Starring Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Vinessa Shaw. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.★★★½
No one is as crisp a filmmaker as Soderbergh. I love that now that he's doing these less ambitious projects, they're still every bit as professionally done as any "prestige" pic he might want to work on.
The 50-year-old director has threatened retirement a few times, and I hope that's not the case. He's working on a TV mini-series now starring Clive Owen as a doctor at a New York hopsital in the 1900's, but no more movies are on his plate.
This is a straightforward mystery and it plays like a novel. A young woman (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's Rooney Mara) with anxiety and depression issues is waiting for her husband (Channing Tatum) to get his release from prison. He'd been in for insider trading, and they're ready to get their life back.
Mara goes to a doctor (Jude Law) and he prescribes a fairly new medicine on the market for her symptoms. But the prescription has some severe side effects. And it goes from there. It flows at a Hitchcockian pace, and there isn't a wasted scene anywhere.
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