Contagion

Contagion


Starring:Bruce Boxleitner
Studio: Platinum Disc
Product Type: DVD
Contagion
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • GUILTY PLEASURE
 Contagion
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner , Megan Gallagher , and Lin Shaye
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002S64AU
Release Date: 2004-08-17

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars GUILTY PLEASURE.......2005-05-21

Yes, CONTAGION has some really incredulous dialogue and plot holes the size of the Grand Canyon, but for me it was a guilty pleasure. The movie knew how to push all the right emotional buttons; the president was stoically heroic; the virologist heroically sacrificial; the little boy hopelessly cute; the female villain deliciously over the top; and a scenario that although not expertly developed, still frightening in its implications. Bruce Boxleitner in a Bill Clinton impersonation plays the President who is assaulted by a crazed virologist and her partner, and given the Ebola virus, but a different strain that can be deadly even airborne. The President, his aides and a lot of patients are quarantined at an urgent care hospital and the villains demand a hundred million dollars or the president will die. Pretty far-fetched at times, but the scriptwriters knew enough to make us feel the tragedy of some of the deaths, but the Secret Service agents are refreshingly heroic and believable, even if the over the top general out to be president, is too incredible to be convincing. Jeffrey Combs of REANIMATOR fame adopts a combination Polish/Irish accent, but it's good to see this unusual actor at work; Lin Shaye is demonic as the scorned Dr. Crowley; and Megan Gallagher is convincing as the virologist. The pace is appropriate, and despite its many implausibilities, I found myself involved in the film.
Contagion
Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
  • One of a contagion of bad movies...
 Contagion
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner , Megan Gallagher , Lin Shaye , Tom Wright , and Dan Lauria
Director: John Murlowski
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0000AZT71
Release Date: 2004-08-17

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars One of a contagion of bad movies..........2004-03-27

An incoherent plot, a predictable ending, a shoddy script, and terrible acting are the symptoms of this - a hopelessly cliched movie about a demented doctor and her sidekick plotting to release an previously-unknown (yeah, right) strain of Ebola into the general population (which just happens to have mutated its DNA to become airborne - no Ebola virus has, in fact, ever done this - or ever will).

It starts with the president getting shot with a dart containing the Ebola strain, and ends with the cure being found by a brilliant, attractive doctor (who just happens to have fallen for the president) in the nick of time, before the quarantined hospital (and possibly about five miles around - not to mention the large area affected by radioactive fallout and permanently-altered weather patterns...) is destroyed by a 60 kiloton 'inversion' (a new type of bomb, or just a cheap gimmick to explain away the disctinct lack of actual research that went into the making of this movie?) bomb.

Firstly, would any president actually order a 60 KT nuclear weapon to be detonated on US soil, for whatever reason? Possibly not. Secondly, if the Ebola strain had never been seen before, it seems just a little bit too much of a coincidence that in the exact same hospital is a kid who happends to have contracted the exact same strain of Ebola in Africa - meaning enough vaccine can be synthesised from his blood to save everyone. Hmmm... Thirdly, it seems as if the only thing protecting the US from a biological terrorist attack is the president, the army (headed by a general who seems to hate his commander-in-chief - at least, until the end of the movie, when the two make their peace in the true spirit of American heroism), and the Secret Service, who actually can't even search the hospital where the presdient has been quarantined (allowing the insane doctor who created the virus to set up base in the basement). Oh well, maybe the CDC, FEMA, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, Pentagon, Vice President, police, Office of Emergency Planning, or anyone else, just aren't equipped to deal with this sort of thing...

In a word: absolute trash, a made-for-TV movie that seems to have been produced with a $10 budget and written by someone who had not idea about what they were writing, or how to actually write a (half-decent) movie. Give this one a miss - trust me.
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    Starring: Peter Gallagher
    Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
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    Release Date: 2005-11-01

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