Side Effects (2013) - It Takes A Genius.

★★★☆☆

‘Side Effects’ opens at a crime scene with much blood on the floor of an apartment. Intriguing? Yes. It’s also got a whole lot of surprises for you near the end, so try to stick around till the truth is finally revealed. The prerequisite is, however, you mustn’t be so clever of an audience. Just go flow with the plot. Don’t be predicting anything. Then you’ll be shocked, but not really convinced after all that Jude Law’s Dr. Banks could be that determined, calm and brilliant, or like it’s said in the film, be of such a genius to be able to solve an almost perfect puzzle set up by other geniuses. He’s indeed more like an intimidating detective than an ordinary psychiatrist, especially when he starts to intentionally stir up mistrust between the criminal minds. I doubt if there’s a genius like that in life.

Like it or not, everything has a side effect on you if you go too far for it. Say, money can keep us alive in such a materialistic world we live in, but it, too, can get us in peril, anguish, fear, and agony or even killed if we ask for more of it than we’re supposed to take. And guess what the side effect is of not believing so? You’ll end up either in jail or an asylum. That’s all hell, basically!