Contagion

Drama, Pandemic
3.5 stars
Good, but I wouldn’t recommend running out to the theaters to see it either. Gwyneth Paltrow returns from a trip to Hong Kong with a deadly flu that quickly spreads around the world. We’ve all seen these epidemic and pandemic movies before with the quarantines, panic and paranoia, etc., etc. Good acting by a fine cast separates this film from the pack, but the ambiguous outcome of several storylines just pissed me off. What happened with Laurence Fishburne’s character? What about Marion Cotillard? Why did Jude Law suddenly stop wearing his Hazmat spacesuit? Matt Damon and Kate Winslet also co-star. Wait for cable.