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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.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

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 (CHARLES S. DUTTON), the chief administrator of the psychiatric ward at the Woodward Penitentiary... 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 (CHARLES S. DUTTON), the chief administrator of the psychiatric ward at the Woodward Penitentiary for Women, Miranda treats dangerously disturbed patients like Chloe (PENÉLOPE CRUZ), an intensely charismatic murderess whose confessions of satanic torture are dismissed by the judicious doctor as the psychotic meanderings of a paranoid mind. But Miranda's comfortable marriage and stable life are thrust into terrifying jeopardy after a cryptic encounter with a mysterious young girl leads to a nightmare beyond her wildest imagination. When Miranda awakens from the horrific incident, she is shocked to discover that her husband has been murdered - and the bloody evidence points directly at her. Unable to fathom having committed an unmotivated act of such sheer brutality against a man she loved and admired, Miranda suddenly finds herself confined to Woodward alongside the highly unstable patients she used to treat with methodical detachment. With no memory of the night in question except for fractured visions of the hauntingly enigmatic girl, the doctor's behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Her claims of innocence are seen as the beginnings of a deep descent into madness by her former colleagues like Dr. Pete Graham (ROBERT DOWNEY JR.), Miranda's sympathetic but skeptical coworker who is wrestling with issues of his own. Forced to rely on her instincts rather than facts, Miranda begins to believe that she has been possessed by a supernatural force determined to exact revenge at the expense of her sanity. As Chloe draws her deeper into her own personal hell, Miranda must determine if she is being driven to madness…or closer to the truth. Warner Bros. Pictures and Columbia Pictures presents a Dark Castle Entertainment production, Gothika, starring HALLE BERRY. The film also stars ROBERT DOWNEY JR., CHARLES S. DUTTON, JOHN CARROLL LYNCH, BERNARD HILL and PENÉLOPE CRUZ. Gothika is directed by MATHIEU KASSOVITZ and produced by JOEL SILVER, ROBERT ZEMECKIS and SUSAN LEVIN. Written by SEBASTIAN GUTIERREZ, the film is executive produced by STEVE RICHARDS, GARY UNGAR and DON CARMODY. The co-producer is RICHARD MIRISCH. The music is by JOHN OTTMAN; the director of photography is MATTHEW LIBATIQUE, A.S.C.; the production designer is GRAHAM "GRACE" WALKER; and the editor is YANNICK KERGOAT. -- © Warner Bros. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Penélope Cruz, Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Screenwriter: Sebastian Gutierrez

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 25, 2007

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
  • Dolby Digital 2.0
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Mathieu Kassovitz - Director; Matthew Libatique - Director of Photography
  • Behind the Scenes Featurettes
  • Documentary - 1. ON THE SET OF GOTHIKA
  • 2. PAINTING WITH FIRE

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12/06/05
Film Threat
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D

Succeeds in making every plot twist more unbelievable and irrational than the last.

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05/03/05
Nick Schager
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04/02/05
Garth Franklin
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1.5/5

An ceaseless stream of Fake Scares, Dream Sequences, and Shrieking Halles.

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11/28/04
Scott Weinberg
Monsters At Play
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C

Berry's grating screams might send you to looney land too.

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10/23/04
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan
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D+

Gothika est donc un autre film d’horreur qui semble sortir tout droit d’un programme créant des scénarios. Heureusement que l’on peut en rire.

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10/12/04
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
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... the 80-minute setup for the shock has nothing to do with engaging the deep-seated fears and emotions that really plague us all, at some level, every day.

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09/20/04
Mark Collette
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
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A tense storyline and a well-realised performance from Berry make Gothika a nice addition, but there’s nothing that stands-out to make it anything more.

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07/20/04
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus
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Halle is always great to watch and this is a well-written horror story.

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05/26/04
Vince Koehler
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Lights flashing on and off are not scary. Overweight cops with sexual problems are not scary. Both together? Not scary. Or even mildly entertaining.

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05/26/04
Oz
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04/26/04
Sunday Times (Australia)
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The only mystery worth trying to figure out here is how so much talent signed up for so ridiculous a movie.

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04/23/04
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)
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The jumpy twists are terrifying enough; the loony asylum is a Gothic masterpiece; but the continuity is sloppy

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04/15/04
James Christopher
Times [UK]
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Gothika first seems like a sharp psychological thriller, but it quickly turns into a campy, supernatural ghost story,

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04/09/04
Forrest Hartman
Reno Gazette-Journal
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04/09/04
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette
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I would like to call out a moratorium on the use of young, wet girls looking through the tops of their eyes with hair in their face, as ghouls. What is up with this trend?

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04/07/04
Jeff Otto
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