A Cure for Wellness

Name: A Cure for Wellness
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy
Released: February 17, 2017
Duration: 146 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Dane DeHaan, Ivo Nandi, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: February 17, 2017 | R

Starring: Dane DeHaan, Ivo Nandi, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth

Summary: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed withAn ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.… Expand

Director: Gore Verbinski

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 146 min

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Blake Goble

Feb 15, 2017

A Cure for Wellness feels like a return to form for the director. It’s not hard to imagine how Verbinski might have come up with a baffling horror film about the pressures of work/health balance. His latest film is rich with invention, intrigue, and a mind-melting liveliness that’s impossible to ignore. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Feb 15, 2017

Equal parts baroque fairy-tale, atmospheric mystery, and hideous body-horror nightmare, the film puts what could have been a cost-effective genre exercise on steroids, giving life to a two-and-half-hour, R-rated Frankenstein monster. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Feb 16, 2017

A Cure for Wellness is an odd film. It's exceedingly well-crafted; the attention to detail and design, composition and camera movement on display here has largely been abandoned by recent horror films grasping for a jarring sense of realism. Read full review

April Wolfe

Feb 10, 2017

The director conjures some chills with a cold plunge into an enchanting and frightful world — the imagery’s straight out of a Kubrick and Lynch nightmare — but the story unravels as he tries to overexplain his evil doctor’s devilish plot. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Feb 16, 2017

There’s no rule that main characters have to be likable, and DeHaan’s Lockhart isn’t, but they at least have to be interesting. He fails that litmus test. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

Feb 23, 2017

When A Cure for Wellness goes full wacko, it certainly doesn’t worry about questions of taste. But it hasn’t worried about questions of logic, duration, or novelty, either. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Feb 16, 2017

A godawful gothic horror flick. Read full review

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Cheetahice

Feb 17, 2017

This is a film that is unique in a great way unlike most films. I think why the critics hated the film was because 20th Century Fox didn't get very popular actors. I say as long as the movie is in decent quality, then it doesn't matter what actors you get to do your film.

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Acclamation

Feb 2, 2018

Well crafted, great music and cinematography. The story is ok. Some good **** and bondage. I watched the whole thing is it was sorta fun.

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Relaxedmike

Jul 5, 2017

Frankenstein with a different twist. Starts out well and then.....Okokok..could have been much better with the plot. Still, it holds ones interest to a degree. You actually buy into the idea this initial plot is going somewhere big. And then you are let down. Not to bad. I give it 6 and aFrankenstein with a different twist. Starts out well and then.....Okokok..could have been much better with the plot. Still, it holds ones interest to a degree. You actually buy into the idea this initial plot is going somewhere big. And then you are let down. Not to bad. I give it 6 and a half stars.… Expand

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sjwilkin

Jul 17, 2017

As most have probably said, it does start out well and promising. Lots of mystery, suspicious characters left questioning what you really have seen. However as it keeps running it practically turns into a Frankenstein/Disney cliche. Disappointing. Very well shot however and some decent cgi scenery.

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qamaster

May 28, 2017

Throughout the film the authors try to say something abstruse, but ... nothing intelligible are said. The thought does not build, plot does not converge. The absence of a semantic concept in the scenario gives rise to a lot of allogisms and empty, meaningless scenes. By the end of the firstThroughout the film the authors try to say something abstruse, but ... nothing intelligible are said. The thought does not build, plot does not converge. The absence of a semantic concept in the scenario gives rise to a lot of allogisms and empty, meaningless scenes. By the end of the first hour of viewing the movie, it becomes obvious that the director himself does not understand what is actually going on in his film. The film is not consistent not only storyually but also stylistically. In it are clumsily mixed different genres and forms of narration are hinted. Phantasmagoric, realistic thriller, mysticism and horror - all lumped together into one pile. In the end, it should be noted that the film is simply stupid.… Expand

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