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Great Film overall

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Quite a cast list here and based on a Poe story, so you'd be forgiven for having reasonably high expectations. It's a bit formulaic though, full of Victorian deathly drama. Shadowy, creeping, slightly clunky script and obvious spooky string laden score. With all this mounting up, it doesn't look promising, but there's a dark humour which makes it quite entertaining and after the first half hour has passed, albeit a little predicable it does find its feet. The boundaries blur nicely between who is good and who is mad and it's all made the more watchable by Ben Kingsley, who although is dialling it in a bit, is still very watchable. Which is a good summary... watchable.

I really liked this movie.I thought the ending was going to be expected but it was really cool to be surprised.To be honest it deserves 9 stars but I'm very picky.

I watched this movie mainly because one of the reviewers criticised the IMDb ratings stating that it was highly unjustified and that the movie deserved a 9. So I went ahead and watched it even though I almost always go by the ratings here and then watch a flick.First the good bit- Each and every actor was great in this film. The direction is tense just as it should be for a mystery/thriller movie and you are hooked from the very first scene. As the plot thickens, it shows much promise. I was actually surprised by the twist and then...everything spirals out of control and the suspense towards the end is actually a bit far-fetched/unrealistic and makes you feel extremely disappointed. I'm giving it a 6.5 because of the promise the plot brought to the table and because the actors were great and seemed to give it their all. But I'm vexed at the director who couldn't deliver a great thriller in its entirety when this had so much potential. Oh well, watch it on a rainy day and keep your expectations low. The acting will make up for it I guess.On a separate note, I wish IMDb adds .5 to their 1-10 rating scale.

StoneHearst Asylum(2014) Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis, Jason Flemyng, Sinéad Cusack, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Guillaume Delaunay, Edmund Kingsley, Christopher Fulford, and Ekaterina Stoyanova Directed By: Brad Anderson Review NO ONE IS WHAT THEY SEEM Hello Kiddies your pal The Crypt-Critic is gone mad, mad of boredom. I don't know about that many asylum movies, the only one I have seen before this was Shutter Island and it's one of my all time favorite movies which also happens to star Ben Kingsley. That one made was well not boring to me but this ugh. A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change. The Call director Brad Anderson returns to the helm for this psychological thriller loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, and centered on the experiences of a Harvard Medical School graduate (Jim Sturgess) who becomes obsessed with a mental patient named Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale) while working at a mental asylum that's been taken over by the inmates. It sounds cool in theory but either I should read Edgar Allen Poe's short instead or I'm just oh I don't know insane. The movie is supposed to be a scary thriller but it's narrative is just lost in it's translation at least that's how I felt it was mostly just surrounded with cool name actors who do give a good performances from the likes of Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine and Kate Beckinsale and the production design is pretty okay but that's just it. It's just so okay, that you can't rip into it. Stonehearst Asylum is getting a two and a half out of five.