“Contagion” takes what should be an interesting concept about a disease spreading across the world and somehow manages to make unbearable as the film has no idea what to be and how to address its audience.

“Contagion” is, as I’ve already said, about a disease spreading across the world and it seems like nothing can stop it. It follows several characters including a father (Matt Damon “The Bourne Identity”, “Good Will Hunting”) and his teenage daughter; his wife was one of the first to be exposed to the disease. Jude Law (“Sherlock Holmes”) plays a blogger, who stars in a reasonable amount of the film. Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix”) plays the head of the C.D.C., Gwyneth Paltrow (“Iron Man”) briefly plays Damon’s character Mitch’s severely ill wife and several other famous faces make unmemorable appearances as various characters, which have little to no depth as the CDC try and save the world from this new threat.

None of the actors or actresses’ performances are in anyway memorable. They all give a mediocre at best portrayals of their poorly written characters. In fact, I think the film would have been better if the acting was bad because it was been at least something to remember from this genuinely poor film.

From beginning to end I didn’t feel any emotion. I was hoping for some scares or some thrills or even some interesting characters but I got nothing. The movie’s concept of spreading disease every time you touch something is an absolutely terrifying thought but the execution is so half-hearted it loses any and every aspect or fear. The movie may have a big budget and lots of big names but that’s all. It seems the movie is good on the outside but there’s a poor script that contains no moments of suspense, excitement or emotion and the film feels very uncertain of what it wants to be as it blunders into the unknown.