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Summary: very very interesting
Review: Gothika was a very interesting film. it was slo very scary. I actually have the same job as Halle Berry in the movie. I work at a hospital for the Criminally Insane, so Gothika was very interesting to me. It made me think, maybe the people i work with everyday aren't actually crazy, and their stories are true. Halle Berry did a fantastic job in this movie. It was very creepy and scary, well done and well acted. The only thing i wasn't quite sure of was the ending. I wasn't too sure what they were saying, but if what I think they are saying is true, then it really is good! fantastic movie
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Summary: gothika
Review: it was great movie. very intense. it makes sense...you cant trust anybody who think you're crazy....
definately will get the dvd and watch it again as soon as it's realesed...
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Summary: pretty good
Review: Gothika was a very good movie.The end seemed rather..blah. lol..no way to describe it. Halle Berry was good for the role.
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Summary: Charles S. Dutton PERFECT FOR THE ROLE
Review: You first see "Roc" and think, 'Yuk, wrong for her husband." when he first kissed her my skin crawled! But he is the perfect character, you are blindsided by his evil, i don't want to give anything else away! If anything Halle might not have been the right 'wife', but even she is perfect for the role, they just seem odd as a pair. And being a fan of Robert Downey Jr., well... he is under used, but ohh what a hotty, at least to this 40 year old he is ;) see the movie, be amazed at the evil, and this HAS happened my friends, this story comes of pure REAL evil. Always becareful, you NEVER really know ANYONE.
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Summary: What the heck was thatika? A run-of-the-mill thriller.
Review: A stale-if-atmospheric psychothriller that doesn't even have the ambition to provide a red herring, "Gothika" could well prove to be the nightmare movie of Halle Berry's career: The Academy Award winner broke her arm during production; divorced her husband; the movie isn't any good; and neither is she in it. The American debut for French director Mathieu Kassovitz - he played the shy love interest in "Amelie" - "Gothika" is visually up-to-snuff (an intended pun that you'll understand if you see the movie) but loaded with the kind of boo material - ominous tattoos, torture, the stigmata - that lost its freshness the minute "The Silence of the Lambs" hit theaters. You would have figured Ralph Fiennes punctuated the body art motif with his turn in "Red Dragon." You figured wrong. Berry is Dr. Miranda Grey, a state hospital shrink attempting the break the wall of a patient - played by Penelope Cruz with something I'd like to call "endearing menace"- while Miranda's administrator husband (Charles S. Dutton) administrates and a colleague (Robert Downey, Jr.) fawns after her in that creepy, insinuating way only Downey can. The quick, dirty setup leads to a dark stormy night where the main road is flooded over and Miranda is forced to traverse a bridge in middle of a forest. She encounters a young girl and wakes up the next morning, a patient in her very own hospital, accused of murdering her husband. Since "Gothika" never brings any other murder suspects into the picture, the movie explores not who killed the Dutton character, but why the girl "influenced" Miranda to do it. Let it be said that the filmmakers conjure up a thoroughly hateful, cruel explanation for the murder that argues not only that one bad deed deserves another, but that two bad deeds an entertaining movie makes. "Gothika" is no longer than 90 minutes, and yet it's too long by half; there is so little meat to Sebastian Guitierrez's screenplay that Downey's repeated interrogations, and Cruz's rueful whisperings, exist only to stretch the movie to official feature length. Berry, who can be very good ("Monster's Ball," "Losing Isaiah") or virtually transparent (the "X-Men" movies) plays Miranda as one long, freaked out, screaming mess - Berry's heart is in it, but her talent isn't. Cruz partakes in another bewildering, at-times-incomprehensible supporting role. Downey plays a good guy and makes him borderline insufferable. And then there's Kassovitz, for whom I see a future as a director, even if the material is thin. He has horror tendencies - the prison of "Gothika" is murky, and the movie's "encounter" scene is handled well - mixed some basic clue of pacing; the movie drags, but not for Kassovitz's lack of effort.
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Summary: Spiral of supernatural confusion..
Review: As I watched this movie I had to figure out where this all was going. Halle Berrys excellent performance (once again) was blinded by the movies twists and turns creating a new surpirse that spoiled each second of the movie. I did enjoy watching this phsycotic thriller but at the same time was still trying to figure out the connection between the real life murders in the movie and the surpernatural ghost of a girl who died 4 years ago leading Halle to be the hero of every cause. What was the situation of the mental visions that Halle and Penelope suffered? How did the ghost of the girl connect to the rest of the plot? These questions remained unanswered for me and my mind was still garbled by them. The ending to me was obvious and dull but at the same time making you beg for more. May the boy she saw at the end of the film lead to a sequel? Who knows, but the mental instution played no role in the main plot and a huge question lingered on my toungue. How was Halle lured to kill her husband and then become normal again 5 days later. The ghost of the girl lead Halle to every crime scene and every escape, it seemed the ghost character was put in thier just to fill up the empty spots.
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Summary: AWESOME!!
Review: This movie was so awesome! I'm definitely buying it on DVD! As a Doctor who has spent considerable time in Psychiatry, I really found this movie interesting on that level. It's a tad bit weird, but you'll love it, trust me!
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Summary: The BEST Movie EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie is definetly worth seeing. At first I had no clue what this movie was about because the title made no sense! It turned out to be the best movie I had ever seen. I couldn't even guess whodunit at the end. A GREAT pschological thriller. I recommend seeing this movie!
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Summary: Dang, I wanted this to be good
Review: This movie had a few scenes that really made me jump, but then abot 2/3 of the way through, the mood totally changed, and the frightening parts suddenly came to and end. The movie had potential, but was ruined by a weak screenplay.
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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY!
Review: I have been a fan of all Dark Castle Productions past films. I couldn't wait to see this one and I wish I had. The film had a poor script. The acting from most EVERYONE involved surly was not top notch, although Mr. Downey DID pull his own weight. I left when the film was over, and wish I would have seen ELF instead. I want my money back.
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