OUTBREAK (R) The new biomedical disaster thriller is about a deadly virus that's been carried into the U.S. by a cute-looking African monkey. Even veteran Army researcher Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) has never encountered anything so lethal. In essence, Outbreak is an update of all those sci-fi schlockers in which small towns were attacked by spores and blobs. The early sections are creepy and exciting. Yet the movie hurtles forward as relentlessly-and impersonally-as the disease itself, and Hoffman's rascally humanism gets squashed in the hardware-heavy climax. B- ( 266, March 17) -OG
EW's GRADE
B-Details Rated: R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Mystery and Thriller; With: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Kevin Spacey
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