Stumbles in so many spots that it's even difficult to champion a claim for Berry being the best thing about it.
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11/21/03
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Gothika (2003)
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Reviews Counted:159
Fresh:24
Rotten:135
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Berry's acting talents can't save Gothika from its preposterous plot and bad dialogue.
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $59,537,388
Synopsis: A brilliant and respected criminal psychologist, Dr. Miranda Grey (HALLE BERRY) is an expert at knowing what is rational. What is logical. What is sane. Under the direction of her husband... [More]
Starring: Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Penélope Cruz, Charles S. Dutton
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Reviews for Gothika
The movie begins reasonably enough, but the longer it goes on, the more deficiencies in the writing begin to show.
11/21/03
Top CriticIn trash as in art there is no accounting for taste, and reader, I cherished this movie in all of its lurid glory.
11/21/03
Top CriticGothika chooses style over substance.
11/21/03
It even manages to make a shower scene involving both Berry and Cruz completely boring.
11/21/03
Whether you're willing to pay full price to see style over substance is up to you, but if you go in knowing you're not seeing the next classic, you might have a little fun.
11/21/03
A B-level thriller with giant plot holes and lazy direction that pretends it's a real movie by casting A-list stars and getting a foreign art-house director to helm it.
11/21/03
Those who like their chills diluted may enjoy it, but anyone who prefers their horror straight up is likely to find the film a disappointment.
11/21/03
... an effectively engineered thriller (if you) accept the B-movie psycho-babble and an ending that begs blind indulgence.
11/20/03
Halle Berry's shrink-to-inmate story has a few problems ... and some nice, solid, cheesy-cheap jolts.
11/20/03
Although it tries valiantly, Hollywood’s latest horror film is nowhere near as scary as the pitch meeting that is likely responsible for its existence.
11/20/03
The real test of a horror movie is...how often a girl buries her face in your chest.There were moments where she’d dive into my arms and I’d have to say,'It was just a bird.'
11/20/03
Soon enough Gothika takes a familiar turn.
11/20/03
Top CriticThe movie is on the cheesy side.
11/20/03
Top CriticWay funnier than Scary Movie 3.
11/20/03
Once it turns into another spook story, it just becomes an endless 'Tales From the Crypt' episode, only devoid of any humor or energy.
11/20/03
It is a thoroughly synthetic confection, compounded of clichés drawn from a half-dozen genres and subgenres that for a while might almost persuade its audience, as it apparently convinced its makers, that it is something more.
11/20/03
Top CriticHow anyone in the cast manages to keep a straight face is one of the film's innumerable mysteries.
11/20/03
Dwells in its own abysmal dreariness without creating real suspense, relying instead on a stream of easy shocks to convince us that we're watching a scary movie.
11/20/03
Logic is tossed out the window, chased down the road and abused so roundly that it never comes back.
11/20/03
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