I'm an Oscar-winning actress. I believe I'll get better roles than this someday. I don't believe I'll stick with my agent.
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11/20/03
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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
If you try hard enough, you might be able to forget that the story doesn't make a lot of sense or provide adequate thrills, although it tries to scare you a couple of times in the cheapest possible way.
11/20/03
You are more likely to be amused than scared by these sorts of foolishness.
11/20/03
Crawling with supernatural thriller cliches, from the tub of blood to the scribbled SOS's from beyond.
11/20/03
Top CriticA preposterous movie, and Berry is preposterous in it.
11/20/03
Lapses into a comatose variant on The Ring, The Eye and all those other movies about troubled spirits seeking vengeance on earthly wrongdoers.
11/20/03
Gothika is a great ride to a terrible ending.
11/20/03
A parade of cheap scare tactics.
11/20/03
Top CriticGreat cast, great atmosphere, little sense or first-rate suspense.
11/20/03
Plays out on screen as a series of crazy chases and lady-in-distress cliches, interspersed with wildly illogical plot twists-all caught by a nervous camera whirling like drunken paparazzi.
11/20/03
Top CriticProvides a decent number of thrills and chills, but it wilts before the payoff.
11/20/03
Top CriticThere's nothing worse than watching an involving motion picture collapse into rubble before your eyes, and that's exactly what happens here.
11/20/03
Top CriticIf you're smart, alone is just where you'll leave Gothika.
11/20/03
Top CriticFor those who want nothing more than a thorough scare, Gothika is effective. But for those of us who want some psychological insight with our frightfests, the film is sadly lacking.
11/20/03
Top CriticFrench actor-filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz has misdirected his first American production so clumsily you wonder if the script got lost in translation.
11/20/03
Top CriticThe horror-thriller Gothika gets an A for presentation, a C+ for story and an F for dialogue.
11/20/03
Clues to the screenwriter's approach surface when Miranda mutters, 'Logic is overrated.' I couldn't have said it better myself.
11/20/03
A promising first act crumbles under the weight of the second and third act's reliance on CGI and horror movie silliness.
11/20/03
A series of cheap, ineffective scares that would have felt more at home as a mid-'70s TV Movie of the Week starring, say, Kate Jackson, Doug McClure and maybe Dennis Weaver in the Dutton role.
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