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Outbreak Reviews
Petersen pulls off the thrills at a stomach lurching pace, and with its requisite Hollywood ham...
| Original Score: 4/5 | 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
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
The irony is that Outbreak, for all its lurid finesse, ends up leaving us more dazed than terrified.
| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011
While the first one is considerably more frightening and plausible than the second, the entire film has been put together with such skill and attention to viewer excitement that audiences will readily swallow the whole enchilada without a burp.
| Mar 26, 2009
Entertaining, but not fatally attractive.
| Jan 26, 2006
If a person spends enough time looking serious, sounding defiant and staring intently at computer screens, all will be well with the world.
| May 20, 2003
One of the perverse enjoyments of "Outbreak" is watching Hoffman, who is notorious for inhabiting characters bollixed by the blips of indecision, playing a no-nonsense action hero.
| Feb 13, 2001
Displays all the initial symptoms of a promising thriller, it soon degenerates into a low-fever whodunit.
| Jan 1, 2000
By the time the obligatory happy ending comes along after heroic (and unbelievable) acts of courage save the day, you'll probably wish that movies could be vaccinated, so that they don't succumb to the type of stupid notions that infect Outbreak.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000
This is a picture good enough to make you want to go to the movies and frightening enough to make you wonder if you should avoid the crowds.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Comes off as a shrill, self-important bore.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
Hoffman doesn't get the chance, or need, to act: he just does things, like Ford.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
One of the great scare stories of our time.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000
An absolute hoot.
| Jan 1, 2000
A big, bustling, intermittently dippy melodrama.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
Outbreak is pretty strong stuff.
| Original Score: B | Jun 1, 1994