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Waste of Money.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Don't Believe the Hype

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Seriously, the most boring film I've sat through in a long, long time.Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwenyth Paltrow (I've probably spelt two of these names wrong already) and Lawrence Fishburne say, "Come on, a solid drama with good performances, give me a viewing", so I did... and where the acting was good indeed, the film itself is one of the dullest, offensively tedious bags of crap I've endured in so long that I'm repeating myself.And I still am: absolute bore. Avoid.

Contagion was a bit of a mixed bag for me. The cast was stellar but under used, the plot was very predictable and characterisation was frustrating.However the movie does have some highlights. The music does a great job of adding tension, which is very important as the screen writing didn't have any by itself. The lighting and general cinematography were also well executed, with a very exaggerated colour palette providing emotional depth or definition in an otherwise boring and flat movie.All in all, watch it to enjoy the great direction by Steven Soderbergh, as he did the best he could with the awful screen writing and unoriginal plot ideas.

This is one of those movies that flew beneath a lot of people's radar. I rented it after hearing about it and was impressed. The sequence of event (from index case to the conclusion of the virus being contained), is tense but without the added conspiracy/action/drama elements that exist in similarly themed movies. I found that really refreshing. The makers of CONTAGION created a realistic feeling world where the biggest obstacles are egos, government bureaucracies and the human instinct for self-preservation. Laurence Fishburne and Jude Law play the two most interesting characters in the story. This is one to check out and one that people in the medical field might find pretty factual.

I was entertained by this film.i thought it was well acted,well written and well directed.it's also plausible that this could actually happen.in fact,it has happened more than once,which makes it all the more enthralling and compelling.you really care for the characters.at least I did.it poses questions that we do not have the answer for.will the next occurrence be on a bigger scale?will we be ready for it? and is it possible the population could be decimated?nobody knows.we can only hope we are prepared for any eventually and respond accordingly.anyway,that's enough soapbox preaching.for me, contagion is a solid 7/10