'Killer Buzz'? I wish. You can't blame me for trying. I must've downed 16-17 beers attempting to get through this movie. And all that got me was a "killer" hangover and deeper depression from having spent more time on this crud than the length of the preview. I've read this was originally called (much more appropriately) 'Flying Virus' as the advertised bees (hence the title & cover) share approximately 15 minutes screen time out of an exhausting 95 minutes. I love "When Animals Attack" films, even bad ones, but this is a cheap Rambo-less low-budget jungle action movie. At least half of it is. The other half should've been called 'Airplane III in 3-B.' When I was young, I might as well admit I was infatuated with Gabrielle Anwar (including her wonderful Tango scene in 'Scent of a Woman') and I thought Craig Sheffer might go someplace outside 'Some Kind of Wonderful.' (Rutger Hauer has no excuse – he would've ended up in the same Mickey Rourke retirement home had it not been for 'The Wrestler.') Unfortunately, they ended up in this cheap Sci-Fi reject, which spent some of its $50 budget on explosions and stuntmen jumping all over the place and less on a wire-held plane. I was hoping the mostly absent bees to reach civilization sometime. They almost do – they all buy coach seats and terrorize Sheffer and nobodies on a plane making 'Snakes on a Plane' look like a masterpiece. The other half involves – get this for being original – corporate greed & using mutated bees to get oil. Some people watch b-movies for a good laugh. I promise you two, but unfortunately, you'll have to wait until the closing. #1 Sheffer's rope act and #2 the line "let's get out of here." Where were they going? Hilarious.

This is without a doubt the worst movie I have ever seen outside MST3K. In fact, it would have been a perfect candidate for Mike and bots to snark on, and I can only hope that the Film Crew might discover it one day and give it the appropriate treatment. The writing is terrible, and the film doesn't even TRY to make any of the characters likable. From sullen, duck-billed Gabrielle Anwar to scruffy, chip-on-the-shoulder Craig Sheffer, to Rutger Hauer, who looks astonishingly like Michael Moore in this film, there is not one character I wouldn't be happy to see stung to death by killer bees. Ann Bauer is supposed to be a sexy reporter who has men falling like ninepins everywhere she goes, but she absolutely no chemistry with anyone in the movie, neither her loathsome soon-to-be ex-husband or the laughable Lothario, Scotty. Anwar mutters her dialog half the time, and Sheffer seems to think that grumbling sarcasm denotes strong masculinity.These two characters are supplemented by Hauer's Ezekiel, some nutcase American commando who lurches about waving a pistol in one hand and a little black book in the other. One guess what THAT is supposed to be, and I don't think it's the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice. There is also a U.S. State Department official named Scotty, who mysteriously seems to be running the entire Brazilian Amazon, with just one office and no secretary. According to this movie, Brazil has no real government, because Americans have moved in to eradicate native tribes, carpet-bomb nice upper-middle class towns, set up military no-go areas and take home all the oil. I'm guessing they picked on the State Department to run this operation, because trying to pin it to the better-known CIA and Department of Defense would have been too unbelievable.This movie gives the term "ugly American" a whole new level of meaning. The must insulting suggestion is that American soldiers don't seem to know how to shoot when confronted by loincloth-wearing bushmen armed with spears and bows and arrows. Wave after wave of machinegun-toting American commandos are mowed down by flying spears and flaming arrows before they can manage to get off a single shot. Of course, they obligingly stand upright and go running across clearings even though they are surrounded on all sides by bushes and buildings, so it makes it a bit easier for the natives to take aim. And boy, can they aim! Every dart kills a soldier, and every flaming arrow hits a can of gasoline, causing an explosion which kills a few more Americans. I guess in basic training, these guys were told that if their clothes catch fire, they should go flailing across country, until they find another barrel of gasoline to catch hold of for support. It's like watching 4 Denethors charging across the screen. "Oil" seems to be the magic word here, which smooths away inconvenient facts and excuses the most ludicrous plot device, in this case, killer bees that will ethnically cleanse the Amazon of inconvenient natives so Americans can systematically rape the land. Actually, I think the writers deserve an award for their restraint: they managed to get through the entire movie without once using the word "Bush".The movie also uses a hoary old cliché, which is that natives are well-meaning but disorganized. They need a white man to turn them into a potent force, and this shows up in the shape of the mysterious leader of the 'Shadow People', an American doctor named (I kid you not) 'Savior' (Duncan Regehr), who righteously lectures Ann on America's polluting ways, citing this as "one small example of your government's policy of sacrificing the environment for corporate greed." Half the idiocy takes place on the ground, and the other in the air on a bee-infested passenger jet where Ann's husband Martin gets to prove what a hero he is. He is accompanied by Easily-Led Captain ("You're in charge out there"), Feisty Black Stewardess, Nerdy Kid, Surfer Babe and Bill Maher Wannabe. Everyone else is just ethnically diverse background chorus.

I had a feeling this would be a fine movie the moment I saw the ad on TV announcing Rutger as a part of it. And my feelings were confirmed when I watched it... is this movie hilarious or what?I've seen praticlly only two types of comments at IMDb about Flying Virus. Let's analyze them.The first kind of comments are those cursing this movie, calling it a piece of sh17, but come on people, what did you expect from a movie called Flying Virus, that takes place in Brasil, and all those amazing stuff you have read from the plot... were you expecting a masterpiece? Only if you guys are insane! Now, the second kind of comments are those that found this movie very fun, entertaining, hilarious, those are the smart ones! It has great lines, excellent pictures, fine actors, what else do you want? And there is one important detail, if you know Portuguese, I suggest you watch it with the Portuguese audio instead of the original, you won't stop laughing!Hum... I have to finish this comment with a question: have you watched Killer Bees! ? That was hilarious too!

If ever a film deserved "WTF?" It's this one. But hey they all had such FUN making it.This is not a movie to be reviewed subjectively. You couldn't even call it a movie, but you know what? I enjoyed the whole damn thing. From probably the worst plane fx ever put up on screen, to the shoddy "lets blow it up then show it again from another angle" cinematography.. right the way though to Rutger Hauer's comical turn as the "wannabe baddest z-grade terrorist" ever unleashed on an unsuspecting bunch of refugees from the ANACONDA film set. The "Shadow People?????" heheheh! My only question is how did they ever get these actors to keep a straight face when delivering their lines.Sheffer....who cut his teeth on zilch-grade flicks (TURBULENCE 3 springs to mind) excels himself here in his pursuit of Miss Anwar while endeavoring to prevent the "killer bees" (Irwin Allen sold them what he had left over from THE SWARM) from infiltrating the first-class cabin of the hitherto unknown Boeing design we see here.It is the very comical ineptitude of everyone from the Director to the tea lady that makes this the crap classic it is. Where else you gonna see killer bees massing for attack in the toilet bowl? scores of trained and fully armed commandos unable to bring down a bunch of natives with spears? A 737 perform a 180 degree U-turn in less than 5 seconds? some teenage d***wad re-program a heat seeking missile with his lap-top? ONLY here my friends! Pay homage where its due. THIS is the cruddiest and most entertaining piece of unoriginal if not downright hysterical cinematic flotsam ever to grace your local bargain-bin. Grab it while it's hot!