with a monster and must destroy the ship and the being before they die. They differ in the type of monster but a few months between release dates didn't help this despite the cast: Donald Sutherland, Jamie Lee Curtis and William Baldwin. Both films tend to just provide solutions to the famous 1800's Marie Celeste mystery where a ship washed shore with no crew and no clue as to what happened. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle provided one option but to this day the truth remains a mystery. The film has great effects but there is so much in-fighting amongst the crew it borders more on "Blair Witch Project" than anything. Comparison: Deep Rising meets Star Trek |
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