A Cure for Wellness (Gore Verbinski, 2016)

Dane DeHaan, a young high-flyer in an American company is sent to fetch the CEO, who seems to have lost his marbles, from a Swiss sanatorium. But all, of course, not as it first seems and he starts questioning his sanity upon witnessing more and more horrors in the manner of Shutter Island, which is rather heavily signposted by both the setting and DeHaan's obvious similarity to a young DiCaprio.
If the film had been content to be just a clone of that, with at least its striking visuals providing some balancing merit, a considerable amount of face would have been saved, even if its occasional pontifications on human nature are annoyingly shallow. But this is a work by Verbinski of Pirates of the Caribbean fame, and so after a depressing number of false denouements it goes utterly and stupidly over the top and you end up wishing the hero really had just given up with his fruitless efforts and gone home half the way through.

4/10