Outbreak
| Year: | 1995 |
| Production Co: | Punch Productions |
| Studio: | Warner Bros |
| Director: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Producer: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Cast: | Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Rene Russo, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kevin Spacey, J T Walsh |
Riveting action thriller made better with great performances by the accomplished lead actors as a rogue army biologist (Hoffman) finds the truth about a toxic outbreak in a small Californian town.
Unbeknowns to anyone until the end (although it wasn't hard to guess), the army itself is responsible for the horrible agent - it's a weapon, and they're prepared to wipe the entire town off the map to keep it secret. The heroes must butt with two gung ho generals, the ever-evil Donald Sutherland and reluctant Morgan Freeman, who seeks redemption just in time.
Kevin Spacey put in a great early career appearance as the sarcastic researcher, and while Dustin Hoffman is a little hard to accept as the everyday Joe made a hero, he and Gooding Jr are great together in a half-serious, Laurel & Hardy way.
Enough of both the wryly humourous and the deadly serious.
Unbeknowns to anyone until the end (although it wasn't hard to guess), the army itself is responsible for the horrible agent - it's a weapon, and they're prepared to wipe the entire town off the map to keep it secret. The heroes must butt with two gung ho generals, the ever-evil Donald Sutherland and reluctant Morgan Freeman, who seeks redemption just in time.
Kevin Spacey put in a great early career appearance as the sarcastic researcher, and while Dustin Hoffman is a little hard to accept as the everyday Joe made a hero, he and Gooding Jr are great together in a half-serious, Laurel & Hardy way.
Enough of both the wryly humourous and the deadly serious.