How on Earth do I go about reviewing VIRUS ? I thought perhaps I might use some copy and paste reviews of DEEP RISING , THE X FILES and ALIENS but according to IMDb guidelines this isn't allowed so perhaps someone can tell me how screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer got away by stealing other peoples' plots ?
It's the screenplay that's to blame . Didn't the producers notice that this plot has been done to death ? It's amazing how anyone could get away with this at a film pitch and VIRUS remains one of the most unoriginal movies I've seen in a long time which makes for a very predictable and unentertaining film . You know what's going to happen on screen a good few minutes before the wafer thin characters do which means the audience doesn't care about the people or situations
The directing isn't much better sadly and right from the very opening sequence we're treated to a ridiculous scene where the characters speak in Russian . Considering the characters are Russian this isn't bizarre in itself but what makes it incredibly weird is that subtitles appear when people mention characters names or give chess moves - Subtitles don't appear elsewhere in the dialogue meaning we don't have a clue what the connection between the ship and the space capsule is ! Wouldn't it just have been easier to have them talk in English with Russian accents ? It might not be logical but considering there's no logic to this film it would have been consistent which is more than can be said for the accents in this unentertaining dumb movie
It's the screenplay that's to blame . Didn't the producers notice that this plot has been done to death ? It's amazing how anyone could get away with this at a film pitch and VIRUS remains one of the most unoriginal movies I've seen in a long time which makes for a very predictable and unentertaining film . You know what's going to happen on screen a good few minutes before the wafer thin characters do which means the audience doesn't care about the people or situations
The directing isn't much better sadly and right from the very opening sequence we're treated to a ridiculous scene where the characters speak in Russian . Considering the characters are Russian this isn't bizarre in itself but what makes it incredibly weird is that subtitles appear when people mention characters names or give chess moves - Subtitles don't appear elsewhere in the dialogue meaning we don't have a clue what the connection between the ship and the space capsule is ! Wouldn't it just have been easier to have them talk in English with Russian accents ? It might not be logical but considering there's no logic to this film it would have been consistent which is more than can be said for the accents in this unentertaining dumb movie