if you have see the updated remake of rollerball and the time machine and planet of the ape and the invader and war of the world and the haunting and lose in space and and battlestar galactica and like them and if you like the contrived derivative science fictiony mini series take and then you will like this . the novel andromeda strain by michael chrichton could have be update to 2008 u. s. a. without do the overboard nonsense a clearly demonstrate in the above mention awful remake . i be sorry michael crichton be still alive to see this hack job of his masterpiece . for example and in the remake of the haunting and there have to be lesbian . for what reason and who know . but and in this remake and guess what . unnecessary homosexual . even though it be obvious in the original film that the female scientist could have be a lesbian it be immaterial to the plot and so wasn not explore . there be child abuse in the new the haunting and too . why . i dunno . someone want to make a point and i suppose and but fail utterly in do so . in the lost in space remake and the relationship between will smith and his father be dysfunctional a all get out . and unnecessarily so . well and in this remake and the various character ( and there too many of them ) all have some sort of dysfunctional relationship with each other and with baggage leave over from previous run in and affair and and incident . the planet of the ape remake and time machine remake both do something stupid and unnecessary with time space travel . so do this . wan na not trust the government . well and the take use that so much it wear a hole in it . and it do to death in this remake and even though and in the original andromeda strain and it be do just right . why . because in the original the government be run a con on the bio scientist who do not figure it out until five minute from the end . that be enough government conspiracy stuff for me . i do not need anti government paranoia thrown in my face and overdose me and from the first minute of the film . and do not get me start on the moronic and pander introduction of a sensation seek journalist ( who wasn not in the original novel or film ) that just muck up the whole work . the producer apparently want to base him on an anderson cooper geraldo rivera hybrid . like that a good model for a fabricated journalist . if you want to update the andromeda strain and why not do it by update the computer tech and the genetics and the medical diagnosis tech and the biochemistry knowledge or tech and the biowarfare tech . those be all in the original film and but could use update to 2008 tech or even envision a bit beyond 2008 tech . it could have be do just like the original andromeda strain and which put tech there that be recognizable and believable and understandable for a 1970 audience and but and where necessary and take it a step or two into the future . and why do we have to have a mix and match one from column a and one from column b gender or race or sexual preference scientific team . because it politically correct . guess what . i just watch the phoenix mar lander team get interview and there be no such politically motivated race or gender or sexual preference nonsense on that team . that because the phoenix team be choose on the basis of knowledge and expertise and and ability and just like the the original andromeda strain scientific team . sorry and benjamin bratt and christa miller and eric mccormack and and rick shroder and i love you in other stuff and but you sure get suckered into this . i really hate remake that be over emo and angst fill and self involve and personality conflict bore fests . can you tell . anyway and after watch this wretched thing and i put in my dvd of andromeda strain and actually enjoy the andromeda strain .