Virus
USA 1999. Director: John Bruno
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland

You almost want to forgive Jamie Lee Curtis for the worst of her career moves in the '90s (i.e True Lies) as she did her best to make up for it by returning the horror genre in which she became famous. She was awesome (the only thing so) in Halloween H20, and here she's at it again. Unfortunately it's not a very good role. Based upon the Dark Horse comic book and produced with German and Japanese money, this is just what it sounds like. A computer virus has taken over a ship full of machines and started to developing new machines and new robots in order to kill all man. Jamie Lee and her fellow sailors arrives to save the world as we know it. It's often brilliantly photographed and fast paced but equally often routinely directed. It's also annoyingly empty on character and logic. People die horrible to left and right but it's hard to care about them because the high-tech robots have way more personality. On the other hand it's always nice to see Joanna Pacula. And Donald Sutherland, with silly accent and beard, really go for broke, mutating into half robot/half man. Must be seen to be believed. Virus may be a bad movie, but as bad movies go, it's not all bad, though, and you should thank only Donald Sutherland for that.