The Andromeda Strain Miniseries (2008)

Trash, plain and simple

This movie sucked! Science fiction, once a great form of fun escapism has been hi-jacked by political hacks looking for another soapbox from which to peddle their petty agendas, and this is no exception. It has every anti-American cliché known to modern media from conspiracies about the gulf war to government hit men. The number of technical mistakes is far too numerous to mention. The science has more in common with the Greek mythology and the fiction just a vehicle to peddle a jaded view of the U.S. This was nothing more than agenda-drive tripe clinging to the coat tails of a great story and masquerading as science fiction. Everyone associated with this project should be ashamed. Trash, the whole thing was nothing but trash!
September 8, 2008

Super cool movie for a tv drama

Really liked it alot as far as a tv movie goes. Nice twists and turns with the plotlines. ENJOY!! August 29, 2008

Phenominally bad

Cool idea. I think, given the few good things I pulled from this that the original Crichton book must be pretty good. But good grief, whoever approved the script for this adaptation must've been under the influence.

The story made no sense. No sense. I understood where they were TRYING to take it, but they wove so many conflicting (and irrelevant) plotlines into it that I just couldn't bring myself to care. It was like Mystery Science Theatre 3000 in my house watching this thing- we were laughing every time they tried to do something dramatic.

They steal tired plot twists and basic subplots from every cliche source possible and then bash them together until the thing is utterly predictable and kind of just sad. Broken family, pointlessly evil military types, news reporter guy who you keep thinking will serve a purpose in the plot but NEVER DOES, barely fleshed out conspiracy theory that just gets left hanging, blackmail of agent via her family, people committing suicide to "save" their comrades when there was no feasible reason except that the director wanted some suicide in there, and a guy that falls in some water and just dies for some reason. No explanation.

Oh, and bad acting. Don't even think about wasting your time on this one. July 24, 2008

new and inproved

Having been a fan of the original movie, I was very excited and tantillized for an updated version. Suspense was maintained and kept the viewer hooked on this Sci-fi delight. The best part? That there is always some truth in in the telling of the tale. July 23, 2008

Andromeda nice remake of movie

Nice remake of original movie. Maybe a bit long, but good character development. Although the lab in the original looked better in my opinion July 11, 2008

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