Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS**** Confusing movie with a totally off the wall plot about what could better be called reincarnation. Not in one getting born after he or she passed away but being inserted or popped into another body via a brain transplant coupled with a blood transfusion! Despite the movie making very little sense it did in fact end up winning a number of awards, in probably putting the most people to sleep while watching it, for it's story and cinematography from the little known Cineygma Luxemburginx Film Festival. It also bombed out at the box office making back a scanty $50,000.00 of the more then $10,000.000.00 it cost to produced this half-baked turkey.There's the star of the film a notorious quack doctor using hypnotherapy on his unsuspecting patients Michael Strother played by Goran Visnjic, the most famous Croatian American since New York Yankeee home run king Roger Maris, who freaked out back in the USA when he tried to cure a patient of his fear of water. That by Strother putting him under hypnosis and encouraging him to jump into a lake in early April while it was still covered with ice. The poor guy ended up catching pneumonia and drowning by following Strother's insane and dangerous advice! Now in London under an assumed name, the same Michael Strother, he's involved in curing people of smoking and taking only cash not checks or IOU's, so no one can check on him, to pay his bills or living expenses. It all starts when Strother cures London police officer Janet Losey, Shirley Henderson, of her addiction to tobacco. While putting Janet under hypnosis he uncovers the reason why this young girl Heather, Sophie Stuckey, a recent kidnapped victim was so traumatized by her experience that she ended up losing her voice! With Losey, using the threat of exposing him as a quack, has Strother put Heather under hypnosis and, what do you know, ends up getting her voice back!From there on the movie quickly goes down hill with this cock & bull scenario about some people in London involved in a string of kidnapping and ritual murders of children to provide them with new lives, how it's done is never really explained, by somehow using the kidnapped and blood drained bodies of adults as their new bodies or identities. Strother who at first thought this is all ridicules soon become convinced it's really real as he delves deeper and deeper into the subject matter. This almost has him become the next person who's body, after being drain of all its blood, is to be taken over by the head of this kidnap and murder gang Catherine Leboug, Flowa Shaw, who looks like, in being almost 100 years old, she's on her death bed already!****SPOILERS**** We also find out later in the movie that the elderly Mrs. Leboug is actually the daughter of another member of the gang Francis Paladine, John Rogan, who's in fact young enough to be her great-great grandson! There's really nothing more to write about "Close your Eyes" since it gets more confusing as it goes on to it's final reward. That's where we see that Strother's new born son who together with his mom Clara, Miranda Otto, is at a carnival enjoying himself now being put under a spell by Heather to have the evil bloodline of the devil worshiping Paladine cult allowed to continue.

Boba_Fett1138 Of course not much was to be expected of this movie but it had a promising enough premise to make me think this would be a somewhat decent movie to watch. But no, the movie as it turns out is a very uneven and even messy one at times.You would think that hypnotism would play a big part in this movie and would evolve around it. But no, it's just a detective movie and mystery, in which Goran Visnjic's hypnotic skills don't even seem to be all that relevant. As a matter of fact, the movie takes a more supernatural approach, so even the scene's that do involve hypnotism have basically very little to do with real hypnotism. No, you really can't call this movie a realistic or convincing one.But what is way worse is that it isn't being a consistent one. The story jumps all over the place and takes way too many different directions. First you think it is going to be a movie about a hypnotist and his patient. Then it makes you believe that it's going to be all about a little girl who got abducted and by the end it suddenly turns into a super natural thriller. This movie really wanted to do way too much, while the story itself had far too little to offer.The movie isn't very original in any way and all the stuff that is in it you probably have seen somewhere else before and done way better or more creatively.The movie also doesn't ever really seem to really take off. I just never really got into it because the movie was lacking a good build up. Because of this also all of the tension and mystery of the movie falls incredibly short. This is also because the movie, for at least its first half, is lacking any danger. There is no visible villain and our main character isn't really threatened in any way. Besides the entire mystery that needs to get resolved remains too vague all throughout to really care about any of it.It's too bad, I have always wanted Goran Visnjic to breakthrough as a real leading man for movies but roles in productions like this really don't help his career much. It's just a very bland, uninteresting and uneven movie, that also seems to be far too over-Hollywoodized for a British BBC production, which this movie is.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Libretio DOCTOR SLEEP (USA: Close Your Eyes) Aspect ratio: 2.39:1Sound format: Dolby DigitalA sleep psychologist (Goran Visnjic) 'blessed' with the ability to read minds is recruited by London police to probe the psyche of a traumatised little girl who recently escaped from an elusive serial killer.Typical BBC stuff, all mood and very little action, though the murderer's identity and motives are certainly unique, and there's an extraordinary mind-reading sequence early in the film when Visnjic experiences an alternative 'twilight' reality where the killer seems to operate with impunity. In all other respects, however, the movie is dry as dust: Director Nick Willing (PHOTOGRAPHING FAIRIES) generates very little suspense, even as Visnjic stumbles closer to the maniac's identity, and William Brookfield's half-hearted script (co-written by Willing, based on a novel by Madison Smartt Bell) is timid in all departments.

gridoon To describe this film, I will borrow a phrase that the inimitable Pauline Kael had once used: hokum without the fun of hokum. Despite some camera tricks and computer effects, "Doctor Sleep" is plodding. The script is muddled, and Shirley Henderson's amateurish performance as the female detective is a big hindrance. Though it is filmed in London, it takes little advantage of it as a city, and portrays its police as stuck-up buffoons. Besides, when a movie starts with plot elements like hypnosis and mind-reading, who wants to see a far less interesting story involving occult symbols and satanic rituals? I will admit that some scenes work - they can make you a little queasy - but that's it. (*1/2)