This film has a gripping premise: the idea of a deadly virus, with 100% mortality, getting loose in the United States. During the first half, the film is involved with first discovering the outbreak, at two different locations, then trying to track down how it's transmitted and trying to find the vector or host that brought it into the country. All the medical drama is engrossing, and the actors are excellent.
Then it becomes a military cover-up story. We get some ridiculous helicopter combat flying, a bomb that's going to be dropped on innocent civilians to vaporize the town and eradicate the evidence, and Dustin Hoffman pleading to the flight crew over the radio to do the right thing and not drop the bomb. Even the military cover-up would have been OK if the storyline had been more plausible and not tried to make the ending an action adventure. It just felt like someone decided the movie needed an exciting ending and threw a bunch of nonsense in at the end.
Then it becomes a military cover-up story. We get some ridiculous helicopter combat flying, a bomb that's going to be dropped on innocent civilians to vaporize the town and eradicate the evidence, and Dustin Hoffman pleading to the flight crew over the radio to do the right thing and not drop the bomb. Even the military cover-up would have been OK if the storyline had been more plausible and not tried to make the ending an action adventure. It just felt like someone decided the movie needed an exciting ending and threw a bunch of nonsense in at the end.