13 reviews
This is not only a budget production but a bad, bland and extremely predictable movie.
Deadly virus that comes out of some exotic corner of the World? Check.
Doctor who struggles between familiar drama and her call to save the World? Check.
Young enthusiastic but socially awkward doctor/scientist assistant? Check.
All of this comes with uni-dimensional characters, cliché attitudes you can predict after first 5 minutes, lousy soundtrack and just zero novelty or creativity. It is just a reshuffle of countless bio-hazard movies with nothing new and noteworthy.
Deadly virus that comes out of some exotic corner of the World? Check.
Doctor who struggles between familiar drama and her call to save the World? Check.
Young enthusiastic but socially awkward doctor/scientist assistant? Check.
All of this comes with uni-dimensional characters, cliché attitudes you can predict after first 5 minutes, lousy soundtrack and just zero novelty or creativity. It is just a reshuffle of countless bio-hazard movies with nothing new and noteworthy.
Exhausted doctor battles with cholera outbreak. Columbian drug smuggling is thrown in for added excitement. So what is missing from this Canadian production? If you are looking to be entertained, this film is not for you. If you are interested in public health problems and the way in which hospitals fight cholera epidemics then this film might prove informative. It's likely you'll cancel your plane flight in the near future. The film is more of an educational documentary. A little love interest is thrown in towards the end when the disease strikes the doctor's family and effectively reunites them after family problems. The film lacks any kind of relief from the constant admission of hospital patients and a frustrated doctor devoid of sleep. In a word, hospital procedures (stimulation of heart muscle with hypodermic needles and electric shock) are not the basis for a good night's entertainment.
- raymond-15
- Aug 30, 1999
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- rmax304823
- Mar 24, 2007
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- BandSAboutMovies
- May 23, 2020
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Must admit, one of the first in this screenplay's body count - the bearded drugs gang member - shouldn't have moved his eyelids when he was supposed to be dead but, then, these productions are expected to have reasonably competent directors.
But any TV movie with Lindsay is surely worth a look out of idle curiosity. Maybe she isn't the world's greatest actress and, doubtless, she could be more selective of material. I wouldn't mind having the opportunity to work with her.
But any TV movie with Lindsay is surely worth a look out of idle curiosity. Maybe she isn't the world's greatest actress and, doubtless, she could be more selective of material. I wouldn't mind having the opportunity to work with her.
- peterjamesyates
- Feb 9, 2002
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The movie is bad, but it has a special interest, as I suppose it presents all the films about the epidemics. Shrimps are unlikely to have triggered cholera but
you can never know... The acting in general is bad but Lindsay Wagner is doing a good job in the role of the doctor facing all those possible problems. I would have preferred that the film had treated exhaustively the subject of the epidemic, without introducing the annoying scenes with the family, the husband, the children, lost in that forest in the mountains. Also introducing the story with the drug dealers and the way the police act, it worsens everything, resulting in a kind of food that gives the viewer indigestion. One star for Lindsay Wagner.
- RodrigAndrisan
- Apr 17, 2020
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I disagree with most critics of this film. Is it Lawrence of Arabia? No. But it is well put together, if not original. Wagner is fine as a middle-aged professional. If the health and police were as efficient as they are portrayed in this film, we should be happy.
The movie never picked up momentum. Bad performance from most of the actors. Looked more like amateur theatre. And the music score in dramatic scenes for eg. while rescuing the girl from the woods was mundane. The film just lacks focus. Don't waste your time. I can't believe Paramount bought this movie.
I normally aspire to write reviews which are witty, thought-provoking, and provide true insight into a film's artistic merits. This made-for-TV movie, however, deserves no such effort. This is probably one of the worst TV moves - no make that movie in general - that I have ever seen. The acting is horrible (I have seen better performances in high school drama class productions), the plot is rambling and pointless, and even the cinematography is more soap-opera than any movie ever should be. Pure trash - avoid at all costs.
- MovieLuvr-1
- Mar 14, 2002
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These outbreak style movies have been done before but this one is quite good for TV. The way the disease spread is interesting and also the way they found the source. There is a drug thing going on for excitement and a rescue in the woods. Lindsay acts well.
Worth a watch.
Worth a watch.
- phd_travel
- Dec 27, 2019
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There is a drug dealer who has been exposed to cholera but he dies of an overdose. Anybody who takes the drug contaminated with cholera will contract it. Anybody who eats food that has been touched by them will contract it.
An epidemiologist has to deal with her own demons and deal with hundreds of patients in all the hospitals in the city in order to control the outbreak.
An epidemiologist has to deal with her own demons and deal with hundreds of patients in all the hospitals in the city in order to control the outbreak.
21 years ahead of its time .Ironically this firm is frighteningly like our Covid 19 situation today.
It's well made ,yet killing off the best actress on show in Kate Winslet, third of the way through.Was just folly
- ger55champ
- Jul 14, 2020
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This made for TV movie suffers in comparison to the tense and exciting 'Outbreak'. You can join the dots yourself as the story unfolds and it becomes a matter of waiting for the cast to jump through the hoops. There are no surprises. But there is Brendan Fletcher, who makes a silk purse from the sow's ear of a script. He is always worth watching.
- williamj-2
- Aug 9, 1999
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