Side Effects(2013)- User Reviews

A life in slow motion

star22

A NYC woman lives her life in slow motion going through her days and nights as if in a trance.Her sleep walking symptoms and her lethargy cause her to seek a doctors care and prescription drugs that she dosen't take.
One night a crime is committed in the apartment she shares with her ex-con spouse. But she says she can't recall any of it.
The movie hobbles along ona psychotic tract suffering from low self esteem,unsure if its a medical drama,sci-fi snippit or sheer fantasy.And the actors drag too themselves along in a boring manner.Really what is the point of the movie. The plot unravels and splits to become less intense,less interesting and a crime scene laden with more questions than it answers.
The patient here is used like a ping pong ball between her two doctors but then outsmarts the doctors at every turn. Are they as much to blame for prescribing her dangerous side effect drugs?
Grade C-
Sim--"one flew the Cukoo nest"