Side effects certainly feels like a high quality though run of the mill psychological drama.
I will skip the self indulgent refined and sophisticated critical analysis and instead point to one overlooked glaring problem with the plot, not just a goof, but a serious error that contaminates the entire film.
I'm shocked a director of Soderbergh's caliber could have let it slip.
How does Dr Banks ( Jude Law ) manage to conduct his own investigation and consult with a former patient from whom he became embroiled in an major ethics scandal that all but stripped him of his license to practice?
In fact, it gets to the point midway where he is so desperate he begs a former colleague to prescribe him medication?
There's no way in any reality that a consulting physician found negligent in treating a patient which results in a murder would be suddenly allowed to be reinstated as that patients chief physician no questions asked?!
How did that slip by? In any case of malpractice, impropriety, and so on the professional relationship is terminated immediately!
It's so outrageous I doubt the writers of such B grade crime dramas like Jake and the Fatman would allow such an egregious plot mistake.
Other than that, it's super.
I will skip the self indulgent refined and sophisticated critical analysis and instead point to one overlooked glaring problem with the plot, not just a goof, but a serious error that contaminates the entire film.
I'm shocked a director of Soderbergh's caliber could have let it slip.
How does Dr Banks ( Jude Law ) manage to conduct his own investigation and consult with a former patient from whom he became embroiled in an major ethics scandal that all but stripped him of his license to practice?
In fact, it gets to the point midway where he is so desperate he begs a former colleague to prescribe him medication?
There's no way in any reality that a consulting physician found negligent in treating a patient which results in a murder would be suddenly allowed to be reinstated as that patients chief physician no questions asked?!
How did that slip by? In any case of malpractice, impropriety, and so on the professional relationship is terminated immediately!
It's so outrageous I doubt the writers of such B grade crime dramas like Jake and the Fatman would allow such an egregious plot mistake.
Other than that, it's super.