A Cure for Wellness (2017)

★ 6.4 2h 26m 4,149 votes IMDb

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 but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

A Cure for Wellness

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Dane DeHaan
Dane DeHaan as Lockhart Age 40 · Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA Dane William DeHaan (born February 6, 1986) is an American actor, known for his roles as Andrew Detmer in Chronicle (2012), Harry Osborn/Green Goblin in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Lockhart in A...
Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs as Volmer Age 62 · Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (2000), Michael D. Steele in Black Hawk Down (2001), Lucius Malfoy i...
Mia Goth
Mia Goth as Hannah Age 32 · Southwark, London, England, UK Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth (born October 25, 1993), is an English and Brazilian actress. After modelling as a teenager, Goth made her acting debut in the erotic art film Nymphomaniac (2013). She ea...
Harry Groener
Harry Groener as Pembroke Age 74 · Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany Harry Groener is a German-born American actor and dancer born on September 10, 1951, in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, to a musical family with an opera singer mother and concert pianist father. He emigr...
Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie as Victoria Watkins Age 73 · Guildford, Surrey, England, UK Celia Imrie (born July 15, 1952) is an English actress. In a career starting in the early 1970s, Imrie has played Marianne Bellshade in “Bergerac,” Philippa Moorcroft in “Dinnerladies,” Miss Babs in “...
Adrian Schiller
Adrian Schiller as Deputy Director Died 2024 · London, England, UK Adrian Schiller (February 21, 1964 - April 3, 2024) was a British actor was best known for The Last Kingdom, Victoria and Doctor Who..

Audience Reviews

RoidDroidVoid 5/10 Jun 24, 2017
The movie did a great job with atmosphere and mood for sure but the hollow plot devices, shaky motives, nonsensical 'science' and the burden set upon me to suspend disbelief against all odds makes it one that I cannot recommend.

It is unfortunate that they did not have a more experienced or capable writer to consult before moving ahead. I think the right person may have been able to untangle this knot of a script.

All other elements were well done and I could feel the tension and sense of isolation grow throughout the film. They did so much right that it is a terrible shame that, ultimately, it went so wrong.
PimplyChicken 2/10 Jun 27, 2017
My goodness! Two and a half hours of absolute drivel. The worst movie I have seen in a long time. The list of things that are wrong with this movie are almost too many to list.

First the good: the makers of this movie have obviously paid a lot of attention and have gone to a lot of trouble in the design of the movie. The location and the settings are stunning. The 'spa' where the story takes place is suitably unsettling and creepy. The music also is a highlight. That's where the good ends, unfortunately.

The plot of this movie is an absolute mess. It seems the producers weren't sure what they were going for: Gothic horror? Dark and quirky? Straight out frightening? As a result, the finished product is none of these things. The movie swings from one improbable scenario to another. New plot elements are introduced with no relation to what has gone before. Several times the movie arrives at what seems to be a conclusion before picking itself up, introducing a hitherto unreferenced, unrelated, unnecessary and unlikely plot 'twist' and then lurching on its demented way. It's almost as if the makers finished the movie and then someone thought of something else to include - often borrowed from another, better movie - and they tacked it on the end. The movie seems interminable. Its two and a half hour run time could have been shortened by an hour and resulted in a somewhat enjoyable story.

It also doesn't help that the denouement is pretty obvious quite early in the piece or that certain of the plot elements are not really explained properly or that none of the characters are likeable or worthy of the viewer's sympathy or that most of the tension is provided by the music, not by the story or acting.

In short, if you're looking for a good evening's entertainment look elsewhere. This ain't it.
Gimly 7/10 Jul 10, 2017
_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.

_Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time._
Reno 6/10 Sep 04, 2017
**The mysteries behind a misty mountain fortress!**

Seems the films of this director won't survive without Johnny Depp in the lead. Just one good film would change that conception. Is this the one! No, but was very close. After seeing the film I thought it could be based on the novel, but isn't. The writers must be good to create such atmosphere, outside the novel. I was very impressed with the film, though the screenplay lagged the pace. And a few things need to be explained where the narration failed to do so, keeping in mind the average intelligent people. Other than that it is a decent mystery-drama associated with fantasy and sci-fi.

Due to a financial crisis in the firm, a young New Yorker goes to the Swiss Alps looking for his boss. At first he struggles to make a contact with him as the staffers are not friendly. After an unexpected incident, he has to stay a bit longer. In those periods, he comes to realise there's something wrong with the place, hence decides to uncover. Does he really do it! His struggles in the attempt and everything else were told in the remaining part.

Somewhat it reminded me 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'. Not until you finish watching it or figure it out the puzzle. Then the BG score was too cliché for such concept, but nothing can be replaced it. The film had a good opening. Even the mid part. But dragged in the latter section. The overall length of the film was another drawback for the narration.

There were no empty scenes, everything's were filled with something, but the end twist was not as phenomenal as promised in the earlier developments. Especially if you had seen a handful of similar masterpieces. It was kind of an old concept, like the pre 80s or something. Yet acceptable at present for being rare. Thus, it depends how well it was made. An above average film, but for those who haven't seen many films in their lives, this will be a great one.

_6/10_
k02t 9/10 Mar 09, 2018
First of all, it's not for everyone. It might seem repetitive, too long or stupid at times. However, it's worth a shot merely because of it's visuals and the constant intrigue whether the protagonist is to believed or not. The so-called 'plot holes' in the movie are open to interpretation and thought and never bothered me. The ending could have been cut short, but it's a reminder that perhaps there are no good guys here. Seems to be a product of another era, perhaps too ambitious for its own good.

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