Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Side Effects (2013)
Steven
Soderbergh’s (apparent) final big-screen bow takes on big pharma and the need
for Americans to dope up to get through the day, be it anti-depressants,
anxiety pills, uppers, downers, or whatever. And what of the “Side Effects”?
Limp libido? Exhaustion? Murderous sleep-walking fit? That’s the ticket here as a
married couple (Channing Tatum and Rooney Mara) rocked by hubby’s prison stint
for Wall Street sins are reunited only to see the wife slip off her plates after
an apparent suicide attempt. Caught in the middle of all this, taking money
from on high and prescribing pills to the low, is Jude Law as a psychiatrist,
who begins Boy Scout and becomes … less so. I can’t give away anything more, because
Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns (both of “Contagion”) take a turn that hit
me, well, like a drug at first -- euphoric love, but then a quick and lowly
crash as I contemplated all that I saw. How not to spill the pills? Let me say
this: The ugly ridiculous denouncement is Family Research Council approved. Pure
1950s. Got it? Mara is great. Tatum, ehh. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays another head
shrink, and Pacinos the scenery. B-
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