Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a worldwide epidemic as the CDC works to find a cure (www.imdb.com).
Director: Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Che: Part One)
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston
Contagion is a slow burner, a mildly tense thriller about an unknown disease that spreads as fast as wildfire. We're spoon fed with information from different sources, from Kate Winslet's support aid helper to Laurence Fishburne's CEO of a company who're attempting a cure. On ground zero there's Jude Law's 'tell it as it is' blogger and Matt Damon as the only representative with any feelings. And here lies the problem with Contagion; it may have kept my attention for the duration, but I didn't really care who lived and who died, bar Matt Damon and his daughter. This film feels like could have been a documentary in its early drafts, and the team behind it decided to take a different route.
3/5
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