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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe romance may be risible, but the scenes of mass panic and political desperation are slickly disturbing.
- 50VarietyMaggie LeeVarietyMaggie LeeThe story flatlines as the crisis escalates, falling prey to pedestrian human drama and improbable conspiracy subplots.
- 40Time Out LondonTime Out LondonDirector Sung-su Kim doesn’t spend long explaining how the heck this ravenous form of avian flu has come about, concentrating instead on the chaos as the epidemic spirals out of control.
- Coughs and sneezes do indeed spread diseases in this amusingly feverish thriller, a Korean attempt to take back some of those lurgies let loose by Soderbergh's colder-blooded "Contagion."
- 40Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramThe result? Not so much "World War Z" as World War Zzzz.