Yar, you be here: Gothika (Widescreen Edition) > Customer Reviews

Gothika (Widescreen Edition) Customer Reviews (61 - 63 of 68 Reviews)

misunderstood
Just to clarify for those people who have nothing good to say about this movie. You obviously didn't pay attention while watching. The end scene does not take place in the mental institute!! Dr. Grey goes out of town to her husband's "other" house, remember? While she is there the police show up and take her to the police station. She is stuck there all night in lock-up. The only person missing is probably the officer who should be on duty to watch her until morning. I assume the Sheriff tells the other guy to leave when he shows up in the middle of the night to talk to Dr. Grey. In the end there are a lot of plot holes, but I was entertained and that's all that counts. It doesn't hurt to use your own brain once in a while a figure things out for yourself. I don't want everything spelled out for me. This is not oscar worthy, but relax people and just sit back and enjoy.

A bleak, evaporating movie
The first half of this movie builds with an interesting story concept and some beautiful and inventive cinematography. Then it simply runs away into a film so full of plot holes and forgotten story threads that it sort of dissolves into nothing.

By the end of the film, all the characters have lost any depth that was hinted at in the promising beginning. Robert Downey gets one decent scene, and then is left to wander through the rest of the picture, delivering a line here or there and generally looking either bewildered or dutifully concerned. Halle Berry, who has proven that she can act well in a supporting role, can't really seem to deliver the weight needed to carry a picture.

All in all, a good start that quickly digressed into a weak mishmash of ideas and concepts. All the viewer is left with in the end is the rainy, bleak atmosphere of the picture - slick and pointless. --Mykal Banta

A Supernatural Thriller Ed Wood Would Have Loved
I know when you go to certain kinds of movies you have to be wiliing to suspend your disbelief in order to be entertained. Not this time. Gothika is a suspense movie with so many holes in the plot that it resembles Charlie Brown's Halloween costume.

First things first...the story. Halle Berry plays a woman named Anna who is a shink at a mental institution. She happens to be married to Doug played by Charles S. Dutton who is also her boss. Anna drives home on a rainy night to almost run down a girl. That is the last thing she remembers before she wakes up as a patient in her own institution and accused of murdering her husband.

Okay, now, I don't know of any real life examples of this happening but I seriously doubt that if a woman was in that situation they would put her in the same facility where she worked. Most likely she would have been transfered to another facility for her safety. But being held in the facility is conveinent for the plot of this ridiculous story.

Another thing about that facility..it's dark and dreary. The exact kind of atmosphere those places try to avoid. It would be well lit.

As I said, Anna being held in the facility in which she works provides convienence for the plot. Anna knows her way around and that makes it easier for her to escape. First thing, the guards at this institution are very stupid. They cannot find as she is trying to escape. IN one of the worst scenes in the movie she hides in an indoor swimming pool at night with the lights off. She's in the corner and the cops are looking for her with flashlights and after a few seconds they determine she's not here. No, the did not bother turning on the lights which would make her visible. If anyone in this story were quick witted this would be a very short movie.

I'll skip a lot and just say the showdown with the villian is just absurd. This is a mental institution. There is a struggle and a shoot out. Convienently the entire hospital staff disappears for this sequence.

This is pretty much a film dedicated with trying to get some cheap scares out of it's audience. You know, owls flying out of nowhere and people reaching out of the dark with loud noises on the soundtrack to increase the shock effect. If you want a good scare the original Dawn of the Dead is now on DVD. And the new one in the theater is good also. But save your hard earned money on this mess.

Previous Page

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Next Page