Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Ehirerapp Waste of time

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Lili I'm not one to ever give bad reviews on movies as there are normally parts of the film I enjoy. I came across this film thinking it would be interesting to see what side effects the drugs her psychiatric gave her would do.I was interested in this film for around 30 minutes and it started to drag on making it a little boring. When I got half way I was on the verge to giving up on it but I don't stop watching films in case it gets interesting at some point but unfortunately that was not the case. I wouldn't recommend this movie and I'm very surprised this film has quite a high rating... Maybe its because Channing Tatum was in it because i don't see why else.

smoke0 ..instead of a ably 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.

Robert J. Maxwell "Side Effects." A depressed woman sees a psychiatrist, is given a new drug, murders her husband while in an apparent trance, and finds herself alone in a heap of trouble.I don't know if that sounds promising to you but it sounded like an onrushing express train of clichés to me. The poor woman, helpless and screaming, booted around and dragged through an indifferent court and a vicious mental hospital. Nobody to turn to. Screams, tears, condemnations, vilification by the press and former friends until -- at last -- a friendly face turns up, an understanding man of some repute and authority, preferably handsome and rich, and then -- Sob.It's not like that at all. I was only able to catch about twenty minutes of it but anyone thinking of watching it should not expect a Lifetime Movie or a typical woman-in-jep story. I won't get into the plot further because it gets tricky.Rooney Mara doesn't inspire confidence at first glance. In the excerpts I saw, she seems stuck in a single groove -- the sullen victim. Yet, when the occasion permitted, she lightened like an incandescent bulb and got the point of the scene across with minimal effort -- a keen comment or a knowing smile.The movie depends on her but she gets good from Catherine Zeta-Jones as a voluptuous psychiatrist on whom one would like to practice transference to its fullest extent, and from Channing Tatum as the perplexed husband.I avoided it for months on television. Now I'll look forward to viewing it intact.

billcr12 Rooney Mara is Emily Taylor, a depressed graphic artist who is married to Martin(Channing Tatum), a recently released from prison Wall Street con artist. She comes upon a psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks(Jude Law) after a suicide attempt via car crash into a wall at a parking garage. He prescribes some anti depressants with the side effect of sleep walking. This has unfortunate consequences for her newly jail free husband. What follows is an interesting series of twists and turns which feel like an extended Twilight Zone episode. Law and Rooney are excellent in their roles and I did not guess the ending. The drug industry takes a well deserved hit for their irresponsible actions regarding overused and obscenely profitable medications. A solid 7.5/10.