Article: Virus is unoriginal and uninspired, and unlikely to inspire a sequel, so we can thank heaven for small mercies.(Features)

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There are plenty of serviceable if soulless movies around that borrow so heavily from other similar films that it's a miracle they don't get taken to court and charged with gross plagiarism and blatant theft. On the other hand, if you've never seen the films from which they "borrow" so clumsily then you might well believe you'd stumbled on something marvellous and original. Such is the case with Virus, a new techno-horror film by Gale Ann Hurd, the producer of the ...

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