I was browsing through my recorded movies to find something to watch this morning, and this was the one I picked. There are lots of big names and recognizable faces in this movie, and I hadn't seen it before.
It's really easy to sum up the plot of this movie. I'm calling it Covid: The Movie. Brief explanation if that isn't enough for you is a woman flies home from China. She's sick and dies. People around the world start to die, and it's important for the CDC and WHO to find out where it came from and how to stop it. The story is told from numerous viewpoints and from places all over the world.
The movie was a little heavy on the looting/crime aspect, but everything else seemed fairly accurate. Food supply woes, stocking up on water and hand sanitizer, and the movie even has the conspiracy guy who thinks he cured himself with a homeopathic remedy. The one guy commented his wife made him undress in the garage and sanitized everything, and that reminded me of when first responders and hospital workers would talk of when they'd go home after work during the pandemic.
They really crammed a lot into this movie. No scene was wasted since we were following so many characters on a global scale. I liked the camera work a lot. Especially at the beginning when they were keeping a shot on something a sick person touched. You knew what it meant, and it was ominous, and it's always been something that bothers me.
The other part I really liked was the end. I'm not going to spoil what it was, because it was just really clever. The taped version I had was 2 1/2 hours, but it flew (and I skipped commercials). I loved that they took the time to focus on some of the science involved in the identification of the virus and creation of a vaccine. I found that really interesting. The conspiracy nut was a little annoying, but I'd totally watch this again. Good Movie!
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