I watched Contagion for my second movie. The movie is about a mysterious disease that begins to spread world wide after exposure to a few victims. The disease progresses into a full blown epidemic and the world attempts to discover a vaccine before all people are wiped out. The movie follows a couple of key characters. Matt Damon plays a character whose wife and son were killed by the disease, but he is discovered to be immune to it. He struggles to protect his daughter from contracting the disease because he does not want to lose the last remnants of his family. Jude Law's character is a journalist who is attempting to find out drugs he could use to cure the disease. He believes there is a government conspiracy attempting to cover the cure up from the people. The movie also follows doctors from the CDC and the WHO that are trying to find the cure to the disease in time to save everyone.
I thought this movie was pretty good, but it did seem very similar to another movie I had to watch last year, Outbreak. Contagion uses quick cuts in the movie in order to show the different stories between the characters, which happen simultaneously. It can get confusing with the amount of characters there are and the knowledge that each character has, so you have to be paying some pretty close attention to understand some of the parts. I also thought the ending was very anti climatic. I do not know exactly what I was expecting to happen, but it seems that the disease is just cured and you see where the disease came from in a short, dialogued clip.
I enjoy this movie although the ending wasn't anything special, or anything I didn't expect. I would give this movie a 6.5/10.
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