Thursday, December 1, 2016

Andromeda Strain

Actors: Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne
Rating: 6 out of 10, This hasn’t aged well which is not surprising as it highlights the leading edge technology of 1971 which is laughable in today’s society. The reveal of the town killed off by exposure to the extraterrestrial bug is startling but the dialogue is stilted to the point of unintentional comedy. While this was a fresh and thoroughly interesting story thirty years ago it comes across as almost quaint nowadays. The supposedly dramatic race to turn off the nuke was ridiculous.
MVP: Reid as the butch, epileptic scientist steals every scene she’s in 

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