I think people were expecting some "ticking clock" thriller where the heroes rush to find the cure at the last minute and save the world from a super-plague. There'd be chases and dramatic lab scenes where the hero scientists rush against time. Except that's not how it would happen, if we were to experience a pandemic.
There wouldn't be some lone scientist who has the cure, we wouldn't be saved at the last minute, there wouldn't be some happy ending where we all breathe a sigh of relief...there would only be death and waiting.
This film does a pretty good job of capturing how a pandemic would happen, and how it would affect everyone. The movie tells the story through the eyes of various people; from a head doctor at the CDC, a representative from the WHO, to a middle class guy helplessly watching the events around him to a blogger who thinks he has the answer.
The movie captures the anxiety and fear that would/will grip the world as we face a pandemic. Despite all our knowledge and technology, we are still vulnerable to disease, and this movie captures that. It also captures the human element. How would the world react? Sure, early on we might be civil and brave in the face of the disease, but as the pandemic stretches on...and the death toll rises...survival becomes the paramount driver for every one of us.
If you're looking for an action-packed thriller, this isn't it. You will however be hooked as you don't know which of the main characters will make it (not all of them do).
By the way, we are long overdue for a pandemic...the last big one was the Spanish Influenza of 1918-1919...
There wouldn't be some lone scientist who has the cure, we wouldn't be saved at the last minute, there wouldn't be some happy ending where we all breathe a sigh of relief...there would only be death and waiting.
This film does a pretty good job of capturing how a pandemic would happen, and how it would affect everyone. The movie tells the story through the eyes of various people; from a head doctor at the CDC, a representative from the WHO, to a middle class guy helplessly watching the events around him to a blogger who thinks he has the answer.
The movie captures the anxiety and fear that would/will grip the world as we face a pandemic. Despite all our knowledge and technology, we are still vulnerable to disease, and this movie captures that. It also captures the human element. How would the world react? Sure, early on we might be civil and brave in the face of the disease, but as the pandemic stretches on...and the death toll rises...survival becomes the paramount driver for every one of us.
If you're looking for an action-packed thriller, this isn't it. You will however be hooked as you don't know which of the main characters will make it (not all of them do).
By the way, we are long overdue for a pandemic...the last big one was the Spanish Influenza of 1918-1919...