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Contagion Movie - Jan Wahl reviews the new thriller by Steven Soderbergh starring Kate Winslet, Lawrence Fishburne, Matt Damon, and Jude Law. Plus the documentary 'Chasing Madoff.'
Contagion Movie
Contagion Movie
The new film Contagion tracks the first several weeks as a new virus sweeps the world, killing the infected in a matter of days. But what makes Contagion so unique and powerful is that the virus is only briefly the villain.
I almost got into fisticuffs with a fellow critic the other day who made the oh-so original statement that Contagion was "just like Outbreak." Anyone who walks out of the Steven Soderbergh-directed Contagion is anything like like Outbreak beyond the disease premise either didn't see one or both movies, or that person is an idiot. You decide. Outbreak is about a bunch of researchers who race against the clock to contain a virus and keep it from spreading like wildfire... like 10,000 wildfires.
Jan Wahl reviews the new thriller by Steven Soderbergh starring Kate Winslet, Lawrence Fishburne, Matt Damon, and Jude Law. Plus the documentary 'Chasing Madoff.'
Viruses are the hottest bad guys on the big and small screens, multiplying with abandon in films such as "Contagion" (opening Friday), this summer's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and any recent zombie-centric movie or TV show like AMC's "The Walking Dead." They're an excellent cinematic expression of evil--invisible to the naked eye, they kill scores with no remorse. And they're always very, very contagious.
Hollywood loves to bring us worst-case scenarios: catastrophic twisters, Earth-destroying asteroids or, in the case of the upcoming film "Contagion," a rapidly evolving virus that threatens to wipe out global society as we know it.
Contagion Movie