Contagion (2011)

[Dave]

A tense disaster thriller that is also scientifically accurate? It sounds too good to be true.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15390209
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/

Some of the reviews say it is well acted but quite boring - anyone here seen it?

It is also a well-worn theme - Wiki's Epidemic Films list:

12 Monkeys (1995)
Absolon (2001)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Blindness (2008)
Cabin Fever (2003)
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
Carriers (1998)
Carriers (2009)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Children of Men (2006)
Contagion (2001)
Contagious (1997)
Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Daybreakers (2010)
Doomsday (2008)
Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Epidemic (1987)
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
Flying Virus (2001)
The Happening (2008)
I Am Legend (2007)
I Am Omega (2007)
The Invasion (2007)
It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
The Last Man on Earth (1924)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Outbreak (1995)
The Omega Man (1971)
Pandora's Clock (1996)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Plague (1978)
Quarantine (2008)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Runaway Virus (2000)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Signs (2002)
Smallpox 2002 (2002)
Spill (1996)
SST: Death Flight (1977)
The Stand (1994)
Thirst (1998)
Virus (1980)
Virus (1981)
Virus (1999)
Virus 2 (1996 TV)
Voyage of Terror (1998)
Warning Sign (1985)
Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
Undead (2003)
Resident Evil(2002)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Zombieland (2009)
"28 Days Later" (2002)
"28 Weeks Later" (2007)

...but maybe it's time for a new film. I remember Outbreak being more serious, but the rest of the list are mainly Zombie films.

It is also being seen as Hollywood racist anti-Chinese propaganda - though it is a fact that most avian-human Flu emerge from places where animals are kept inside homes.

Quotes:
Alan Krumwiede: It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey.

 

[J Riff]

Haven't seen it yet, but suspect it will leave me cold. (<joke)

 

[Starbeast]

I don't want to see the trailers, I like surprises.

Parts of the movie were filmed near where I live.