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HALLE HAS DONE IT ONCE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Halle berry has proved once more that she is an AMAZING actress in her role as Dr.Grey.This is one of Halle greatest films YOU GO HALLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!this film is just another reason Halle is my favorite actress

Could have been so much better
Some movies are misses not because they're necessarily bad, but because they end up being mediocre even if the people involved are talented and the story has it's moments. Gothika is one such movie.

Oscar winner Halle Berry plays Miranda, a psychologist working in a mental institution. One night, after a rough session with Chloe (Cruz), a difficult patient, she goes home only to find the road blocked. After being forced to take a different route, she crashes into a ditch after swerving her car trying not to hit a girl standin in the road.

When she wakes up, she's trapped in her own clinic as one of the patients, and being charged for the murder of her husband (Dutton).

Is she going crazy? Has she already lost her mind? Did she or didn't she kill her husband and why can't she remember? What follows is a series of discoveries that lead Miranda in a direction she never expected and the answer to the mystery of her madness.

However, the film does a poor job in creating true suspense. The whole movie is dimly lit and most of the scenes in the sanitarium have a blue tone, as if to reflect the depression and the fear, but because it is constantly that way, it ends up losing its effect.

The acting is simply awful. Berry should return her Oscar after this, and Robert Downey jr., as the friendly (or is he?) doctor gives a stiff performance. The acting was so bad that Penélope Cruz ends up being the best actor in the film. Go figure.

All in all, it's not a bad film, but it could have been so much better.

Two last comments: the film is superbly produced, which makes sense when you learn that this is another Dark Castle production. Dark Castle, for those of you not in the know, is Robert Zemeckis's and Joel Silver's company for suspense/mystery films, such as Ghost ship and Thir13en ghosts. Also, this film is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, best known as Amelie's boyfriend Nino.

Gothika
Well, there is a lot to be said about this movie, and having seen it last night, it is still fresh in my mind. Halle Berry plays brilliant psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey( and quite well too) and works in a mental institution. Dr. Grey spends time talking with Penelope Cruz's character( sorry, but I cannot remember her name) who tells her that she has been raped( and don't worry, this doesn't give away any important segments in the film). "It's hard to trust someone when they think you are crazy." One night, Dr. Grey gets into an accident while driving through a bridge in the pouring down rain( and I won't tell you what happens there). When she awakes, she is suddenly a patient in the very hospital where she works!!! This movie is slightly reminiscent of Stir of Echoes and FearDotCom. I could go on and on about this movie, but it's better than you see it for yourself. Remember, negative statements about a movie should not be taken seriously. Just because so and so was disappointed, doesn't mean that the rest of us have to be. Anyways, good luck and enjoy!

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