This is based on a story by Michael "jurassic park" Critchon about a mysterious object that lands in an isolated town and releases a deadly virus. I watched the 1970s one but it's been recently remade for tv by Ridley and Tony Scott (those guys really need a hit) with z grade actors who all look way too fit and tan to be scientists, look how cool the 70s scientists are - they actually look like they could do some science. The other guys look like they know how to choose a quality sheet with high threadcount but science - no way.Four top scientists are recruited and taken to a secret rainbow underground lab to conduct research on the possible ways to destroy the virus.
I watched it trying to imagine how cutting edge it would of been in the 70s. There's use of multiple screenshots at the same time (24), high tech robot hands, special surgery suits and the multi level lab that's a different colour for each level.
The town scene and weirdly enough the science scenes with the main characters applying their respective science to the virus are tense and interesting - it's all the inbetween scenes that are boring and it takes a long time to get into the swing of things.
The scene where they're testing the virus on animals is also unnecessarily realistic. The filmmakers choked 2 rats and a baby monkey with carbon dioxide to make them pass out and then revived the monkey (but probably not the rats)
NO - whoever is operating the camera is shithouse and it's a baby monkey for chrissakes!
