Side Effects


Side Effects is a thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily's psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.

This was a really good movie with good acting across the board.  There was a great build up of suspense and the whole side effects of taking these kinds of pills was a realistic concern that was tapped well.  I can't say too much without giving away too much but there were good twists and the story was paced very well.  Side rant . . . . . Catherine Zeta Jones has had two really bad plastic surgeries.  She has something done with the end of her lips that make them pull up so she looks kind of like the Joker and her eyebrow lifts make it look like she is constantly giving The Rock's people's eyebrow.  Very werid and I clearly couldn't stop focusing on that.  Okay - I'm done now.  Had to put that out there.  Wait - there was another . . . . and it's one I've done before.  Why does Steven Soderberg insist on all his movies having a yellow tint to them?  It wasn't there at first and then showed up and stayed for the rest of the movie.  It's as if someone peed all over the lens and it was then filmed with that stain on there.  Okay.  Now I'm really done.  Feel much better now.  Thanks.

I would definitely recommend that people check this movie out.  It was a very tight and factually based story about a major issue in society with all the pill popping and how it can all be manipulated and what not.