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Year:	2003
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Mathieu Kassovitz
Genre:	Hollywood horror, Psychological horror, Poor horror
Starring:	Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr, Charles S. Dutton, Penélope Cruz
Rating:	1/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348836/
Tagline:	Dr. Miranda Grey Is An Expert At Knowing What Is Rational, What Is Logical, What Is Sane... Until The Day She Woke Up On The Other Side.
Favourite line:	None worth mentioning

Hollywood tries to gek orl scairy in this psychobabblke yawn-a-thon.

The plot:
Halle Berry (yes, that's right) is a doctor in a mental institution.
With the perfect life, apparently, suddenly her world is torn apart when she is involved in a car accident:
Crossing a bridge one stormy night, she spins off to avoid a young woman in the middle of the road. Awakening, she finds herself incarcerated in the very institute she used to work at and, worse yet, her husband is dead.
Can this all be real?
Is she being manipulated?
And does anyone actually believe that Halle Berry passed her medical exams?

Ultra-slick, as polished as a teenage boy’s bell once broadband has been installed, this actually made me feel physically sick.
Everyone is so fucking perfect, so fucking beautiful to look at I couldn't really concentrate on the plot. Not that there was much to focus on; once the initial setup is over and done with, the rest of the movie is a 'run around and scream' affair, Berry doing her best impression of Jamie lee Curtis but, because she isn’t a post-op transsexual, she didn't quite deliver.
One of the least psyched out psyche thrillers I've seen in some time, this bears vague comparison with 2011's Dream House.
Only that was far superior.
Blandness personified, then, from the fear cavity that is major Hollywood movie-making.
Just shit.