Product Details

• Actors: Ray Wise, Alesha Clarke, Peter Asle Holden, Graham McTavish
• Directors: Jason Connery
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: MTI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: October 27, 2009
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002K9RTQM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,564 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Pandemic" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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PANDEMIC - DVD Movie

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars the real enemy, January 11, 2010

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Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandemic (DVD)

I watch alot of really truly bad lowbudget movies. I even give them a their own ratings. after all how can a cheap horror movie compete with a top notch film? But many of them had some sort of charm and some were good at that low budget level. This one however is bad on so many levels that it truly is at the bottom of the pile. As others have said there is barely a epidemic on screen, next too many people out there are determined to make endless movies in which the army or U.S. government is the real enemy. It's never any other government either, why not a hideous terror state like Iran as the focal point of human experimentation? Sure we've seen this plot endlessly. But really the U.S. government is supposed to be so dumb that they in 2009 would unleash a biological plague on their own people? Just to test it? It's beyond cynical, stupid and as bad as the 9/11 people who think that the U.S. government did that to make money, and this movie is even bad timed when we are faced with a true enemy: Radicalized islam (not Islam) that destroys everything it touches. But ever since the 70's we have had these conspiracy movies and some were actually decent thrillers but this isn't one of them. The acting is ok; but this is just a sinisterly bad movie.

1.0 out of 5 stars Unusual Title For a Movie with No Pandemic, January 8, 2010

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Compay (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandemic (DVD)

Merriam Webster defines the word Pandemic as "an outbreak of disease occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population." The title and DVD cover would lead you to believe that you're going to watch something in the vein of 28 Days Later, or at the very least, some Apocalytpic movie about a rapidly-spreading virus.

Instead, you're subjected to 90 minutes of Outbreak Lite. No pandemic, just a bizarre conspiracy theory movie with a low budget and sub-par acting. Like most movies that go straight to DVD, Pandemic features only one notable actor: TV and film veteran Ray Wise (Senator Morton from Rising Sun). But even his performance isn't enough of an antidote to save this ailing movie.

The film also falls victim to the formula of casting an attractive yet untalented actor (Alesha Rucci) as the lead. In all fairness, even if this movie had better casting and an improved budget, the storyline isn't remotely original. Do yourself a favor; buy Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman if you're in the mood for a suspenseful virus movie.

1.0 out of 5 stars It really is that bad., December 9, 2009

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Stephen Lewis (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandemic (DVD)

I'm writing this review to warn against wasting your time on this video. It is basically a conspiracy theory type movie, but it lacks any interesting story, dialogue, or concept. It's just a deadly virus, that's it. Yes, the government is experimenting on its people for a biological weapon they want to use. You now know as much about the movie as anyone who has seen the picture. And man, is it slow. It crawls along, and just when you think maybe it might start get interesting, it doesn't. You think, "surely there is going to be some twist to this and it will get better." Trust me, it wont, right up until the end.