Name  Rating Virus 3/10

    Everything is peachy keen in the Pacific as a bunch of Russians play chess with their comrades on Mir; until suddenly a transmission, that you can see, hits the spacestation and causes it to send a powerful signal to the advanced research boat. Somehow the signal is really some alien, and it causes the ship to kill all the crew and build robots and hang wires all over the place blah blah blah blah...

    If you haven't already figured out, I didn't like this movie, and giving it a 3 was very generous. About the only character I liked was the captain played by Donald Sutherland, and he is basically a badguy and get killed; but he did a good job acting, and I found his character believable. That's what earns this movie the only three points it gets. See, star power does pay off; but Hollywood already knew that. Anyway, the big surprise is that the aliens isn't the virus, MAN IS! Wow! I didn't see that coming! What an original twist! One other plus for the movie is that it did give a reasonable reason for them to be trucking around on some ghost ship in the middle of a hurricane - money. Always a good motivater; although the sinking of their tugboat was a little overkill. If you don't have cable, don't have a VCR, don't have a book, then you might find this a descent way to pass two hours; but if you take into consideration the cost of the movie (I went to a matinee, so it was four bucks), you're in a loose scenario. In other words, recommend this to people you don't like.