Catagion-Review

            Average touches, sneeze, grabs, coughs, shakes, sips, and rubs lead to the beginning of an epidemic respiratory deadly virus. With the virus starting in Hong Kong and traveling to the US and other countries, departments like the CDC, struggle to find vaccine because they do not know what the virus is or where it comes from. After weeks and months go by with millions of people dead and more dying every day, survivors become desperate with violently looting stores and homeowner’s houses. A blogger declares that the government has found a vaccine and is hiding it to use on their loved ones and plan to capitalize it to the rest of the world. Is the blogger right? Is the virus a conspiracy? Is the military behind it with the constant testing for a deadly weapon against the enemy? Will the human race go instinct? Review: 

            I didn’t see this film in the theaters because the trailer basically told me the whole movie and I would find it a bore to watch. I was right. It was all about people getting sick and die, and then the government looked for a vaccine while the world goes into chaos, blah, blah, blah. A scene that stood out to me (which is shown in a trailer) is when Thomas Emhoff (Matt Damon) learns that his wife just died from the virus, yet he doesn’t show any emotion, not anger or sadness or pity. He just stood there looking at the doctor dumbfounded and slow-minded. I wasn’t into the wife’s character and I felt more sadness for her then her husband, not a good move for a film. This whole movie was basically like a science documentary because all I kept hearing were one too many science terms of the virus doing this and doing that, boring. I understand that the CDC and other departments like them have to analyze and investigate stuff and have to use that type of language but I only need so much to understand the concept. This is supposed to be a movie not a viral documentary. As for the cast, yet again, there were too many A-listers in one movie. At least this time, no more tried to steal the spotlight with overacting. The characters just seem to pop in and out like when you first find Waldo but lose him a second later, not relevant at all. I don’t approve of the script as it was bland and dull, the acting was forced and boring and the scenery looked like a Hollywood set. All in all, I will not see this film again.