A Cure For Wellness2017
A Cure For Wellness (2017)
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Critic Consensus: A Cure for Wellness boasts a surfeit of visual style, but it's wasted on a derivative and predictable story whose twists, turns, and frights have all been more effectively dealt before.
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Cast
as Lockhart
as Dr. Heinrich Volmer
as Hannah
as Hollis
as Enrico
as Deputy Director
as Caretaker
as Nurse, Nurse Greta
as Funeral Director
as Mr. Wilson
as Pembroke
as Nurse
as Pieter The Vet
as Josh
as Carl
as Prim Technician
as Frank
as Wallstreet Broker
as Doctor Barlock
as Lockhart's Mother
as Franc Hill
as Morris
as Humphrey
as Ron Nair
as Wall Street Banker
as Dr. Brennan
as Orderly
as Water Trainer
as Orderly
as Technician
as Reassuring Technician
as Threatening Attendant
as Wedding Guest
as Blonde Orderly
as Orderly
as Wedding Guest
as Ron NYC Driver
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Critic Reviews for A Cure For Wellness
All Critics (213) | Top Critics (58) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (123)
The problems lie in an excessively lengthy runtime resulting in repetition of scares before an utterly bizarre finale.
Verbinski's gothic psychological thriller is absorbing. It unfolds in a maze even Theseus would not escape. It will keep you guessing until the almost unbelievable ending.
If Verbinski had brought pace, the film might have worked, but he takes an eternity, then throws it all to the winds with a finale that's remarkable silly, even in this fanciful neck of the woods.
An absurdly over-long run time allows the film to keep on answering questions that we never asked.
All the style and slithering horror is not enough to glue together a plot that favours atmosphere over coherence and overstays its welcome by at least 30 minutes.
[The] poor ending felt like a betrayal, since it wrenches A Cure for Wellness fully out of its original genre and into melodrama.
Audience Reviews for A Cure For Wellness
A Cure for Wellness is most certainly not going to be for everyone. It's spectacularly, deliberately, uncomfortably ugly (albeit, in a bizarrely beautiful way). It's story is flawed, it's long (two and a half hours all told), it's slow, some of its setups don't evolve into payoffs, it's not half as mysterious or clever as it might think it is, and it can't even hold to its own mythology 100%. But I loved it.
Super Reviewer
The visuals are stunning, but the movie is too long and messy in terms of ideas or whatever it wants to say, to the point that it doesn't make any sense and seems more like an amalgam of a lot of things that worked infinitely better in other movies (like Shutter Island).
Super Reviewer
A little bit too long... but still an overall pretty good movie.
Super Reviewer
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