Steven Soderbergh Contagion Movie Review

Staring:Matt Damon as Thomas Emhoff,Marion Cotillard as Dr. Leonora Orantes,Kate Winslet as Dr. Erin Mears.Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Ellis Cheever.Jude Law as Alan Krumwiede,Gwyneth Paltrow as Beth Emhoff,Bryan Cranston as Lyle Haggerty,Jennifer Ehle as Dr. Ally Hextall,Elliott Gould as Dr. Ian Sussman,Sanaa Lathan as Aubrey Cheever,John Hawkes,Demetri Martin,Jillian Armenante,Monique Gabriela Curnen as Lorraine Vasquez
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Story: Contagion is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film has an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet. It premiered on September 3, 2011 at the 68th Venice Film Festival and was publicly released on September 9, 2011 in the United States, Canada, Italy, and several other territories.
Analysis: It's been a long time since Steven Soderbergh has done something on the scale of "Traffic" and where that got into the inner workings of the drug trade, "Contagion" follows the passage of a virus from one person to another until it explodes into an epidemic leaving thousands and millions dead.
It begins with Gwyneth Paltrow's Beth Emhoff as she returns from a business retreat in Hong Kong with what appears to be the flu. Days later, she's dead as is her son, leaving her husband (Matt Damon), who is seemingly immune to the disease, trying to find answers. As people start dying off in other cities, government agencies like the CDC (Center for Disease Control) try to ascertain where it came from in order to develop a vaccine before more people die.