Contagion

« A star-studded disaster thriller that's also got enough talent to hit home, Contagion is satisfying and spooky and a total thrill to watch. »

« Peut-être pas la grande fresque attendue, mais un portrait qui glace le sang et qui tient en haleine. »

« Le thriller de Soderbergh, en dépit d'une mise en scène maîtrisée et d'un montage très ramassé, ne possède pas la puissance dramatique espérée, certains développements s'avérant un peu trop extravagants et d'autres demeurant inaboutis. »

« Cela dit, on ne peut pas dire que Contagion soit une expérience plaisante, mais elle en est une très bien exécutée : tendue, hyper intelligente, tragique et fortifiante et, à la fin, aussi émotive que terrifiante. »

« What Contagion lacks is a drama to connect to. It abandons so many storylines that we don't get involved in any of them, its resolutions arrive so suddenly that they barely register, and it is so rigorously unsentimental that sometimes you long for a scene where Shelley Winters has to swim for freedom. Instead, Soderbergh gives us images of empty offices, abandoned health clubs, closed malls. It's an intelligent thriller that is too intelligent to thrill. »

« As it is, Contagion is still a very effective and entertaining thriller. To me, something like this, which is all too plausible, is much more frightening than a traditional horror flick. »

« Soderbergh is usually masterful with ensemble casts, but the character arcs here fall flat, and only a few performances manage to inspire. »

« The film is most riveting in its early scenes, when Soderbergh's digital cameras locate germs everywhere - don't touch those peanuts! But after a blogger played by Jude Law starts spreading panic, all this germ procedural offers is the sight of people behaving badly, willing to do their worst to get first dibs on a vaccine. Sadly, that's no surprise. »

« Contagion, Steven Soderbergh's smart, spooky thriller about a thicket of contemporary plagues - a killer virus, rampaging fear, an unscrupulous blogger - is as ruthlessly effective as the malady at its cool, cool center. »