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."
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The result? Not so much "World War Z" as World War Zzzz.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
The romance may be risible, but the scenes of mass panic and political desperation are slickly disturbing.
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The story flatlines as the crisis escalates, falling prey to pedestrian human drama and improbable conspiracy subplots.