Review of Side Effects

The movie is well acted and directed abd very provocative. But the ending was like the last east west construction of the leg of transcontinental railroad meeting only to find they are a mile apart.

I get that a woman conspires with a shrink to tank a pharmecuetical company and make bank on the stock options by killing her husband while under the "side effects of the drug.

There's a nice turn of the tables where the disgraced and manipulated character played by Jude law is able to tke control of the situation.

Here's what did not meet up. The police knew it was all a ruse between a patient and a doctor. So why does the patient who faked her illness have to keep pretending she is undergoing treatment when they have her with her lady doctor confessing they planned it all? Then Jude Laws doctor character proceeds to send her back to the asylum as if the terms of the medical plan still apply...when they already know it was all a put on?

So she gets committed back to the asylum when everybody already knows she should go to jail with her partner in crime and lover for premeditated murder.

Sloppy resolve tht made cheapened the movie.