Outbreak Review
By Christopher Null
The painfully obvious plotline makes this an overly long medical thriller with no thrill. All that's left is some spewed-out medical terms, a sappy love story, and a few million bucks worth of military surplus jeeps and tanks. Luckily, Dustin and Co. are able to put this stuff to fairly good work, with strong performances by Hoffman and Russo saving the day, and the eerie feeling that all this military goofiness is just a bit too real.
There isn't much else to say about Outbreak. I just don't know where else you can see Dustin Hoffman chase a monkey.
Facts and Figures
Year: 1995
Run time: 127 mins
In Theaters: Friday 10th March 1995
Box Office Worldwide: $189.9M
Distributed by: Warner Home Video
Production compaines: Warner Bros. Pictures
Reviews
Contactmusic.com: 3 / 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 59%
Fresh: 26 Rotten: 18
IMDB: 6.5 / 10
Cast & Crew
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Producer: Gail Katz, Arnold Kopelson, Wolfgang Petersen
Screenwriter: Laurence Dworet, Robert Roy Pool
Starring: Dustin Hoffman as Sam Daniels, Rene Russo as Robby Keough, Morgan Freeman as Billy Ford, Kevin Spacey as Casey Schuler, Cuba Gooding Jr. as Salt, Donald Sutherland as Donald McClintock, Patrick Dempsey as Jimbo Scott, Benito Martinez as Dr. Julio Ruiz, Malick Bowens as Dr. Raswani, Zakes Mokae as Dr. Benjamin Iwabi, Bruce Jarchow as Dr. Mascelli, Dale Dye as Lt. Col. Briggs
Also starring: Cuba Gooding Junior, Gail Katz, Arnold Kopelson, Wolfgang Petersen, Laurence Dworet, Robert Roy Pool
