Don’t Touch Anything. Stay at least 10 feet away from anyone who looks sick. But most importantly, stay away from this movie. Contagion is about a disease which turns into an epidemic as it spreads rapidly around the world. The movie follows a bunch of people as they try and deal with the outbreak. But this is no Outbreak (1995 movie) because there is hardly any action. Contagion is billed as an action/thriller but it had neither…it played more like a documentary depicting the process of how the world might react to a virus that kills fast and spreads even faster. Contagion is jam packed with remarkable actors but sadly, none of them really acted. The movie didn’t allow them to, it was stale and mundane.Click Here to Download Contagion Movie Online free
Matt Damon. Gwyneth Paltrow. Kate Winslet. Laurence Fishburne. Jude Law. Marion Cotillard. Bryan Cranston. Elliott Gould. John Hawkes. Enrico Colantoni. Jillian Armenante. Even Demetri Martin is in it! The cast is stacked; however, the whole movie was really dry so nobody got to flex their acting chops. The only notables were Gwyneth Paltrow flopping around like a fish, Jude Law being an annoying sensationalist blogger and Demetri Martin looking ridiculously hilarious in a air-tight air-filled jumpsuit. Demetri’s character wasn’t supposed to be funny but you can’t help but laugh at him and his haircut. All these names are going to draw people to the theater, but you’re going to leave the movie wondering why they wasted so many people’s talents.
The base of the problem was the story…it was just boring. You expect something crazy to happen, some action to begin but the movie just stays at its slow pace and shows you step by step of the scientific and government response to a spreading disease. You know, the boring stuff most people aren’t interested in. “Well at least you learned something” was an audience member’s comment after the movie finished. In the beginning, the whole mystery is discovering what the disease is. Where did it come from? Who was patient 0? But after a while, like most of the characters in the movie, you lose track and stop caring about that. I understand that they wanted to keep the movie in the realm of reality and didn’t want to go over the top but there was nothing intriguing to keep the audience in the story. There was hardly any character development or emotional investment so you could literally walk out the movie at any time and not miss a thing.
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There were a lot of things that just don’t make sense in Contagion. A lot of character’s side stories begin but don’t end. After a while you wonder, what ever happened to that guy? Or what’s going on in that city? The movie tries to follow way too many people in way too many locations and you’re left caring about none of them. It does do a good job of showing all the varied aspects of the world and highlights the social breakdowns that occur, but it does this in a very mellow and undramatic way. You can compare the bleak action on screen with the half-assed dialogue with lines such as, “some people get a disease and live, some get sicker and die” and “somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat.” There are some great one-liners too, however, like, “Congress is figuring out how to work online,” and “blogging is not writing, it’s graffiti with punctuation!”
I’m not saying the movie is terrible…it’s really well shot (I mean, it is Steven Soderbergh) but it’s just not a movie I would recommend to spend money on and see in theaters. There’s plenty of social commentary and things that will make you think – especially about touching your face every minute of the day, but that seems like it belongs more in a news expose rather than a big Hollywood blockbuster film. Prepare yourself for a lot of scientific talk and a lot of anti-climatic story lines. Also prepare yourself for a terrible score filled with electronic synths that you could have made using the demo button on a crappy Casio keyboard. It is fun to watch the movie if you live or have been to any of the cities involved (Macau, Minneapolis, Hong Kong, London, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Geneva, etc) because you can spot local streets and buildings but other than that, don’t let yourself get sick from this movie.
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