After these scenes the film moves on as fear and wonder grip the scientists to a satisfying conclusion. Restrained film making is not common but in this case it is really effective. Nothing dramatic, only small details adding up to a large tragedy.

The early scenes in the town of Piedmont are fascinating. Most popular cinema celebrate the fist or the gun but part of the excitement of this film is the use of the intellect to tackle the problem.

Yet in them is a longing to know, to discover, to solve. The scientists, played very well by Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid and James Olson, are fallible and have real emotions. It is science fiction, alien virus comes to earth type thing, but has more depth than just that. 'The Andromeda Strain' is an engrossing film from beginning to end. He managed to make genre films more interesting and watchable than other more celebrated directors. Robert Wise is an under rated director but in his body of work are such gems as 'The Body Snatcher', 'The Set-Up', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', 'Odds Against Tomorrow', 'The Haunting', 'West Side Story', 'I Want to Live!' and on its own terms, 'The Sound of Music'. Reviewed by henry-girling 9 /10 Near Perfect I give it 10/10, and am sad that nobody produced a Sci-Fi as scientificly accurate ever since. I am not put off by dated computer technology: the film clearly illustrates the computing capabilities at the beginning of the '70, and I find something educative and strangely reassuring in that. I also thought the actors were good and the setting was brilliant.

In fact, it's the most accurate of all Sci-Fi movies I have ever seen (and I have seen the great majority of Sci-Fi cinema).īut there are other, probably subjective reasosn for my adulation of 'Andromeda Strain': believable people and believable situations (no 'last microsecond decision/action/occurance', no over-the-top behaviour, just human quirkyness, no one-man-does-it-all but teamwork and birth of ideas) and the avoidance of the cliche of only-1-will-survive. Today, as a MSC EE, I can see that the science in 'Andromeda Strain' is accurate. I remember seeing this movie and being fascinated by the science and technology on display in it. I have always been attracted by science, since my early childhood. Reviewed by haggar 10 /10 A Sci-Fi with a capital 'S'.

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