Review of Virus

Virus (1980)
4/10
Doomsday like Strangelove
9 July 2019
I suppose it is proper for the Japanese to make a film about a post apocalyptic world in which folks who were enemies had better learn to just get along. But it shouldn't have been such a shoddy one.

A number of occidental players were part of this project as well. A worldwide virus is out of control and decimating countries. Only at the South pole where a number of countries have scientific stations seems safe because the virus doesn't survive below the freezing mark.

But if that isn't enough a doomsday device that the USA and the Soviet Union threatens to go off. Just like Dr. Strangelove, that's got to be stopped.

A few familiar faces, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Glenn Ford as the President of the USA and Chuck Connors most ludicrously cast as a British submarine commander. Connors doesn't even attempt an accent. It looks out of place and ridiculous.

Sincere story, horribly executed.
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