What possesses people to make garbage like this? What possesses them to watch it? "Virus" is a near-mindless attempt to steal box- office magic from the "Alien" series by putting poor Jamie Lee Curtis in an space-monster-on-the-loose movie full of chases and bloody carnage. (Director John Bruno is "Aliens" director James Cameron's old visual effects supervisor and producer Gale Anne Hurd was his producer.)

How does a monster made of electricity cause harm to humans -- besides turning off their power or hitting them with lightning bolts? Easy. The electro-being takes over the computers and power system of the Russian ship, reprograms everything, creates little mechanical monsters and then kills the human passengers and turns them into evil robots. Then it sails around waiting for more suckers to show up. Its mission; to destroy everybody on Earth. Its motive: It has been determined-- off in Electroworld, I suppose-- that humanity is a virus that must be eradicated.