Directed By: Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike)
Starring: Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Rating: R for sexuality, nudity, violence and language
Run Time: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Synopsis: Emily Taylor (Mara) has battled depression ever since her husband, Martin (Tatum), went to prison for insider trading. Martin is finally released from prison and Emily attempts suicide, which gets her sent to Dr. Jonathan Banks (Law) who prescribes her a new drug called Ablixa. When Emily has a terrible reaction to the drug, it throws everyone's lives up in the air.
REVIEW
Andrew:
Hello readers! Last night Sarah and I saw Steven Soderbergh’s latest (and
last?) film, one that came out this past Friday, called Side Effects starring
Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Channing Tatum. It’s a movie
that we didn’t really know a whole lot about going in to it. We’d seen the ads
and trailer, we knew it was about pharmaceuticals and turns into a thriller of
sorts, but other than that we didn’t know a whole lot about it going in.
Sarah, what did you think about Side Effects going in to
it, and what do you think of it now that we’ve seen it?
Sarah:
Well I expected it to be more of a traditional thriller I think, but one that
felt like a Soderbergh film, if that makes sense. I was kind of apprehensive
about it because I was thinking the trailer actually made it look more like
Mara’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, one that was suspenseful like
that.
But I actually didn’t like this one. You know, Soderbergh’s
fingerprints are definitely all over this movie, with his stylistic choices and
his characters, but…the actual storyline didn’t really do much for me.
