Episode 110 - Outbreak

The all-the-sudden relevant movie from 1995,” Outbreak,” about a
global pandemic and how to stop it, misses the chance to be
interesting by squandering its all-star cast in exchange for
mindless explosions, helicopter chases and a cheesy love story.


Always-angry Dustin Hoffman plays a military doctor who looks
like he’s wearing his daddy’s fatigues on Halloween. He seems
more concerned about getting his ex-wife (Rene Russo) back than
he is about saving the world.


Silky-voiced Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland play
friendly-evil and unfriendly-evil military higher-ups who are
trying to conceal the outbreak because it was caused by a
biological weapon they were hoping to later develop (or
something).


Cuba Gooding Jr. plays a dude who can apparently do anything
(like create vaccines instantly, fly helicopters like an ace, and
even be a marksman with a tranquilizer gun). Well, everything
except not vomiting at the sight of illness. Ya know, as all
doctors do.


We also get Marcel the monkey from “Friends,” who plays an
on-the-loose, virus-ridden capuchin that people are immediately
attracted to without realizing how insanely destructive she is.
Like Amber Heard.


The only good thing about this movie is we do get to watch Kevin
Spacey slowly die a horrible death. So that’s somethin’.


Join us as we do bad Morgan Freeman impressions and wonder about
Dustin Hoffman’s manhood.


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