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A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.
The four-hour miniseries about a mysterious plague is light on moving personal drama and heavy on complicated science theories involving bacteria, binary codes and worm holes. Unfortunately, it is short on suspense until the final 30 minutes.
Eminent producing brothers Ridley and Tony Scott have prolonged the flick to miniseries length. Truly awful acting and often silly dialogue botch any tension.
What starts out as a serviceable disease thriller descends into a preposterous and dreary mess that bogs down in one boring and meaningless expository chat fest after another.
Tapping into 21st-century paranoia, the latest "Strain" cultivated from Michael Crichton's novel combines a messy hodge-podge of elements, each of them pallid compared with that earlier go-round.
The effects are sometimes too obviously computerized, the back stories of family and romance unnecessary. But overall, it's quite an entertaining piece of high-velocity intrigue.
For about three hours and 40 minutes, the mini-series rockets along, an exciting pile of preposterousness with conspiratorial overtones. Then it fizzles, with stuff you've seen 1,000 times before, and irritating loose ends.
This version of the story is paced well; it gives Crichton's story a hint of blandness, but it also marches through the plot with no-nonsense efficiency.