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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 12 March, 1971 DVD Release : 01 April, 2003 |
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The Andromeda Strain description The best-selling novel by Michael Crichton was faithfully adapted for this taut 1971 thriller, about a team of scientists racing against time to destroy a deadly alien virus that threatens to wipe out life on Earth. As usual with any Crichton-based movie, the emphasis is on an exciting clash between nature and science, beginning when virologists discover the outer-space virus in a tiny town full of corpses. Projecting total contamination, the scientists isolate the deadly strain in a massive, high-tech underground lab facility, which is rigged for nuclear destruction if the virus is not successfully controlled. The movie spends a great deal of time covering the scientific procedures of the high-pressure investigation, and the rising tensions between scientists who have been forced to work in claustrophobic conditions. It's all very fascinating if you're interested in scientific method and technological advances, although the film is obviously dated in many of its details. It's more effective as a thriller in which tension is derived not only from the deadly threat of the virus, but from the escalating fear and anxiety among the small group of people who've been assigned to save the human race. The basic premise is still captivating; it's easy to see how this became the foundation of Crichton's science-thriller empire. --Jeff Shannon |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | first rate scifi: mystery, danger, politics, and accurate science |
| I have not seen this in 35 years, and I must say that it is still a wonderfully rivetting story full of surprises, good characters, and all the virtues of hard scifi. You can believe it, it gets you to think, and is fun to watch.
The thriller aspect - a near-whole town dead - is foremost as experts race against time to halt a contagion of a deadly and mysterious new life form. This is great fun as the mystery is explored and ne dangers discovered. There is a wonderful inquiry into the nature of life and what extra-terrrestial forms may take, including danger to earth-spawned forms. The scientitst characters transmit their fascination and passion with great success. Finally, there is also an ethical and political dimension to it, as the scientists wonder as to the purpose of the secret facility - for germ warfare scenarios? - and whether the organism was sought as a weapon for development. These questions are left unresolved. That makes the film truly first rate. Warmly recommended. It was as interesting and dense as the first time I saw, as a high school freshman. |
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