The Good Nurse (2022) Review

Amy Loughren is a compassionate nurse who has been working tough night shifts in the ICU. She has a life threatening illness that she cannot tell anyone about and when Charlie Cullen starts on the same shift it looks as though she will have someone to truly support and help her.

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*LFF 2022 Preview Screening*

Attempting to reach the time when she is covered by health insurance Amy is doing her best to keep going whilst at work, although particular tasks are becoming more difficult. It seems as though Charlie’s arrival happens at the right time and he really does help her so much professionally and then even personally as well. He seems too good to be true, and quite frankly that is because something is not quite right about him. From the moment he arrives he does give off a very creepy vibe.

I had no clue at all about the real life person of Charlie and everything this was based upon! Which I guess meant that certainly aspects of the film I really did find rather shocking, if you remember it or have heard about it then maybe it won’t pack the same punch but I was certainly engrossed from start to finish.

Amy has her two daughters to raise which she has been doing alone and as they are starting to get a little bit older they notice her absence more. Charlie attempts to get in with them as well, especially as he is not allowed to see his own two daughters. A story that we only get little parts of at different times. When two detectives begin to get involved at the hospital after the death of a patient that Amy had originally been looking after but was then switched to Charlie, due to the hospital having an internal investigation that they were attempting to keep very quiet everything would change.

Amy would then grow increasingly suspicious over Charlie’s actions especially when a second death occurs from someone that should not have died. She then finds out he had actually been at a lot of hospitals. The detectives were not getting anywhere trying to find out information on him and the people they spoke to at different hospitals would often go quiet when his name was mentioned!

The most shocking thing about all of it was that not only did he get away with for so many years, was that the hospitals and different members of staff had suspicions that the deaths were not expected or normal and did absolutely nothing about it at all. Then we see the situation with Amy and not being able to afford health insurance despite working as a nurse, the American medical system is something that I find so difficult to understand in terms of costs and makes me so thankful for our NHS in the UK! In all honesty I actually thought that was going to be the main storyline within the film when it first started.

Jessica Chastain is briljant in the leading role and an actress who I really do enjoy watching, her career really has exploded in the best possible way over the past two decades. Eddie Redmayne is an actor I have struggled with over the years but I really do have to give him some credit for this performance, really capturing the awkward and then sadistic nature of the character. Noah Emmerich and Nnamdi Asomugha make a very good team as the detectives adding that little bit extra to the film.