Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

merelyaninnuendo Contagion2 And A Half Out Of 5Contagion is a plot driven dramatic feature about an unseen antagonist whose lethal strike has the potential to wipe out the entire world where the humans finds themselves surviving against nature rather than fighting back. Kudos to the writers for accounting in, each character's perspective till the last breath of the feature that helps keep the audience tangled into its poignant world. The primary objective of the feature would be to bind all the multiple characters and their sub-plots so that it doesn't come off as mere news to the audience which unfortunately it fails to do so. Addition to that, it also fails to create the anticipated impact on screen since the stakes in here never communicates with the viewers. The writing is also raw and a bit busy in its spiraled web since most of the time is spent upon offering the essential triggers and closure to each character which is frankly off putting. Soderbergh; the director, at the heart of it, is brilliant on executing each frame no matter how theoretical the script grows, he tries to keep the crisp alive. The performance is up to the mark by amazing cast like Damon, Winslet (She stands out alone with higher margin), Law, Fishburne and Cotillard. It is short on technical aspects like background score, camera work and cinematography. Repercussions that each decision at such critical moment might breed and its fast paced tone with shorter runtime are the only high points of the feature. Soderbergh's world might be passionate and have some idea to share, but within its self-created pathos procedure, the intriguing idea fades away quickly before the construction even begins. Contagion; similar to its antagonist, sticks with you until you surrender yourself with exhaustion and pity for the makers, with such a swing and a miss act.

Scott LeBrun Gwyneth Paltrow plays a "patient X", a woman who travels abroad and ends up contracting a lethal new virus that doesn't take long to kill the host. Things escalate fairly quickly, and soon the whole U.S. of A. is having to deal with an outbreak of massive proportions. The death toll is high: approximately one out of four people perish from contact with the virus. Dedicated doctors like Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) deal with the crisis as pragmatically as possible, while we see how it affects ordinary people like Matt Damon, in the role of Paltrows' husband."Contagion" is an interesting film, worth seeing, that attempts to show the more serious, "realistic" aspect to stories such as in "Outbreak" (1995). Director Steven Soderbergh, working from Scott Z. Burns' script, handles the material using a documentary-style approach. While some time is made for personal drama for assorted characters, Soderbergh and Burns would rather show you how places like the World Health Organization and the Centre for Disease Control would function in such a case. It does require the use of much language that the layman such as this viewer would not understand, but the points do still come across.Much like it would happen in real life, there is always a certain amount of cynicism and opportunism going on, as some individuals try to see how they can best profit from the situation. But then, this has always been the case. Just as we often see humanity at its worst during these times, we also see humanity at its best, as people like the Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle characters diligently work to solve the problem. In addition, we see how a cocky, smarmy blogger played by Jude Law undermines the efforts of Fishburne, yet the man does have some pointed comments to make himself.A gallery of familiar faces turn up in roles big and small: John Hawkes, Demetri Martin, Elliott Gould, Enrico Colantoni, Bryan Cranston, Sanaa Lathan, and Sanjay Gupta as himself. Each actor does get his or her little moment to shine, but this is truly more of an ensemble piece than a vehicle for anyone in particular.Key to the films' effectiveness is the fact that it remains fairly fascinating throughout, and its 107 minute run time moves along quicker than one might realize. It just dives headfirst into the story proper, with all credits, including the title, saved for the final several minutes. (And it waits until the concluding moments to show us how the virus got started in the first place.)Seven out of 10.

Theresa Nguyen (theresan-23740) It was a pretty good movie for the subject it displayed. Contagion was able to show the problems that arise from diseases. The film makes you question the health care systems and roles the government plays in maintaining control of the spread of diseases. It demonstrates the possibilities of outbreak and epidemics that could happen and what role everyone plays in that scenario. There is the government and international organizations that work to help eradicate it but are they eve doing it in the right way or is it all for profit, which leads to anger, fear, and hate which caused the destruction of order in the movie. Overall this film was quite interesting in that it low-key showed us the behind the scenes in an outbreaks and the necessity of disease control and prevention.

carters The Horror, the Horror... The trouble with most horror films is that no matter how scary they are the first time you see them all the horror is dissipated by future viewings. But today I watched the ultimate horror film for the third time. It's still crap your pants scary but what made this viewing different was that it was on basic cable and full of commercials. It was not only still horrifying but if anything it gets scarier with every viewing. The film is called CONTAGION and what makes it so effective is that the "monster" is one mutated bird flu gene away from real. To describe the film sounds mundane and almost bad documentary boring...(from the IFDb web site) "Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a worldwide epidemic as the CDC works to find a cure." But the film starts on a black screen with a single cough and by the end millions are dead. But what makes the film so horrifying is that each time you watch it you realize that in this day and age of world wide air travel a contagion like this one is not only possible but highly likely. If that doesn't scare you then you just aren't paying close enough attention. If you haven't seen the film rent the DVD, or put it in your Netflix queue, or at least catch it on TNT the next time they play it. But I warn you it is contagious.