Review of Contagion (2011) by Liam R — 05 Mar 2015

Well this was extremely disappointing for me. Directed by Stephen Soderbergh and it's a mass epidemic film? I should have loved this! But I didn't. In fact, I found it to be quite boring film with little to no tension and featuring zero characters I actually cared about in the slightest.

It isn't all bad of course. I do think this is a very good portrayal of how the world would have handled this situation, but my praise stops there. The film just drags on and on, having characters go from place to place doing the same thing and ultimately accomplishes nothing.

It also has 3 other plotlines, one about a web blogger who kept going on about some conspiracy, one about Matt Damon and his daughter, and the other about Marion Cotillard being kidnapped by Asian people.

Actually was that last plotline even resolved? Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if it was. Anyway, the plot about the web blogger was really just kind of annoying. The actual web blogger dude I didn't really like.

He was a bit of an asshole. Matt Damon's plotline should have been the best thing about this film, but no. Neither him or his daughter were given any development whatsoever, making the film more boring.

His daughter is actually quite stupid. There's a scene where sneaks out of the house to see her boyfriend. Like how unintelligent do you have to be? There's a infectious disease out there, that you could catch, but you decide "the hell with it, I'm horny" and could have possibly ended up dead.

Marion Cotillard's plotline was mostly just forgettable and not at all necessary. All that combined makes for a really stupid and boring film. Pass.