NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

SnoopyStyle A satellite crashes in southern Utah. A teenage couple finds it and brings it into the town of Piedmont. A military retrieval team tracks it to the town and finds the population dead. They are also taken quickly by the contagion. General Mancheck (Andre Braugher) activates the Wildfire Alert. Dr. Jeremy Stone (Benjamin Bratt), Dr. Angela Noyce (Christa Miller), Major Bill Keane MD (Ricky Schroder), Dr. Tsi Chou (Daniel Dae Kim), and Dr. Charlene Barton (Viola Davis) are retrieved to investigate the outbreak. The victims' blood get clotted or they commit outlandish suicides. A man and a baby are the sole survivors. They are brought back to the Wildfire Lab. Reporter Jack Nash (Eric McCormack) gets a tip about the incident and leaves rehab. Project Scoop to collect samples from a wormhole is headed by Mancheck unbeknownst to President Scott who proposes underwater mining which could wipe out an unique environment.This stretches the two hour 1971 movie into a 4-part three hour mini-series. The 1971 movie is already extended. This one adds on a lot of stuff including The Happening. It also suffers from complicated scientific talk just like the original movie. It does have enough flash to keep it energized but it's not an improvement. Overall, it's watchable TV fare that leaves one in an empty Buckyball.

catey920 This mini series lost my attention when the self righteous reporter kills a few of our soldiers. No way are you convincing me this ass is some kind of hero of free speech. He is still has to obey the law, and by trespassing on a military base and entering a quarantine area, he violated national security. Some hot shots think they're above the law. All his action would do is cause a panic and inhibit the response time. In the filmmakers intent to be political correct, they come across as pandering. No one wants to be preached to. Medically, since when does a bleed in the brain make people act crazy? In reality it would incapacitate them as the brain is deprived of oxygen.

johnslegers In spite of some minor flaws and differences from the original 1971 film, the first half of "The Andromeda Strain" was pretty decent. It wasn't anything too special, but it came off as a fairly interesting and well-executed bio-tech thriller to me.Unfortunately, all that fell apart during the second half. The most absurd plot holes or just plain absurdities followed one another at an increasing pace, which totally ruined the atmosphere built up during the first half. What started out as a fairly interesting film ended in a disaster.Adding to this, the annoying environmentalist, anti-corporate and anti-"military-industrial complex" message that's added to the story is very naive (almost childish) and doesn't mix well with the rest of the plot. It reminds me of "On Deadly Ground", where Steven Seagal takes a perfectly valid environmentalist message and turns it into an atrocious action film. Considering I actually agree with the idea that we must be aware of greedy corporations, corrupt politicians and the fragility of our environment, it really bothers me when Hollywood does such a bad job conveying that message.

skyking-14 This version is OK, but it took them four hours to laboriously tell a story that the original told better in half the time! The casting of the original is better, the plot line was tighter and it was played with the urgency of a real-time event. This version totally fails to present the same level of immediacy.This version is too full of buzz words, contrived plots and overworked conspiracy theory. The original Star Wars was better than any of the sequels because it presented something entirely new... similarly, the original Andromeda Strain was memorable because it was fresh and new. Hollywood has sunk to doing too many remakes because they lack the imaginative minds and bold creativity to do anything new!