An average movie

It has been a while since I have seen this movie and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. To be honest, I never really understood why this movie was so popular. I mean, sure, it was not bad with a very nice cast involved. Above all, it was pretty awesome to see Angelina Jolie completely stealing the spotlight from Winona Ryder who was in fact planning to make her come-back with this feature but, still, at the end of the day, it remains a very glossy version of your average mental hospital drama. Indeed, if you are even slightly familiar with this subject or with this genre, it is actually rather difficult to take this movie really seriously. At the end of the day, it all depends what you expect from your average drama. Basically, if you want to see some glamorous and way too gorgeous actresses playing some mental patient switching their mood following the needs of the script, you will probably eat it up. However, if you’d rather have some mental patients who look like an actual mental patient and act like one, then, you would be rather disappointed. To conclude, even though I don’t think it is anything really amazing, I still think it is a decent watch but not much more than that, I’m afraid.