People are voting emotionally.

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I only write reviews of movies with low rating, which actually are not that bad. Give them a chance!I watched this film because I love movies about apocalypse. Some say that Virus is not for that group, but I disagree. If a virus kills humans for ''spare parts'' and wants to go to Lord Howe Island, so it could spread all over Earth - that could cause an apocalypse!Now when we got that cleared, I must admit that this movie deserves better rating then it has at this moment ( 4.8 ). It really is not that bad! Great story, great mechanical costumes, good set decoration. Acting is bad for some actors, especially Donald... I don't understand his acting in this movie, he is always great ( Land Of The Blind for example ), but here... Directing is also not at the top level, the ending is really bad and it looks like they could not wait to finish editing. But still, those two facts are not something that should give this movie such a low rating.You can enjoy this movie for sure, it is watchable and enjoyable.6/10

Decent sci-fi horror/thriller. OK, it's not exceptional in any way but it's also not the steaming pile of poo that its rating here would suggest. I was expecting it to be a real stinker judging by some of the reviews I've read. On the contrary, it was a perfectly watchable movie of its type. Entertaining to a small degree but never dull. The cast isn't bad. Jamie Lee Curtis is the best of the lot. Donald Sutherland hams it up some with a silly Lucky Charms accent. I ask you though -- in what way is that not fun? Maybe people hate it because it has a "dumb action movie" quality about it. Sci-fi fans can be a prickly sort sometimes.

I'll admit, I was very skeptical when I started this movie and then realized how poorly overall it had done. I was surprised to find that it really wasn't that bad. It definitely wasn't the worst movie I had ever seen, not even close. The movie was genuinely creepy. The only thing that prevented my complete satisfaction was how stupid the premise was. But once you got past that, it was kind of enjoyable. The animation was actually good, and it wasn't clear to me if any one of the crew members would get off the ship. Normally it's easy to see the 'hero of the movie', that appears to be unstoppable in their success. No such limitations in this movie.Overall, an enjoyable movie that should have done much better than it did.

I wouldn't delete "Virus" off your list just yet..."Virus" is not a film that you go into expecting good performances or even mild shocks (even though it does have a few). The film is from producer Gale Anne Hurd ("Aliens"), which explains some otherwise exceptional special effects midst a tedious plot that rips off "Alien" (1979), "The Terminator" (1984), "Aliens" (1986), and many other science fiction blockbusters.The movie's message is also quite obvious from the outset: mankind sucks, mankind is a "virus" that needs to be exterminated, and the deadly electronic extraterrestrial entity that has arrived on Earth to kill us is the "cure." And such is this profane end-of-the-20th-century technophobic subtext that makes it only mildly scary and sets it apart from other similar-minded films. That also makes this "creature" somewhat unique amongst other movie monsters (more on this later).The film opens somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when a Russian research vessel is conducting a transmission with the Russian space station Mir. In the middle of the space transmission, Mir encounters the aforementioned malevolent electronic entity and it beams itself down to Earth on-board the Russian freighter, creating all sorts of havoc in the course of its arrival. Eight days later, the crew of the Sea Star discovers the freighter and unwisely decides to board it, hoping for a huge $300 million payday from the Russian government for the return of the salvaged vessel.The crew is led by the corrupt and deeply indebted Captain Robert Everton (Donald Sutherland), and his navigator and second-in-command Kit Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis). The rest of the Sea Star includes Steven Baker (William Baldwin), Woods (Marshall Bell), Richie (Sherman Augustus), Hiko (Cliff Curtis), and Squeaky (Julio Oscar Mechoso). They discover one survivor aboard the crippled Russian freighter, Nadya (Joanna Pacula), who also has an exceptionally firm grasp of the English language.Nadya at first seems crazed and strangely unconcerned for her own safety, except that the Sea Star crew turn off the power to the ship. She explains that the alien life-form that killed the Mir cosmonauts downloaded itself down to Earth on-board their freighter, disabling it in the process and taking over the ship's electrical systems (the alien life-form needs electrical power to function), and then began killing the Russian crew members and that soon the same thing could happen to them.The plot, based on co-screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer's Dark Horse comic book series of the same name from the early 1990s, is actually pretty interesting and cool-sounding; I might just try to track it down and read it myself to see if it's any better than the movie. The alien life-form that antagonizes the poor Sea Star crew members is also pretty unique and cool-sounding: the creature itself is a malevolent electronic entity from deep space with no physical form, but ends up having to give itself one from the "spare parts" made out of the ship's electrical systems and equipment, and human flesh (since it views humans as anti-thetical to its existence and "spare parts" are the only thing we're good for, apparently).It is clear that John Bruno's "Virus" is a paycheck sort of movie for its three otherwise bankable, big-name Hollywood stars (Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland). If it weren't for the big paycheck, I think they would have let it go to lesser-known "B"-movie actors. I also just mean to say that the movie is well-acted, for this sort of tedious monster movie production. You also really shouldn't knock the film's plot, since you know exactly where it's going to go before even watching this well-made, albeit quite shoddy, sci-fi/thriller.You should only watch "Virus" for its creature special effects and a few nice man-machine hybrids (that somehow or another remind you of the fearsome Borg from the "Star Trek" TV series and 1996's "Star Trek: First Contact"). Save it for a late-night-type of deal (or early-morning-type deal, like me).5/10