Maybe not my favorite Petersen film, but it’s pretty compelling when it’s showing the horrors of contagion and how futile we are to nature.

| Jun 25, 2022

As an action outing, Outbreak is painless fun, designed to provide a quick rush rather than set off any kind of alarm.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 1, 2022

The whole movie is so intensely melodramatic and unbelievable...

| Nov 17, 2020

Don't expect any mercy from the people who made "Outbreak," a smashingly first-rate thriller that will do more to rev your pulse rate than a week of aerobics classes.

| Jun 20, 2020

The first hour was intriguing, but it is gross and nasty...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2020

Regardless of how ridiculous this movie was, it's extremely entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2020

'90s medical disaster movie has violence, peril, language.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2020

It may all be a tad hammy... but the fear is palpable. Fear the sneeze.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 18, 2020

It mixes spectacular action, high-flying intrigue and even terror in an apparent but banal pastiche that, to top it all, tries to transcend its premises. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2020

You could read this as an Aids allegory, but it also works well as a regular against-the-clock jeopardy thriller with conspiracy cover-up overtones.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2020

Outbreak isn't a perfect movie, but it is the perfect movie to talk about the way pop culture portrays viruses...

| Mar 16, 2020

Petersen pulls off the thrills at a stomach lurching pace, and with its requisite Hollywood ham...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2020

It's a weird kind of comfort food: as bad as it seems for us, at least it's not as bad as what's in the movies.

| Mar 16, 2020

Petersen's vigilant, enlivening direction never allows the story's death-of-mankind topic to undermine its personal powers, deftly mixing in humor, as well as other tonal lighteners, to nurture it.

| Mar 11, 2020

The film is less effective, unfortunately, at trusting its audience to remain invested in Cedar Creek's drama, which results in two grating subplots that become the A-plot in the draggy third act.

| Mar 8, 2020

Outbreak isn't a terrible film, but it doesn't trust that relative realism has enough power to hook and hold a movie audience.

| Mar 7, 2020

Outbreak will keep you on the edge of your scat, and every time someone sneezes or coughs in the audience, you'll pay attention.

| Feb 20, 2020

A solid '90s thriller...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2020

Much too enamored by its Hollywood trappings to deliver a genuine story about humanity...

| Nov 19, 2012

Too bad that the narrative is such a conventional melodrama in depicting the fight of the little man...

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 24, 2012