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Gothika (Widescreen Edition) Customer Reviews (13 - 15 of 68 Reviews)

Yuck - don't waste your money
A friend recomended this DVD to me, so I bought the DVD. Don't be fooled - this movie sucks. I admit that I liked the title song (Behind Blue Eyes), originally done by the Who, as well as the video of the song. But the movie itself was a poor imitation of The Sixth Sense and, especially, Stir of Echoes. The plot is somewhat preposterous, even for a horror film.

Halle Berry looks good in the film, and she didn't do a bad job acting. In fact, all the actors and actresses Gothika tried their best to do a good job and are fairly credible. But the script is lame and the premise is foolish. Overall, the movie is pretty tired. This movie adds nothing to the genre.

So bad..yet I couldn't look away
I thought this movie was terrible. Very stupid and unbelievable. Halle Berry was actually terrific though, and if it weren't for her, I probably would have turned it off after the first 10 minutes or so. Robert Downey Jr., who is usually first class, is flat and uninteresting and the general plot is incredibly ridiculous.
What starts off as a promising story quickly turns into a circus, with Halle Berry becoming a patient in the very own facility in which she had practiced psychiatry just the day before (like that would ever happen). One day she is treating patients, the next, she is one of them. I'd tell you more but it's really not worth the time it would take to write it out. However, if you love camp and you can sit through the movie long enough, you have to watch the scene where the mild mannered buttoned up sherrif suddenly turns into a raving shirtless tattooed psychopath. Funny stuff.

Great suspenseful thriller
Psychiatrist Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) wakes up inside a cell at the very institution she has been working in this movie. One dark and stormy night, Miranda takes a detour and almost runs over a young girl (Kathleen Mackey) and the next thing she wakes up in the mental institution. It turns out she has killed her husband (played by Charles Dutton) and left a cryptic message in blood on the wall. The movie takes you through lots of twists and turns, from start to finish. I thought the cinematography was great and really set the pace for the movie, as well as the suspense factor. It was a great movie, however the end was very cliché and typical horror movie resolution. However, it's still a great movie and Halle Berry proves why she is a fine actress yet again, and why she deserved to win that Oscar a few years ago.

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