OK This might not be the worlds greatest sci-fi horror film but it's crazy fun to watch! It's far-fetched, full of special effects, an interesting enough story and a great cast that takes their characters to the edge -- I found the film quite entertaining! Donald Sutherland plays the crazy Captain Robert Everton. Everton is a captain of boat full of people helping him to bring in something on a barge (they never said what it was) - anyway the boat gets a hole in it during a typhoon, they drive to the eye of the storm for some calm and happen upon a huge Russian ship! The ship seems to be a derelict, they hop aboard and the Captain gets the crazy idea he can haul it in and make money off the ship. Much to surprise to the Captain and his crew there is a Russian scientist on board, Nadia, who shoots at them first but they become allies with her once they realize Nadia is telling the truth - an alien life-form, an intelligent energy of sorts, that is on-board trying to to take literal shape by combining man and machine together to survive. It wants and needs the Captain and his crew to create itself in many forms. What's worse the alien thinks mankind is nothing more than a virus!! Really fun movie - Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin and all the rest of the actors are great in this - the entire cast are the one's that really *made this film* so enjoyable for viewing! 7/10

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

No wonder Jamie lee Curtis stated that this movie was the worst in her entire career. Its alright all in all but the focus of the movie is on a Russian science ship that is found by Donald Sutherlands crew. The Ship is alive and thinks the Crew is a virus. OK no problem right? seems not to bad. Until you start to watch it, the characters seem rather odd and somewhat hard to take seriously, Donald Sutherland sounds strange at times as if hes trying to do an accent every so often but never pans out what kind of accent he was trying to achieve. Every character is very bland and you find it hard to focus on the happenings around them, cliché lines and cheesy robotic bad guys. Humans turned into robots just seem strange rather than scary, they are supposed to be threatening i guess to the crew but they always manage to get their butts kicked quickly, so much for the robot humans. Sometimes there is moments that don't make sense. At the start of the film when first finding the science ship they make note there is no weapons on board. But throughout the movie we find machine guns, a Missile room?, and various other weapons throughout the ship. The movie is a B rated movie at best but to be fair to B rated movies this is actually not even that good. Id pass up this movie if I were you but its your choice if you really like bad flicks.

Virus is based on a Dark Horse comic book. It has a lot of behind the scenes talent such as Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator/Aliens), director John Bruno is an Oscar winner for visual effects for The Abyss and also did the VFX for Terminator 2, Titanic amongst other films.It is no surprise then that the film rips off many of these films in the genre especially as it becomes Aliens meets Robocop meets Terminator as an electrical based alien life form that views humans as a virus, only useful as spare parts and slowly converts the humans into cyborgs.The film starts off in a Russian space station before setting in a Russian ship. Our heroine is Jamie Lee Curtis a navigator in a tugboat with uninsured cargo destroyed in a typhoon. The salty captain of the ship, is mean, a drunkard and on the verge of catastrophic failure. He is played by Donald Sutherland. They stumble on the now abandoned Russian ship and want to take it as valuable salvage before they realise something else is also aboard.Lee Curtis shows a lot of spirit, she is assisted by a bland William Baldwin. Sutherland is the hissable villain, a mixture of Captain Hook and Quint from Jaws. The special effects are very good but the script is a let down and the film comes across as dull.