Restart the Earth vs Virus
Restart the Earth has the higher audience score (6.7/10 against 5.4/10 for Virus). Restart the Earth is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 40m. Virus is the older of the two (1999 against 2021). Both are action, horror, science fiction movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Restart the Earth
Virus| Restart the Earth | Virus | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.7/10 | ★ 5.4/10 |
| Year | 2021 | 1999 |
| Length | 1h 29m | 1h 40m |
| Genres | Action, Horror, Science Fiction | Action, Horror, Science Fiction |
| Country | China | – |
| Director | Lin Zhenzhao | John Bruno |
| Main cast | Li Ruoxi, Tang Xin, He Shengming, Mi Luo, Michelle Ye Xuan | Donald Sutherland, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cliff Curtis, William Baldwin, Marshall Bell |
Synopsis
Restart the Earth
When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to the core of the plants to reverse their growth.
Virus
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
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