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Review: Contagion is a fast moving story that is always interesting. There are a lot of characters, but the plot is easy to understand, and the biology seems completely plausible.
One subplot that worked was how daughter Jory couldn't see her boyfriend, but the dance scene was a too saccharine for me. Kate Winslet and Marion Contilliard gave good performances as driven doctors. The cinematography and art direction was uninspired.
Cast: Gwenth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Anna Jacoby-Heron, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, and Marion Contilliard.
Directed by: Steve Soderbergh
Rating: 2.5 stars; it is pushing three stars, but it lacks emotional engagement. It gets points for telling a warning story that might inspire people to stockpile canned goods and ammunition. My DW liked it: because it was interesting and not stupid.
More: I liked the barnyard epilogue at the end. Nicest visuals in the film.
Even more: Those ribbon structures of virus protein binding looked simplified to me.
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Plot: A woman (Gweneth Paltrow) carries a flu bug from Hong Kong to Minneapolis infecting people on the way and then she and her son dies. Her husband Mitch (Matt Damon) get quarantined, and his daughter Jory (Anna Jacoby-Heron) is distraught. The CDC and WHO jump on the case including CDC Chief Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) and investigators Drs. Meers (Kate Winslet) and Orantes (Marion Contilliard). Meanwhile blogger and busybody Alan (Jude Law) hawks a homeopathic cure.
The best part is that it really could happen, and that makes it a little more scary. The worse part is that we never engage with individual characters. The characters are always in a hurry, and the spreading disease is more important than building the backstory.
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