Outbreak
1995 Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Synopsis
This animal carries a deadly virus... and the greatest medical crisis in the world is about to happen.
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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Have not seen this since its original cinema release...had fond memories of it too.
Obviously I have early onset dementia as it is absolutely terrible!!
The performances are truly abysmal...every actor is either chewing through chunk after chunk of scenery or reading their lines like they are in CAPITALS ON A CUE CARD! Dustin Hoffman actually shakes his fist at people on several occasions! He is only out hammed by the Doctor at the first outbreak hospital...its like a parody it's so bad!
The effects have aged terribly, especially obvious on a bluray and it goes on for close to 18 hours. At least it seems like it does.
The star is purely because I like the the whole concept of these virus movies and because it has several monkeys in it.
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The only thing that breaks out here is the ham!
The premise is still as scary though, in the main thanks to the media hype surrounding H5N1, swine `flu, SARS and other nasties in recent years, you're left with a distinct feeling this isn't too far away from reality.
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Basically Dante's Peak but with a virus instead of a volcano, Outbreak has a decent first half then completely falls apart after that. None of the performances are very good and the dialogue is absolutely horrible, I'm talking more terrible than terrible. The movie turns into a total Wolfgang Peterson wank fest as well once the story gets to the town. I'm talking tons of gratuitous helicopter shots, and he even shoes in a ship scene late in the film.
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It has been a long time ago since I last saw this star-packed movie. A movie with Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Cuba Gooding jr, Donald Sutherland and Kevin Spacey creates high expectations.
The first part of the movie is strong and I especially liked the opening in the mercenary camp in Zaire. Another strong scene was the scene in the cinema when one of the infected persons started coughing and you could follow how the virus was spread around to all the other visitors.
The second part of the movie is less strong as it leans to much on the well known Hollywood formula of ' a single man saving the universe' and somehow my attention was drifting away.
Still all in all a decent 1990's action thriller.
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Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman are outacted by a monkey.
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It's been quite a long time since I watched this, I would guess about 10 years. I definitely remember liking it back in the day and the story was one of the things that stood out in my memory as being pretty cool. Watching it again, I completely forgot about the pretty big cast it had, and that it had some not great performances in it too.
Now I'm being serious when I say that the cast is big, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Patrick Dempsey. That cast must have cost a pretty big penny, but apparently they were told to overact like crazy. Hoffman is the biggest offender of this…
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The 'B'-est of B-movies. Quite a lot of camp fun to be had watching Spacey, Russo, Dustbin et al. clearly taking the piss, but dragging it out wasn't a great idea - should have ended when they tranqed the little blighter who caused the whole mess.
Looking forward to seeing Marcel again in Outbreak 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan.
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Brilliant cast, interesting enough concept, but...a complete failure. Somehow I hope this entire film was a kind of elaborate joke. Literally every actor (including most of the extras, even those who only get to speak 2 words) are fucking up the delivery, on purpose.
Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Hoffman, etc. all fuck up their lines. They are great actors and I am certain that they're doing it deliberately. They clearly hate the (ridiculous) script, so why did they accept the part in the first place? The film didn't even have a gigantic budget...why did they agree to it?
Yet the clearly fuck up the lines. Deliberately. The poor director probably did 30 takes on every scene yet they…
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Never before has one tiny cutesy monkey seemed so terrifying...
Watching this was like seeing The Stand in cinematic form - a virus is concealed for military reasons but then - surprise! - it gets out and starts infecting and killing off americans, er, civilians at a terrifying rate in this tense and at times upsetting thriller.
Hoffman and Freeman are excellent as you'd expect, and Russo and Spacey are also great, if underused, but the character I really liked was Salt as he develops from raw recruit to hero of the hour.
And it's got a chilling baddie you'll really want to hiss.
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Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman are outacted by a monkey.
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It's been quite a long time since I watched this, I would guess about 10 years. I definitely remember liking it back in the day and the story was one of the things that stood out in my memory as being pretty cool. Watching it again, I completely forgot about the pretty big cast it had, and that it had some not great performances in it too.
Now I'm being serious when I say that the cast is big, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Patrick Dempsey. That cast must have cost a pretty big penny, but apparently they were told to overact like crazy. Hoffman is the biggest offender of this…
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Some of Hollywood's best in one of Hollywood's worst. And a monkey.
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Fine film with a star studded cast stolen by Donald Sutherland as Major General McClintock
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It has been a long time ago since I last saw this star-packed movie. A movie with Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Cuba Gooding jr, Donald Sutherland and Kevin Spacey creates high expectations.
The first part of the movie is strong and I especially liked the opening in the mercenary camp in Zaire. Another strong scene was the scene in the cinema when one of the infected persons started coughing and you could follow how the virus was spread around to all the other visitors.
The second part of the movie is less strong as it leans to much on the well known Hollywood formula of ' a single man saving the universe' and somehow my attention was drifting away.
Still all in all a decent 1990's action thriller.
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The only thing that breaks out here is the ham!
The premise is still as scary though, in the main thanks to the media hype surrounding H5N1, swine `flu, SARS and other nasties in recent years, you're left with a distinct feeling this isn't too far away from reality.