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Contagion

"Nothing spreads like fear."

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

Top Cast

  • Marion Cotillard

    Marion Cotillard

    Leonora Orantes

  • Matt Damon

    Matt Damon

    Mitch Emhoff

  • Laurence Fishburne

    Laurence Fishburne

    Ellis Cheever

  • Jude Law

    Jude Law

    Alan Krumwiede

  • Kate Winslet

    Kate Winslet

    Erin Mears

  • Jennifer Ehle

    Jennifer Ehle

    Ally Hextall

  • Gwyneth Paltrow

    Gwyneth Paltrow

    Beth Emhoff

  • Bryan Cranston

    Bryan Cranston

    Lyle Haggerty

  • Elliott Gould

    Elliott Gould

    Ian Sussman

Overview

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

Rating

6.6 / 10
6,555 Reviews
5 Popular

4 Reviews

  • markuspm
    markuspm
    Dec 23, 2013

    Since watching this movie I think I feel differently when people around me start sneezing.

  • talisencrw
    talisencrw
    9 May 2, 2016

    I have a special place in my heart for the medical thriller. Looking back, I believe it stems both from being sick a lot when I was a kid, and from really enjoying great ones over the years, like 'Coma' and 'Outbreak'. As well, more recently I remember the panic both my son's mother and I tended to have when our son was born during the SARS epidemic back in 2003. Needless to say, when one of these films comes along, it's only a matter of time before it crosses my path. Director Soderbergh is intelligent enough to really make this material work, going at it from every conceivable angle (and many inconceivable ones!) yet still giving it coherence in a decent runtime (not a Bay-esque three hours) and there's enough star power to keep one's attention. The best kind of review for these sort of films is that it leaves you thinking twice before you have an affair, or even throw out your Kleenex, and that's specifically what Soderbergh's work here does.

  • Rocketeer Raccoon
    Rocketeer Raccoon
    5 Jun 10, 2017

    Even if Contagion has a decent star line up for a disease epidemic movie such as Matt Damon, Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne but the film itself actually felt really flat and I thought it was very disappointing to be honest. I was actually expecting a lot more from this but instead the story just wasn't very thrilling and exciting and most of the main characters were completely meaningless and uninteresting. Matt Damon plays one of the better main characters who is trying to keep his daughter safe from the infection but I think this subplot was very underdeveloped and they could have expanded on this more to give it more of a thrilling story to really show the world going to Hell. I mean the film itself is ok but it's a very flawed and I was actually expecting a more bleak ending.

  • Dr_Nostromo
    Dr_Nostromo
    7 Jan 1, 2026

    65/100 Details the outbreak of a new virus and how it becomes a worldwide epidemic. The film just lays out the events as they occur with no action to speak of, little suspense, nothing overly dramatic, and yet the cold clinical style of it, in addition to what we've experienced lately with Covid, makes it more terrifying than a lot of horror movies I've seen. Excellent performances by everyone. -- DrNostromo.com

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