Contagion Review

I just got back from seeing Contagion on September 14, 2011. This movie was abysmal. There was an all star cast and I like four of the main actors in the movie, but I hated the story. Basically, a virus spreads around the world and health organizations scramble to find vaccines and things of that nature. Honestly, Jude Law's part of the journalist raising inquiries was probably the only redeeming part of this movie (He should have been taking inquiries of why he decided to sign up for this), though Marion Cotillard is awesome and she did well with the crap she had to work with. People just keep dying left and right and you have no idea how half the people became infected. There's alot of random plotholes and the ending was horrible. I thought that was how the movie should have started and at the end everyone in the theater said HUH? That's it. Basically, its a virus contracted from bats and pigs, so basically trying to instill that whole swine flu thing. Matt Damon just tried to protect his daughter from contracting the disease and he somehow was immune to everything going on, but you never see the vaccine he took before the epidemic spread so either he had the H1N1 virus, but how could it prevent him from contracting the new disease. I like Damon, but somehow his wife played by Paltrow was cheating on him and they randomly just threw that in. Even though there is a contagious subplot involved, the cheating aspect just does not belong in this movie. The real ending should have been side effects coming from the vaccine, or a new stream that develops if they wanted to make a sequel. PLEASE DON'T!! Anyway, this is a definite 1/5 and you must avoid this movie at all costs before you contract a disease from the terrible story unfolding before your eyes. I did note the positives of Jude Law and Marion Cotillard. However, the best part was The Dark Knight Rises trailer I got to see.