Both viewers and critics alike haven't taken too kindly to Gore Verbinski's "A Cure for Wellness." The sci-fi psychological horror thriller stars Dane Dehaan, Jason Isaacs, and Mia Goth.

According to a review from Deadline, Gore Verbinski's "A Cure for Wellness" suffered mainly due to its lengthy run time. Cutting at least 40-50 from the 146-minute film would have benefitted moviegoers, claimed the review.

The review also pointed out that an actor with more star power, such as Leonardo DiCaprio in "Shutter Island," would have been able to save the movie. Sadly, Dane Dehaan looks too young and "does not have the weight or gravitas to be convincing" as he portrays a "young stockbroker sent to Europe on a mission to bring back the CEO of his troubled financial services company."

The CEO of Lockhart's company has allegedly been staying at a spa in the Swiss Alps. The spa caters to an older clientele, and it offers a special brand of water that is marketed as a fountain of youth.

As Lockhart arrives at the spa, a girl named Hannah (Mia Goth) tells him that no one ever leaves. Volmer (Jason Isaacs) introduces himself as the spa's owner, and he takes Lockhart under his wing.

Per The New York Times, "A Cure for Wellness" "defiantly and splendidly flouts the tenets of plausibility and coherence, which have never interested" director Verbinski. The NY Times review posits that he "comes by his knack for enjoyable nonsense as honestly as his taste for aquatic fauna."

The eels in the movie, which are even featured in the trailer for "A Cure for Wellness," could be the answer to the mystery ingredient in the spa's miraculous water. The film is "a lustrous box of genre candy, the self-revealing work of an auteur who has laid bare not so much his psyche as his online streaming queue."

Viewers who see the movie may find themselves with a sense of déjà vu as it frequently makes use of scenes previously seen in other films, "sometimes with a literalness that treads the boundary between homage and outright plagiarism."

One example of this is the aforementioned "Shutter Island," especially when Lockhart's journey to find answers mirrors Teddy Daniels' own trip to the facility. The film also echoes Paolo Sorrentino's "Youth," which also featured a "mountain rest-cure setting."

There are also homages to Guillermo del Toro's "Crimson Peak" in the form of a segue from "psychological melodrama to full-on creep show" with "incest, medical experiments and ghoulish aristocratic shenanigans." "A Cure for Wellness" also has hints of the work of "Hitchcock and Kubrick," "Suspiria" and Mario Bava.