Outbreak (DVD)

Outbreak is a superb movie. It has an all star cast of Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kevin Spacey and Donald Sutherland. They all act very well and manage to bring the plot to life. The plot itself involves a monkey causing a disease to infect Cedar Creek, California. This means the town is quarantined and its a race against time to find a cure before the government blown the town up. This makes way for some tense confrontations ...

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...Outbreak, looks at a fictional outbreak of a deadly virus. Outbreak is about the discovery of a lethal virus called Motaba in Africa, by Colonel Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) who works for the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. Daniels asks his superior, Brigadier General Billy Ford (Morgan Freeman) to put out an alert for the disease, but Ford refuses. When the Motaba is transported to US by an infected monkey, ...
...outbreak of the disease, but is again hampered by Ford. Daniels seeks assistance from his ex-wife, Dr Robby Keough (Rene Russo), who works for the Center for Disease Control, and it becomes a race against time to contain the disease before it gets out of control. It also transpires that Ford and Major General Donald McClintock (Donald Sutherland) have history with Motaba in the past when they dealt with the disease unconventionally. I enjoyed this ...

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This is a scary story about chemical warfare. In Zaire, a village is infected by a deadly virus called ‘Motaba’, it appears similar to the factual ‘Ebola’ virus, which makes your eyes bleed and eats you from the inside out. The surviving few expect to be picked up by the military but are instead blown up to prevent the spread of the disease. The incident remained on secret file. A test monkey gets sent to America but is the ...
...but seems to form a bond with a young boy. Soon enough, it scratches a person and within hours, he’s dead. Cedar Creek, California had just become diseased. With the disease developing on its own, it had now become airborne and begins to spread like wildfire. Col. Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman), his ex-wife, (Rene Russo), and General Ford, (Morgan Freeman) are sent to investigate. Realising that they have a major problem on their hands to try ...

michellej 30.08.2000 (10.03.2001) · Read full review
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This excellent thriller starring Dustin Hoffman takes the viewer from war torn Africa to a US town eventually under Marshall Law. The performances in it are believable and entertaining with Donald Sutherland cropping up in yet another film where he palys an aging baddie! The storyline revolves around a virus thought wiped out by an huge air attack on an African village - organised by Sutherland. Several years later, the virus mutates and infects ...
...The battle is on to find the monkey and produce an antidote - with Sutherland and a reluctant Morgan Freeman doing their best to stop the whole process. The action doesn't stop until the final few minutes saving the unfortunate town from being wiped out by air attack in a similar that the African village was. Definately see! ...

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I have seen this film at least five times so i know what i'm talking about when i say it is really, really good. I only just saw it again on tv last night and really enjoyed it. It is obviously about a virus that comes from africa to the united states of america via a monkey, which they have to find to get a cure to the virus but there is all the usual complications such as the United States government not agreeing etc. etc. etc. Dustin Hoffman plays ...

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