USA 2009 90m      Directed by: Steven Bratter. Starring: Duane Daniels, Cristian Letelier, Mette Holt, François Petit, Nicole Marie Lenz, Dylan Patton, Remy Thorne, Brock Kelly, Newell Alexander, Roxanne Arvizu, Mark Gantt, Daniel Hagen, Aiden Astrup. Music by: Ross Hanover.
After his ominous visions of an airborne bio-terror attack on the U.S. become reality, Jordan Tyler, a former expert in the U.S military's top-secret psychic spy program, and his scientist wife Cici must race against the clock to stop an incurable, bio-engineered virus that could end civilization as we know it...
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First Strike is an extremely low-budget movie. It is one of the lowest budget movies I've ever seen. My mother would call a film like this a "3 o'clocker" because it would go virtually unseen except by night owls or insomniacs who were awake at 3 a.m.
The plot is just...sad. There is a scene (minor spoiler) in which a kid on a scooter is trying to get away from some teenagers on skateboards. Can a scooter go faster than a skateboard? Will the kid make it home in one piece? Will his mother be able to come to his rescue? Does this scene constitute a thrilling action sequence? Well, in this movie it does.
And if you're going to make a movie about bio-terrorism, (spoiler)please try to budget in an actual lab setting in which to cook up your save-the-world antidote.
Review by look andlisten from the Internet Movie Database.