Well, this film was certainly interesting and star-studded though I found it far more fantasy than reality given what happened in the world last year.
In this case, Gwenyth Paltrow's character eats some diseased pork, cheats on her husband, the delightful Matt Damon, has a seizure and dies in short order. She takes out her little son also, but somehow, he's immune, and the disease seizes Minneapolis and puts the CDC director (Laurence Fishburne) on edge, causing him to give his fiancé (Sanaa Lathan) privileged information and will have to pay for that.
Even more unrealistic, WHO doctor Marion Cotillard being kidnapped to save a small village, and then returning to them when the vaccines are placebos only and then there is Jude Law's character who leaves a pregnant woman to die and then fakes a cure for the dreaded illness, only to make himself rich.
So yeah, tons of problems even though the performances were solid and they managed to make to flesh out most of the plot lines, but still. This film could have been so much more realistic and tight rather than complex. Grade: B
Side Notes:
-So apparently, this deadly illness has a 75% cure rate but none of the characters we see who become ill survive, so I can't believe that.
-The cast is truly packed, Bryan Cranston, Elliott Gould. John Hawkes and Jennifer Ehle provide excellent support.
-Elliott Gould's character disobeys a direct order and starts finding a cure for the wretched disease. He doesn't get in trouble.
-Jennifer Ehle's character sticks the vaccine in her to experiment to prove that it works and it does.
-They auction off vaccines by birthdays. Like that would work.
-Vaccine bracelets were given to those who were safe, which I wish they would do now, even though that wouldn't go over well.
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