![]() ![]() ![]() It may be humor but Miss Reid is more vinegary than funny. ![]() There's no phony love interest dragged in, for example.He has changed one of the scientists to a woman but hardly for glamour reasons, Kate Reid not being the glamorous type. Producer-director Robert Wise has wisely not tampered overmuch with the book. THE FILM is based on Michael Crichton's recent best-seller. There's nothing wrong with formula when it works and it works with no strain in this movie. The story sounds as if it could happen.īasically "Andromeda Strain" is good melodrama - a mysterious crisis followed by several minor problems topped by an exciting if contrived climax. The result has less hoked up horror than most offerings and more realism. "Andromeda Strain" puts the emphasis on science in this tale of micro-organism picked up by a satellite which wipes out an entire town after the satellite's return to earth. Tony Mastroianni Review Collection "The Andromeda Strain" is superior science-fiction Cleveland Press May 15, 1971Ĭreatures from outer space are still the basic stuff of science-fiction thrillers. ![]()
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