Gothika is one of the first movies Halle Berry starred in after winning the Best Actress Oscar for Monster’s Ball, which brought her much criticism, as it was deemed unworthy of an Oscar winner.
As supernatural thrillers go, Gothika is watchable but flawed, mostly because some parts are utterly predictable.
The plot: Berry is a prison psychologist who suddenly ends up on the other side of the divisor for allegedly committing a heinous crime of which she seems to have no memory.
Berry does a decent job, flanked by Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Penélope Cruz, and the great Bernard Hill. As I mentioned, the screenplay is neither good nor bad, but it does manage to generate a few scares.
I’d only recommend this to fans of the genre.
Grade: 5
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