1995 · action · thriller · drama
Outbreak (1995)
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen2h 9m1995
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Our read: Outbreak (1995) (1995) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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