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A SHOCKER OF THE DEEP IN NEED OF HUMOR
[STATEWIDE Edition]
Hartford Courant
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Hartford, Conn.
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In that seagoing flopperoo, a skipper played by Treat Williams was forced to board a luxury ship by a band of scurvy pirates -- only to encounter a horrific creature from the ocean's depths. "Virus" pits the crew of the tugboat Sea Star against mechanical monsters created by a superior intelligence from outer space aboard a Russian scientific vessel. Both waterlogged sagas also serve up human villains. Williams at last discovered that the ship owner was involved in some dastardly insurance scheme. It takes nowhere near as long for Jamie Lee Curtis' Kelly "Kit" [Kit] Foster and William Baldwin's Steve Baker to see that Donald Sutherland's Captain Everton is up to no good, desperate as he is to claim the huge ship's salvage fee. Sutherland is about the only cast member to discern what this comic book-inspired, high-tech horror melodrama needs: a big dose of comedy. He gives a wildly eccentric performance, with much eye- rolling and traces of some sort of British accent. Meanwhile, Curtis and Baldwin go about their business with humorless intensity, as the screenplay by Dennis Feldman and Chuck Pfarrer (who created the Dark Horse comic book) trots out the old "Ten Little Indians"/"Alien" formula. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
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