Outbreak
Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 10, 1995 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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58
ConsequenceJoe Lipsett
The film is less effective, unfortunately, at trusting its audience to remain invested in Cedar Creek’s drama, which results in two grating subplots that become the A-plot in the draggy third act. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
Outbreak has the feel of a movie written by a committee of writers -- it's totally lacking in personality. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
The effort to turn Outbreak into an action picture insures that little of it will be believable, regardless of how much scientific data has been woven into the story. The film's shallowness also contributes to the impression that no problem is too thorny to be solved by movie heroics. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
There's too much hardware, too little sense. Too much blood, too little flesh. Too much program, too little mind. That's the virus of the contemporary movie techno-thriller. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
It's all pretty hoary stuff, but you'll be willing to overlook most of it because the premise is so compellingly delivered, with flashy sturm und drang, by director Wolfgang Petersen. [10 Mar 1995, P.5G]
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