Watchable But Ultimately Disappointing

When a satellite crashes near a small town in Utah, a deadly virus of unknown origins is released. Now the military and a group of scientists race against time to contain the virus before the whole of North America is affected.

For a television movie, The Andromeda Strain has some good visuals - the cgi and other special effects are all excellent. The story too, gets off to a great start. By the time the scientists had reached the town and seen the devastating effect of the virus I was hooked.

However things start going downhill as more and more characters and plots are introduced so that in order to tie things up, the writer had to cut corners and come up with scientific gobbledegook along with not one, but TWO government conspiracies.

With all the shifts in storytelling to take care of the different point of views I found myself not caring for anyone. Plus any dramatic tension was lost and by the time of the open ended finale that The X-Files is so good at I was wondering why I wasted my time.

5/10