Film Review: Contagion

Contagion is an ensemble film by Steven Soderberg about the effects of a super flu-like pandemic on the global population and a macro view on the attempts by health authorities to contain the outbreak.

It boasts a fantastic cast, among them Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Lawrence Fishburne and Gwyneth Paltrow. Somehow Contagion manages to be entertaining and highly informative at the same time. It is an extremely ambitious movie and for the most part it succeeds in it's lofty goals. You will find that you are a bit more germ-phobic after watching it. Contagion is by far the best movie about an outbreak to date.

4/5 Time to get ill.