Voyage of Terror

I would agree with the UK person's comment. No, it's not a great movie but it was entertaining. Hey, anything that holds my interest while I'm on the treadmill is a good thing. No Martha pun intended. Besides it's another Martin Sheen, white house movie. Maybe he should think about politics for real.

This movie is not great, basically a TV movie version of the movie, "Outbreak". But what was fun about it, was spotting the "X-Files" actors that star in it. I stopped counting at six, but I think there was more. Hey, it'd make a fun drinking game...

It was a bit contrived but still not bad for a TV movie. These types of "canned script" movies usually drive me nuts -- too many characters making amazingly stupid decisions, at least one totally heartless idiot, at least two heart-wrenching side stories, one person you really know "must die", and of course technology failing just when it is most needed. And this movie definitely has it's fair share of all the above, but there was just barely enough "reality" to make it nominally believable. It's certainly entertaining enough to be a Saturday-popcorn-movie but I'm glad I didn't pay money to see it.

This movie is worth watching for no other reason than to see Martin Sheen playing a right-wing conservative wacko. And a mean-hearted, evil one to boot. Lindsay Wagner actually did pretty good portraying an infectious disease research doctor caught in the middle of a public crisis. And just like pretty much all TV movies, it has a satisfying ending -- the good guys win and the bad guys lose.

May Brian Dennehy rest in peace, but one migt wonder if he or anyone else in the acting crew ever came to peace with this film. I must admit that his death made me watch it, and I'm sad to say and sorry to see that this must be the low point of his amazing career. This is simply incredibly poor, and it's written, directed and edited on the level of a medieocre high school project. Everyone is over acting or just come out bad now matter if they try very hard not to. How did they get actors like Dennehy, Martin Sheen and Lindsay Wagner into this parody of a film? Naturally this was a another had to be made Hollywood project in a string of the public fear exploiting productions after several Ebola outbreaks in Africa from 1989 and through the early 1990s, peaking with Outbreak in '95, which is another overrated film on the topic. Is there anything similar about Malaria - like Mosquitos of Horror?

And all star cast helps a lot. Love these disaster type of movies.