Monday, July 1, 2013

Side Effects 2013

Side Effects     Emily and Martin Taylor are a young married couple.  They seem to have it all and it’s the life of Emily’s dreams until Martin is sent to prison on an insider trading charge for four years.  Everything falls apart, they lose all they have worked for and their charmed life.   Emily starts seeing Dr. Victoria Siebert for depression until she moves back to New York to wait out the four years.  When Martin is released, Emily begins seeing Dr. Jonathan Banks because of a suicide attempt.  She starts taking one medication after another for relief and because of side effects.
     The first three-quarters of this film are very good but it’s a big letdown at the final quarter and I didn’t like the end.  It seems like a run out of ideas ending or get this over quickly.  I’m not sure how the ending could be better but it needed to be better than this one?  3* (This movie is OK)

107 min, Mystery directed by Steven Soderbergh with Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Polly Draper, Ann Dowd.

Note:  Blockbuster 3*, imdb 7.2 out of 10, 84% critic 74% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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