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Gothika-it was awesome till the end, what happened????
Gothika is a fun thriller with a fast pace. Protagonist Halle Berry stars as a psychiatric doctor working in a modern day mental institution. Things get fun when she encounters what seems to be a demon and passes out, then awakens inside the mental institution as a patient and learns that she is being accussed of killing her husband(which she has no memory of)...

Gothika starts a bit slow, but heats up with a heart pounding pace. Halle does a great job of keeping her audience, as she plays a strong female character(that female audiences will embrace), while Male audiences will embrace Berrys curvy body running and bouncing around in tight clothes. Penelope Cruz(although with a annoying accent) pulls off a superb Co-starring performance, but unfortunatly she had less screen time then she deserved.

There was many times watching this film when I thought (wow, this is the best film I've seen this year), but the end of the movie ruins everything. For such a strange and unique movie, the cheezy ending is not what you crave. It's the biggest dissapointment in a ending since M. Night Shyamalans Signs. There is nothing worse then a great movie that completely falls apart at the end.

acting=4 stars
FX=4
ending=1 star
atmosphere=5 stars
Directing and Editing=3.5 stars
storyline=3.5 stars
meaningfullness=NA
replay value=2 stars

OVERALL= 3.29 stars

Gothika isn't perfect, but its still very much worth a look. While it's not worth purchasing on DVD, its worth a rent or a movie ticket purchase. Go for fun, not a masterpiece

Predictable,But Entertaining
The critically bashed film known as "Gothika" isn't a bad movie,even though the minute Halle Berry says "I know the murder had something to do with the girls ghost" it's pretty obvious what's going on.But...it's happening.People are managing to write good horror films again and this is one of them.Berrys stars as Miranda Grey,a psychiatrist working at a mental institution is driving home when she sees a girl standing in the middle of the road.She investigates but the girl suddenly bursts into flames and Miranda wakes up in the same mental institution she works in and she has supposedly killed her husband.But when the ghosts begins to mess with her,she befriends one of her patients named Chloe (Penelope Cruz) who believes Satan comes into her cell and rapes her.The movie is fastpaced,never boring really,there are surprises and stuff that is supposed to be surprsing,the film also stars Secret Window's Charles S.Dutton as
Miranda's dead husband Doug and Robert Downey Jr. as the doctor treating her.B for the movie.Enjoy.

"Gothika" promises chills, but it's all tame spills!
Halle Berry plays Dr. Miranda Grey, a brilliant doctor in a mental institution who wakes up one morning as a patient in her own hospital and begins to be visited by a female ghost in most "horrifying," as the studio would lead you to believe, ways. I'll ignore the fact that the hospital's lights are always blinking and much of the equipment resembles a 1500s torture machine. But I refuse to ignore the blatant disregard for non-cheap thrills, quality acting, and screenplay (This "script" has more plot holes than 200 STAR TREK episodes). At the end of the day, it's somewhat entertaining, but obvious and easy to forget.

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