"Future Fear" was last night's viewing..er...pleasure.
The basic premise is that a plague has taken over the world and killed off billions of people. A husband and wife scientist team are trying to find the cure. It's hard to say much more without really digging into it...
First off, this was obviously pretty cheaply made. Except for some cheap CG effects and some stock footage, most of the action takes place in some pretty barren hallways and rooms. I guess the budget went to get Stacey Keach, allthough I'm not sure why he's slumming around here
The story is fairly fractured. The wife is a scientist but also a soldier with martial arts skills? The husband and wife are also helicoptor pilots? (I swear the helicopter footage was lifted from another movie...maybe "Replikator"?) They're trying to grow a vaccine by combining human and animal DNA; the wife has a miscarraige so she becomes violently insistant that the creatures be allowed to come to term and possibly grow up? In the end, it was very hard to figure out who stood for what or who was betraying who. Ironically, the movie was both a bit dull as it stretched on, but could've used more scenes to explain what was going on? There was a subploy abut the doctors father that was never explained well. I why did Keach's character, the general, think it was a good idea to crash land the ship with the virus on it into the earth to wipe out most of humanity in the first place?
The acting was decent but the dialog had too much pretension in trying to use a lot of Alice In Wonderland quotes to give it an air of intelligence that really wasn't there
