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the hospital is the same as the one they possess which only delays the effect of the deadly virus. Working at gunpoint, Wesley takes a sample of Holly's blood; it shows that Holly has been infected, but somehow her body is fighting it off. Wesley and Holly contrive to escape and travel to a farm where Holly's grandfather lives. Wesley takes a blood sample from his friend Dr. Ann White Cloud, and realizes that her body is also fighting off the infection.
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Wesley and Ann gain access to a secret underground laboratory where Wesley used to work, where they hope to come up with a cure. Wesley finds out why Ann and Holly are not being affected by the virus: they have been drinking tea made with a specific wild herb that is known to Native American healers.
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Back at the home, Wesley and Holly are captured by the militia and taken at the hospital, but he manages to kill Floyd and disable the other soldiers. As soon as the biological protection team learn of the cure, they go out and pick all the flowers they can find and drop them by helicopter over the
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followers, who have been allowed to go free, attack the prison and rescue Floyd. They then proceed to invade and besiege the hospital, with much loss of life, and take medical personnel hostage including Wesley and his daughter Holly. But too late, they realize that the vaccine they were seeking at
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is an admirable effort," noting "The production values and acting are better than some of Seagal's subsequent movies," but going on to point out that due to its "ridiculously low action quotient it is a least-favorite of many Seagal fans." As of 2 October 2014, the film has a 22% "rotten" critics
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leader, Floyd Chisholm, who has given himself up after a long siege and has been arrested on weapons charges. In court, having ingested the virus himself (believing that he also possesses the vaccine) he spits at the judge, and starts the rapid spread of the disease.
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film, it features him as a local doctor and former immunologist who races against time to find a cure for an active viral outbreak, the origins of which trace back to a militia leader who injected himself with a deadly virus.
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David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews called it "dull" and criticized its lack of action (he claims, "Out of a 90 minute movie, there's maybe 10 minutes of actual Seagal hand-to-hand combat") and unwelcome political messages.
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and is also a weapons and self-defense expert, is called to a hospital when people start dying from an unknown but very deadly disease. He determines that the cause is a highly dangerous airborne
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and Paul Mones were rumored to be working on the script prior to its release; Mones was ultimately credited as a producer. Though the movie is credited as an adaptation of
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and calls in a Biological Response team, who seal off the town while doctors start treating sufferers with a vaccine. Unfortunately for them, several have already died.
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in America with select countries like Spain in 1998 seeing it as a theatrical release, the first Seagal film to skip most theaters. It was shot over eight weeks in
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is credited to M. Sussman and John Kingswell (neither has any other film credit of any kind). Several writers, including
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The film was released worldwide on July 10, 1998 and in the United States on February 6, 1999.
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This article is about the 1998 Steven Seagal film. For the 2000 Roland Emmerich film, see
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The film is Seagal's only effort to date in which he co-stars with his daughter, actress
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Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal
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town, telling the people to boil them and drink the liquid.
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Index

The Patriot (2000 film)

Dean Semler
The Last Canadian
William C. Heine
Howard Baldwin
Nile Niami
Julius R. Nasso
Steven Seagal
Gailard Sartain
L.Q. Jones
Camilla Belle
Stephen F. Windon
Touchstone Pictures
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
action thriller film
Dean Semler
Steven Seagal
The Last Canadian
William C. Heine
direct-to-video
Ennis
Montana
herbal medicine
virus
rebel
militia
militia
Steven Seagal
Gailard Sartain

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