bogdan1906 Did not like the double twisted end , but it is a pretty good mistery movie

smoke0 ..instead of a passably acceptable timewaster. It's a shame the director, so well known for emotionally involving films, decided to distance the characters and the story itself so far from the audience that the film is just an unemotional and uninvolving letdown.By the time Side Effects gets where it should have gone much earlier, the only interesting character has so little screen time that she seems as if she is in a different, better film, like Malice or Final Analysis, as those films are practically textbooks on how to make this type of movie into a genuine genre thriller.See it for what it could have been, and then wonder at the missed opportunity and how a different director could have handled such a great, twisty mystery.

Shweta Mayekar I didn't know when I first started watching this that it would leave me scratching my head over the scenes from the first half of the film. The twist in the movie was not at all predictable and hits you like a train. I was happily surprised by the way the plot played out. What started out as a movie about drugs and their effects on the mind and court hearings, (all a bit drab to tell you the truth), ended up with me increasing the volume and repeating scenes to make sure I hadn't missed anything, even a bit of dialogue. A good smart film, with good writing. Decent acting by Jude Law damn, Rooney Mara has once again proved she can keep her worth. Take my advice, sit up straight and watch this movie exactly when you think you are losing interest.

lidianusa 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.