yet the craziness never fully blooms in Steven Soderbergh's movie about a killer disease that sweeps the planet, and the result is like someone injected "ER" with the blood of "The Poseidon Adventure"
it's an action thriller, a good one, but it doesn't take on any additional importance or meaning as it wears on - it's just a smart, entertaining experience, which is enough
I've seen a lot of frightening stuff at the movies. But nothing matches the terror of watching a hand dip into a bowl of bar nuts at an airport bar, and thus spreading death, in Contagion
Contagion doesn't come together as the fearsome bio-thriller it starts out to be. But it may make audiences twitchy about the guy coughing in the next row
all this germ procedural offers is the sight of people behaving badly, willing to do their worst to get first dibs on a vaccine. Sadly, that's no surprise