![]() ![]() With a cast that must react to yet another apocalyptic threat percolating to the surface every five minutes, this new Andromeda Strain becomes an exercise in excess.Įx- cinematographer Mikael Salomon ( The Abyss) keeps the action hot and the comic-book dialogue at a constant boil. So many added layers of jeopardy and disaster are shoveled into this story that no script could possibly support them all. Crichton's tale of a deadly alien virus brought to earth by a space probe just isn't good enough like the the proverbial mouse overdesigned into an elephant, it's been put on narrative steroids to compete with other action movies afflicted with ADD/ADHD. The new two-part miniseries of The Andromeda Strain takes Michael Crichton's original story idea, itself a clever technology-intensive reworking of older 1950s Sci-Fi concepts, and Goes Committee on it. Like most genre filmmaking today, Science Fiction efforts have a difficult time trying to please a broad demographic of viewers. ![]() ![]() Written by Robert Schenkkan from the novel by Michael Crichton ![]() Starring Benjamin Bratt, Eric McCormack, Christa Miller, Daniel Dae Kim, Viola Davis, Justin Louis, Barry Flatman, Ted Whittall, Ted Atherton, Tom McBeath, Rick Schroder, Andre Braugher 2008 / Color / 1:78 anamorphic widescreen / 176 min. ![]()
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