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Michael Crichton always had a gift for assembling pop science into dialogue that easily ‘talked the talk’ – even if its accuracy tended to stumble when observed too closely. They are professional, highly capable, and generally sound very convincing when discussing the crisis. The team of scientists enlisted to handle the threat bring with them a surprisingly strong sense of authenticity. The film’s opening act is a deeply unnerving one as an entire town is found lying dead on the street and in their homes the only survivors a rambling alcoholic and a crying baby. The Andromeda Strain really does feel relevant to today’s real-life pandemic, representing as it does an uncontrolled outbreak of a new and unknown virus. The US military brings an emergency plan into effect, pulling four scientists out of their homes late in the evening and transporting them to an underground facility in the desert: the ultimate in secure laboratories. Within minutes this initial team is dead as well. They find the entire town dead killed by an unknown lethal pathogen collected by the satellite while in the Earth’s orbit.
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When a government satellite crashes into a small New Mexico town, a team is dispatched for retrieval.
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It focuses on scientists doing their jobs, running against the clock to crack the nature of the threat and to find a cure for it. Based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name, it foreshadowed not only the boom in similar Crichton adaptations two decades later but also an entire genre of similar virus-affected thrillers.
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It seems either fitting, then – or perhaps deeply inappropriate – to revisit Robert Wise’s 1971 science fiction thriller The Andromeda Strain. Silly, but good.2020 has been one hell of a year, with the world facing an ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The mini also features such talents as Andre Braugher and Ricky Schroder (yes, he’s “Ricky” again) as military dudes with secrets to keep, Viola Davis and Daniel Dae Kim as scientists with chips on their shoulders, and Eric McCormack as a journalist with a nose for hard news and a weakness for substances that can be abused, like booze and scoops. And also because The Andromeda Strain is premiering in high-definition, which means that Benjamin Bratt, who stars as Our Hero the infectious-disease doctor will be even more gorgeous than ever.
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Because all the paranoia about government secrecy is totally of the moment, plus the homicidal/suicidal rage the Andromeda bug induces is reminiscent of flicks like 28 Days Later and where we’ve seen zombie flicks going in recent years: toward zombieness/disease/public health hazards as threats to civilization, even if they don’t kill off everyone. When I say this new Andromeda Strain - from producers Tony Scott and Ridley Scott - kicks ass, I mean that in the sense of overly serious science fiction movies that make themselves even more unintentionally goofy than they might otherwise have been by being so damn solemn, as if Science were only important as long as no one cracks a smile. Things don’t look good: nukes are mentioned. The scientists are trying to figure out what killed everybody - is it North Korean bio warfare? OMG! - and why those two people survived, while at the same time trying to figure out what their own Washington overlords are keeping secret, and how those overlords plan to deal with this deadly virus or bacteria or whatever is it. Except for two survivors: a middle-age man and a baby girl, whom gubmint scientists snatch up and whisk away to a secret gubmint lab. It’s pretty much the story from the Michael Crichton novel, at least in this beginning half: a NASA satellite crashes to Earth, and some weird bug that’s hitched a ride on it wipes out an entire town in the middle of nowhere in Utah. Now, I’m guessing that planet Earth does not die at this time, but still: it’s very mean to leave me hanging like this. And it ends on a cliffhanger, with things looking pretty bad, like that the alien virus code-named Andromeda is about to be spread all around planet Earth, to the doom of us all. They only sent me a screener of the first night of the two-night “event” of the new adaptation of The Andromeda Strain on the cable network A&E, and to the A&E publicity people I say this: Bastards! Why tease me like this? It’s terribly mean.īecause that first night - it debuts on cable on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, at 9pm Eastern, and concludes on Tuesdays, May 27 at 9pm, and it’ll be available on DVD on June 3 - is pretty kick-ass.