Review: Contagion

Rating: *

Nonna's Rating: #

Rotten Tomatoes: 84%

Audience: 62%

What were critics thinking when 84% of them gave this film a positive review? It's embarrassingly bad in spite of considerable star power: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, and Elliott Gould! It's the story of a lethal virus which first appears around Hong Kong and which Gwyneth manages to bring to the U. S. on a flight from Hong Kong to Chicago. So, we watch some stars die and some survive. Too often the story line strains credibility. It's a mess.

Nonna's Rating

$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening

$$$ = Worth paying the Matinee price

$$ = Worth a rental

$= Wait for cable

# = Skip It