It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

An impressive film, with a unique storyline. It's possible this film draws a lot of attention because Channing Tatum is part of the cast, but this is a Jude Law film all the way. Clever, controversially topical and holds you to the very end.

Initially this film seems like a fairly straight indictment of an overly commercial drugs industry as a woman on anti-depressants kills her husband shortly after his release from prison for insider trading. As the story unfolds, though, the issues become more nuanced. Rooney Mara puts in a good performance as the depressed wife, Emily Taylor. Jude Law is also strong in the part of the struggling doctor whose life is thrown into turmoil after prescribing the new drug and who cannot quite accept that all is as it seems. Once the film is over, though, and the plot played through to its conclusion, things seem somehow unsatisfactory. The characters don't feel quite right and inconsistencies niggle in my mind. Ultimately, I feel a little cheated. Could things really have happened like this? I'm not convinced.

First of all, this movie is fun too watch. Jude Law, Jones and the other actors do a fine job and make you guess to the end what is going on.That said, this movie basically amounts to revenge porn. The movie writes about depravity, but also seems to make a point of making part of it. The take-home message: doing evil unto evil is the best choice, and can and possibly should be enjoyed.Ultimately, there are no winners here, not the movie, nor the characters in it. But that doesn't make it much less enjoyable to watch the charades and mindplays happening on screen.

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.