Appreciators of horror and sci-fi pulp, however, can still admire the loud and flashy delivery, the array of special effects, and perhaps most of all, unique creature designs that have only gotten creepier with time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2025

It's no classic, but it's a fun little science-fiction horror film with creative creature effects and several noteworthy ideas - despite all the monster movie clichés.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 25, 2020

It blew my mind to see some of the actors I love become these mechanical warriors who turn on their own friends. This is one of many reasons you should watch Virus. It's exhilarating. It's fun.

| Sep 7, 2018

"This is very stoopeed, Stevie." I must have repeated that line to myself a dozen times before this abysmal techno-thriller shuddered to a much-appreciated end.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2014

The conclusion is so rushed it almost functions as parody. But the biggest impression the movie leaves is that William "Kangaroo Head" Baldwin makes lots of unintentionally goofy faces.

| Apr 25, 2012

The next worse thing to getting a virus is to catch this bacteria friendly film.

| Original Score: C | Aug 12, 2010

Virus makes another loud and colourful case for the special-effects epidemic.

| Jul 6, 2010

Your average winter cold follows a less predictable course.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 6, 2010

Until the diverting special effects take center stage, this story, about an alien intelligence that builds an army out of flesh and metal, pathetically exploits genre conventions without generating self-reference, camp, or thrills.

| Apr 25, 2007

A derivative sci-fi shocker that isn't likely to spark much interest beyond its target audience of undemanding genre fans.

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Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 30, 2006

While he can fling together a competent action or special effects sequence, his handling of the plot and actors is strictly routine.

| Jun 24, 2006

a respectable little thriller that packs a couple of genuine jolts and gallon upon gallon of gore into a goofy, sometimes suspenseful yarn.

| Jul 3, 2003

No one in the right mind would call this a good film, or even a decent one, but thankfully, rookie feature director John Bruno's romp is not a complete waste of celluloid.

| Original Score: C | May 22, 2003

Frankly, about 20 minutes into this dud, I was rooting for the alien beasties.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Even Donald Sutherland in the potentially juicy role as a self-serving old sea dog, is wasted in this big budget ill.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Monster movie is a monstrous failure.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 7, 2002

When the automated robotic lab starts using dead bodies as biological material to create killing machines programmed to believe man is harmful and must be destroyed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2002

bathed in an incessant gloom that makes it look like one of the comic book artists who inspired this sci-fi/horror hybrid spilled his ink blotter on the film's negatives

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 27, 2001

An unpretentious, amusing thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror thriller / monster movie that plugs right into fears of a Y2K crisis.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2001