MK Ultra

One of those high Three Star Ratings where I almost want to give it a four but can't pinpoint where it fumbles. On sight, this looked like it would've been some sensationalized hackjob only to find that it's actually a sturdy surface study of MK Ultra, focusing specifically…

Tomhomo

How could you possibly take such a great topic with endless possibilities and make it so dang boring? And what is this ending? Substantially lacking in all regards.

Lindsay

i’m amazed by people’s ability to take the most interesting topics or subjects and make the most boring movies imaginable about them

foxesinfiction

In the 1960's the CIA started an experimentation program looking for a way to control the mind. Thus it created LSD using it on unwilling subjects that were on the margins of society. One looks at the horrors of medical experimentation on human beings committed during…

Des Saint

facebook moms be like "SOMEONE MIGHT GIVE OUT DRUGS WITH HALLOWEEN CANDY!!! BE CAREFUL TRICK OR TREATING" - yeah, you are right, someone might... and this "someone" is the government!! so, beware!! (Anson Mount is so sexy tho... and he fits the 60's aesthetic so well)

tan 🦊

A more realistic dramatisation of CIA’s MK Ultra programme. The first act is annoyingly slow and long. But once it gets going, it’s a fun ride. Beautiful lighting and solid performance by Mount. Gritty handheld camerawork. There are old newsreels and interviews mixed in…

Jimbo without the Jet-Set

More like Ultra mid amiright

davidpuddy_

DID NOT like this at all. Insanely boring and dull. Uninteresting characters that all looked the same and a storyline as a flat as ever. Bad direction, bad pacing. Sucks that the idea is so cool and intriguing, but it’s a total bummer that they made it look so boring here.…

Jimmy Jackson

Dr. Ford Strauss (Anson Mount) is a psychiatrist who is experimenting with LSD on patients in an attempt to cure a variety of ailments when Speed 2's Jason Patric steps in as a shady CIA operative who offers to fund Strauss's research before using it for more malevolent…

Ripvanryan