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Outbreak

1995

Wolfgang Petersen

Dustin Hoffman, René Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey ...

5.7

15,559

Drama. Thriller. Action Colonel Sam Daniels, head of the US Army’s viral outbreak crisis centre USARMIID in Maryland, is sent to investigate an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Zaire. Daniels is then persuaded by his military superiors to regard the virus as non-lethal. However a monkey from Zaire is brought into the US aboard a Korean freighter and stolen by a quarantine employee. The monkey succeeds in infecting people and they in turn infect all those they ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The attempt to create a big, bold role for him [Hoffman] here is nothing if not blunt. (...) The film's shallowness also contributes to the impression that no problem is too thorny to be solved by movie heroics."
		Ian Nathan Empire	"Such a potent concept, star value and an utterly gripping first hour still make for a rollicking, nerve-rattling, hugely entertaining Hollywood shocker (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Made with intelligence and an appealing human dimension. (...) One of the great scare stories of our time (...) a clever, daunting thriller (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Displays all the initial symptoms of a promising thriller, it soon degenerates into a low-fever whodunit"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"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"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Though reasonably efficient on its own very simpleminded and cornball terms (...) [it] capriciously and irresponsibly converting certain aspects of the probable origins of AIDS (...) into an occasion for light entertainment"
		Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"This well-produced thriller will regenerate and thrive on the video circuit"

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