"Side Effects" May Vary

Now, going into "Side Effects" everyone was expecting an action packed psychological thriller probably "Shutter Island" Esq. If those happened to be your expectations, you will sorely be disappointed. The film follows a psychiatrist in the center of a murder scandal with his patient committing murder. Pretty decent plot, the film lead to the audience to believe this would be a movie bashing the pharmaceutical business....but not so much. This movie really fucks with your morality. Once the real story behind the murder is revealed, and Jude Law's character goes insane trying to solve it....it makes you wonder, who am I rooting for? Am I rooting for Jude Law, who's morality lies in what image he needs to uphold, or are you rooting for the con-artists, involved in the financial trading? After seeing this movie, I was left unsettled....not by the acting or the cinematography (because it was well made), but by the story. If Steven Soderbergh was going for a morally ambiguous story...bravo sir, you have left my head reeling and induced a existentialist crisis.