A painfully slow progression and overall lack of substance taint the entertainment factor in 2011 film Contagion. The film follows the development of a deadly illness as it spreads worldwide causing incontrollable chaos. Several inter-connecting stories are shown to display the many different aspects of a crippling epidemic. However this basically created a lack in Freytag’s Pyramid, (the standard introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution format). The Emhoff family’s part in the film’s plot is rather important for some time but after a certain point, it becomes nearly insignificant. Its prolonged existence just drags the movie out longer than necessary with its irrelevant events. Major healthcare figureheads and several lab researchers occupy much of the film with unresolved arguments, and vague scientific results regaurding the bacteria’s origin and cure. Neither of which are even revealed until the very end. Rating 3 out of 5 stars, Contagion was pretty much a disappointment.