Side Effects (2013)
Country: US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum
Synopsis:
A psychiatrist takes on the case of a suicidal woman whose husband has just been released from jail for insider dealing. The drug he prescribes on the recommendation of a colleague has lethal side effects and he begins to suspect foul play.
Review:
It's the old Vertigo/Basic Instinct ploy: a professional with an exploitable backstory is used as pawn in a nefarious plot, and his life collapses around him. Take away the pharmacological trappings, and that is essentially what we have here. It's put together with the director's trademark slickness, though with some poorly lit interiors and less than happy resolution: the wife and stepson's roles were never very well written in anyway. At the time it was said to be Soderbergh's farewell to big screen film making, and an underwhelming one.
Country: US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum
Synopsis:
A psychiatrist takes on the case of a suicidal woman whose husband has just been released from jail for insider dealing. The drug he prescribes on the recommendation of a colleague has lethal side effects and he begins to suspect foul play.
Review:
It's the old Vertigo/Basic Instinct ploy: a professional with an exploitable backstory is used as pawn in a nefarious plot, and his life collapses around him. Take away the pharmacological trappings, and that is essentially what we have here. It's put together with the director's trademark slickness, though with some poorly lit interiors and less than happy resolution: the wife and stepson's roles were never very well written in anyway. At the time it was said to be Soderbergh's farewell to big screen film making, and an underwhelming one.
Country: US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum
Synopsis:
A psychiatrist takes on the case of a suicidal woman whose husband has just been released from jail for insider dealing. The drug he prescribes on the recommendation of a colleague has lethal side effects and he begins to suspect foul play.
Review:
It's the old Vertigo/Basic Instinct ploy: a professional with an exploitable backstory is used as pawn in a nefarious plot, and his life collapses around him. Take away the pharmacological trappings, and that is essentially what we have here. It's put together with the director's trademark slickness, though with some poorly lit interiors and less than happy resolution: the wife and stepson's roles were never very well written in anyway. At the time it was said to be Soderbergh's farewell to big screen film making, and an underwhelming one.