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Best movie of this year hands down!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Lack of good storyline.

'Side Effects (2013)' takes around an hour to start to show its true colours, with its two halves separated by a gradual yet distinct shift in perspective. When it becomes the twisty psychological thriller it was always intended to be, it is much more entertaining and its third act is marked by an almost nasty sense of entrapment as our new protagonist wrangles the situation to his advantage, constantly skirting the edge of likeability as he deals with a character we were previously asked to heavily empathise with. In the end, the floaty direction, quietly delivered dialogue and almost dream-like editing come together to form a nearly comatose, sleepy feel that is intentional (to mirror the drug-riddled life of the first half's focal character) but should have been shed when our perspective was shifted to that of the psychiatrist. The direction never keeps up with the story, in the sense that it continues to feel hazy despite the doctor's clear and increasingly erratic demeanour, which creates an odd divide between the technical and the conceptual. Alongside this, the plot and its various revelations aren't played as a puzzle to be unravelled but, rather, as separate blindsiding reveals, which makes a second viewing almost identical to the first, equally enjoyable but devoid of any details that could hint at what's to come or enhance the experience in any way, which is a missed opportunity. It's also probably one of the most forgettable, yet decent, films I've ever seen. 7/10

"Side Effects" is about Emily Taylor, whose husband gets out of jail. But, she gets depressed. Herefor she goes to a doctor called John Banks. After they meet, everything starts to go hill, and the doctor gets involved in things he didn't want to...This movie is directed by Steven Soderbergh. He has directed some good movies, "Traffic" for example, but also some bad ones like "Haywire", that movie was just laughable, even the fight scenes. I've just seen a bit of that movie and it was funny as heck. But let me tell you something about this movie. This movie is one of his good ones. He did a fantastic job at directing it, and I really like his style. The cinematography was also fantastic. Every shot looked pretty. This wasn't only done by the cameramen, of course, this also came thanks to the wonderful director. Als the color choices helped with this. The use of focus was also fantastic. In the scene where John tells Emily that she get's some kind of drug in her system, to test if she's lying. Well, in that scene it's used very good, it gives you the view that Emily would have had; everything feels like it's fading away, yet the thing you focus on is still there. The soundtrack, done by Thomas Newman. Props to him, because he made every tense scene become more tense, and the feel of the movie really got created by the music. The editing too was great. I very much liked the switch when the car hit the wall in the beginning of the movie. It felt abrupt, but gave you a little shock, and again, the camera, lighting and coloring were great to in this scene.The acting overall was good. The main character of "Side Effects" is, like I said, Emily Taylor. A girl with a depression, as us is told in the beginning of the movie. Emily was played by Rooney Mara. A great actress overall, but in this movie she really sells it. She was scary near the end, how emotionless, yet powerful she was. Her character was very intriguing and interesting. She was one of my favorite characters. Rooney was fantastic. But around the middle of the movie the protagonist changes, and now the doctor becomes the main character. This is John Banks. He was played by Jude Law. I haven't seen a lot of his movies, but by his performance in this movie alone I can say without a doubt that he is one fantastic actor. I actually liked him more than Rooney, and I think that he acted way better too. He was in fact the best actor in this movie, in my opinion. Channing Tatum played the husband of Emily. He is one of the problems i have with "Side Effects". His character wasn't well developed at all. But more on that later. His acting was fine. The acting capability of Tatum isn't great, but this was good for him. Another bigger role was played by Catherine Zeta-Jones. She played the first psychiatrist where Emily went to. She was good too. The supporting cast was also quiet good. There were some exceptions that weren't great, but they didn't really have an impact on my viewing experience. Just someone I want to mention in the part of my review is the actress of Johns wife. She was very good, and that's why I think I should mention her. She was played by Vinessa Shaw.The writing/script was the star of this movie. It was one well written movie, I can tell you that. The dialogue was interesting to listen to, and you were wondering what would happen next. The story was also constructed very well. You were continuously guessing what was really going on, sometimes I thought that John might have mental problems himself. It was a very fun experience. Another thing that I liked, was the tension. In most movies they try to create this with shaky cam, to cover up the bad movie, or they try to do it with a bunch of action. In this movie, though, they do it with a fantastic script. The directing and music of course help with this to, but mostly the things they say move the story, and make you sit on the edge of your seat. The characters were well developed, and we get to know them through the story, but only one character doesn't get developed that much, and this is Channing Tatums character. He gets killed of in the middle of the movie, by Emily. You were supposed to be sad that he died, but you didn't get to know him well enough. I was shocked in that scene though, not thanks to the death, but thanks to the killer, because it was very unexpected. The twist in the ending was also fun, and well thought true. And before I forget to mention, the rest of the characters were in fact well developed, only Tatums wasn't. Just to be clear.Thanks for reading this review. It was a very good movie, except for Tatums character, and that costs the movie half a point for me.9.5/10

Side EffectsEmily Taylor is a young lady that becomes severely depressed after her husband Martin gets out of jail. She starts showing episodes of emotional suicide attempts, which leads her to meet Dr. Jonathan Banks, who ends up becoming her psychiatrist. Dr. Banks prescribes several different depressant medication that does not work well for Emily, and after Emily asked about a specific medication, Dr. Banks consults Emily's previous doctor, which helped and gave him more confidence to prescribe Alixa. The plot of the film gets stronger when the medication starts to show severe side effects, with episodes of an unusual side effect that makes her to sleepwalking. Due to that condition, Emily ends up killing her husband. With this difficult situation, Dr. Banks career is at risk, and Emily ends up in a mental hospital. After Emily ends up in a mental hospital, Dr. Banks starts to investigate Emily's case in order to clean up his name, and what he finds out is a quite surprising sequences of manipulative and controlling situations that conducts to the tragedy of his life. Side effects is a thriller suspense drama movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film shows an aggravating situation that is very well known in the USA, depression. The film shows aspects of a normal life that can be very surprising at the end. "The early scenes of "Side Effects" are fairly spellbinding as Soderbergh quietly but effectively puts viewers into the anxious, jagged mindset off someone who feels out of sync with the world around her and helpless to do anything about it. At the same time, he and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (who previously collaborated on "The Informant!," and "Contagion") offer a cuttingly satirical glimpse at an over medicated world in which doctors serve as paid mouthpieces for pharmaceutical companies and everyone has a recommendation for some pill or another that will presumably smooth over pesky traces of everyday existence." (Side Effects Movie Review & Film Summary).It is important to remember that Soderbergh touched an important fact that faces a lot of people around the world. Not to mention the labs who make those type of prescriptions must have been not that happy with the information that was passed along to the movie. This film speaks about a life reality and it portraits perfectly how depression work, even with a double personality Emily Taylor shows on the film.

There is a moment - perhaps 20 minutes into Steven Soderbergh's "Side Effects" - when it seems that we are watching a film which ponders on how society deems it desirable and necessary for basically well-meaning, morally virtuous and clever psychiatrists (such as Jude Law's character Jonathan Banks) to suggest radical changes in behaviour (and the possibility of the titular "side effects") - achieved using the highly lucrative output of (and under a degree of pressure imposed by) "Big Pharma", on the basis of perhaps just 45 minutes a week of contact with sad and confused and needy patients such as Emily Taylor (played by Rooney Mara).Given such a very challenging thesis, plus the acting talents of Mara (very convincing as the patient) and Law (who captures the film from the moment he appears), it seems that we have something highly interesting and thought-provoking to deal with. All the more so as things go wrong, and Dr Banks rapidly finds himself losing all the allies, reputation, stability and forms of support he thought he could take for granted - as rather a pillar of society. Pillar he may be, but resting on completely shifting sands.It thus comes as a minor annoyance to have that film and that content taken away once it has seemed to be introduced and established ... in the name of an also-interesting, but certainly lesser/more predictable conspiracy thriller plot in which the hitherto-minor character of second psychiatrist Dr Victoria Siebert (Catherine Zeta-Jones) suddenly comes much more to the fore.At that point none of the parties seen to be playing games with one another emerge as very much smelling of roses, and this leaves a surprisingly bitter taste.None of this takes away fully from a film that is intriguing and taut and interesting and well-acted throughout, if subject to the aforementioned mammoth change of plot direction that is certainly a bit of an acquired taste, and not altogether justified.