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Monday 29 July 2013

A THRILLER SIDE OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY WELL PLAYED!

For those of you who would see this blog and start dashing to the cinemas at the first sight of Channing Tatum (G. I Joe action guy, dancekid in Step Up, White house down hero...still not sure who I am talking about right? ok, the third guy from your left) and assume we are talking about an action movie which is normally filled with explosions and cars crashing and things flying (wonder why people see Vin Diesel's stunt in Fast and furious 6 as awesome, where he jumps of a car at impact in an attempt to catch Michelle Rodriguez...and SURVIVES) you will surely be mistaken. But there is one thing for sure, Side Effects?! One Word...Awesome! Not enough...WOW!!!

This Thriller Drama stars Jude Law as Dr. Jonathan Bank, a psychiatrist who is assigned to troubled Emily (Rooney Mara; Girl with the Dragon tattoo) after she drives her car into a concrete wall in a suicide attempt but agrees to her release from the hospital as long as she attends sessions with him on a regular basis.

Emily tries a series of anti-depressant medications, but none of them works. Jonathan contacts Emily's previous psychiatrist, Victoria (Catherine Zeta Jones, wife of film legend Michael Douglas), who suggests that Jonathan puts Emily on a new drug called Ablixa. Jonathan is reluctant to put Emily on the experimental drug until she attempts suicide a second time by trying to jump onto a subway track. The medication works, enabling Emily to function normally besides occasional sleepwalking episodes, a side effect of the drug which led to the demise of Martin(Channing Tatum), Emily's husband who was released after serving a four-year prison sentence for insider trading. who she stabs to death while sleepwalking, and the twist begins from here which involved all actors in a crazy web of controversies.

Side Effects has received mostly positive reviews from critics one of which is an 84% approval rating by Rotten Tomatoes, with the film given an average score of 7.4/10. Impressive you may say! Side Effects was released February 8, 2013 and placed number 3 in the box office that weekend, earning US$10 million (well...some of the best movies never really earned much sha).

Side Effects is a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film stars Jude Law, Rooney Mara,Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Channing Tatum. The film concerns the ramifications of an event following a young woman being prescribed antidepressant drugs, in particular the fictional new drug Ablixa (alipazone).
If you like to be entertained and indulged on a critical and intellectual level, then Side Effects should be added to your must watch To do list. So start saving your money for cinema tickets because I promise you its worth the watch.

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