The title of Gothika prepares you for a spooky, atmospheric thriller with an emphasis on supernatural mystery. The best way to appreciate the movie itself is to understand that it's a waking nightmare that needn't make sense in the realm of sanity. Making a flashy Hollywood debut after his superior 2000 thriller The Crimson Rivers, French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz pours on the dark and stormy atmosphere, trapping a competent psychologist (Halle Berry) in the prison ward where she treated inmates (including Penelope Cruz) until she was committed for killing her... husband (Charles S. Dutton), who was also her boss. Did a car crash cause her to suffer ghostly delusions, or is a young girl--dead for four years--sending clues from beyond the grave? Berry has to prove her innocence while Kassovitz keeps everything--including the viewer and costar Robert Downey Jr. (as Berry's colleague)--in the dark about just where the nonsensical plot is leading. There's a better movie in here somewhere, among the catwalks and crannies of the impressive prison-castle setting, and Berry gives 100% in a performance that's consistent with the movie's overwrought tone. Attentive viewers will identify the killer early on, and the ending is anticlimactic, but Gothika serves up a few good shocks for ghost-story connoisseurs. --Jeff Shannon [show more]
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Psychological thriller starring Halle Berry as Dr Miranda Grey, a criminal psychologist who awakens to find that she is a patient in the very institute where she formerly worked, with no memory of committing the murder of her husband and colleague, Dr Doug Grey (Charles S Dutton) of which she finds herself accused. Wondering if the nightmare that is unfolding might be linked to her clever, but deeply disturbed former patient Chloe (Penelope Cruz), Miranda tries to prove her sanity and innocence, but the doctor assigned to her case, Dr Pete Graham (Robert Downey Jr) remains unconvinced by her pleas.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. "Just because someone is dead doesn't mean they're gone." A brilliant psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of having killed her husband.... Actors Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr, Bernard Hill, Penelope Cruz, Charles S. Dutton, Dorian Harewood, Andrea Sheldon & John Carroll Lynch Director Mathieu Kassovitz Certificate 15 years and over Year 2003 Screen Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic Languages English ; Polish - Dolby Digital (5.1) Subtitles English ; Polish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour and 35 minutes (approx)
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