Customer Ratings & Reviews

Good movie from the seventies. Picture quality was good.

Michael Crichton's books have had a mixed success translated to movies. Viewers universally love Jurassic Park and even Coma. On the other hand, does anyone watch Congo or Timeline? The Andromeda Strain was brilliantly brought to the big screen by Robert Wise and is every bit as entertaining now as it was when I saw it in a movie theater. This is a nice addition to our film collection. it has 1970s pacing --- this is classic, thoughtful sci-fi, not modern, noisy film-making. You've been warned. The movie has the original graphics and a wonderfully (remastered?) widescreen print which is far superior to my letter-boxed DVD. Not even close. Bright colors, crisp images, natural film grain, with no artificial edge enhancement. This is a wonderful presentation that is not likely to be improved upon.

I think that "The Andromeda Strain" was one of the greatest classic films of all-time and it was also one of my favorite classic films of all-time. I was surprised to find out that Michael Crichton had written the novel for this film and "Jurassic Park". I also think that "The Andromeda Strain" had a lot of entertaining and enjoyable action, mystery, horror and suspense including a really great and amazing cast and storylines as well.

The Andromeda Strain was eerily predictive of the genetic experimentation beginning done today