Contagion

This movie was a thinly disguised propaganda stunt. Like all propaganda movies it is BORING in the extreme, despite its supposedly exciting plot. The "human interest" sub-plots were the stuff of unimaginative, stereotypical soap operas, and the acting was flat at best. The theme of this asinine propaganda is this: that dreaded bogeyman, Super Virus, is out there just waiting to pounce on us and only The Government -- and the wonderful agencies of FEMA, Homeland Security, the CDC, and the WHO -- can save us. We, of course, must only trust the mainstream media for information because anything you hear online is just nasty old conspiracy theories fomented by Evil People who are out to make Demon Profit off our gullibility. Big Pharma, it seems, is really Our Friend too, and when the government tells us to take one of its vaccines it's only because Big Brother loves us. This sort of tripe reminds me of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. I'd have given it a zero if that option were available.