A highly efficient medical thriller that lends a solid impression of verisimilitude to the kind of hard science, dangerous politics and social chaos that might accompany a really disastrous pandemic, Contagion goes about its business of scaring the audience into sealed plastic bubbles with a commendable lack of melodramatics. There are perhaps a few too many fractured storylines to really maximise the dramatic impact of the overall narrative, and the somewhat overly starry cast are occasionally in danger of impacting negatively on the documentary feel. As a result Contagion does somewhat give the impression of a TV movie that got lucky with the level of talent involved, but it does what it needs to do with understated yet brutal effectiveness and sets a new high-water mark for the epidemic disaster sub-genre.
Rating: 4/5
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