Over 50 years later, The Andromeda Strain remains one of the best films in the killer virus genre in terms of accuracy and attention to detail.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 18, 2024

It remains well worth watching, but the magical 'classic' status afforded to Wise's other famous films is not quite earned.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 25, 2020

It is, in fact, quite a proficient example of the science fiction genre, though I can't help thinking that 130 minutes is too long for anything non-Kubrick.

| Jun 2, 2020

A real spellbinder.

| Jun 2, 2020

'70s book-based sci-fi classic has violence, peril.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2020

It all goes a bit sci-fi bonkers towards the end, with a high-tension countdown and green lasers blasting scientists who attempt to override a doomsday button. But, well, it is a movie after all. And an underrated classic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2020

With an incredible cast and a fine direction, The Andromeda Strain can serve up some great and tense discourse. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 16, 2020

A galactic virus served with intelligence. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 16, 2020

If hard science is your bag, go see it.

| Jan 11, 2020

Though it's essentially the godfather of the outbreak disaster genre, The Andromeda Strain is a slow sci-fi procedural that hasn't aged well.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 16, 2019

There's much to admire.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2019

the story is a fiction, but a fiction told with one eye on a realistic style of filmmaking (let's call it 'pathogen procedural'), and the other eye on the contemporary realities of both space travel and the Cold War...

| Jun 4, 2019

Does a great job of bottling up and then slowly releasing tension.

| May 30, 2019

Despite its trappings, the plot employs nothing but the conventional weaponry of the grade-B thriller.

| Feb 8, 2018

Gidding's script prioritises the scientific process over any kind of drama or character, and the bulk of the movie which details this process can seriously plod.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 14, 2017

Robert Wise's version of Chrihton's popular novel is a decent (but no more) film, with some good art design.

| Original Score: C+ | May 4, 2011

Disquieting

| Aug 28, 2009

Uma fico-cientfica inteligente, para adultos, que usa a "fico" como trampolim para sua fascinante "cincia". E a direo de arte um espetculo parte, mesmo que datada.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 15, 2008

Robert Wise brings his Academy Award-winning sobriety and meticulousness to a pulp tale that cries out for the slapdash vigor of a Roger Corman.

| Nov 5, 2008

An intriguing, suspenseful story is somewhat hampered by a dull cast. The last sequence will have you on the edge of your seat.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 5, 2008