Frankie & Alice

Halle Berry stars as a troubled woman who finds herself blacking out and having no memory of how she got to wherever she woke up. She begins seeing a psychiatrist played by Stellan Skarsgard and finds she may be suffering from multiple personalities. This isn't a bad film. Skarsgard is good and Berry is usually better than she is in this one. Here it just comes off as overacting rather than something believable that keeps the viewer engaged.

Halle Berry is a Great Actress!!!

A hefty delivery that justified the story's subjective psychology with Berry's channeling performance, alongside Skarsgard's humane empathetic support of gentle approach, taking it to the fullest but anchored down by illogic shortcomings. (B)

Was it slow. Yes. Was it a little disjointed. Yes. Was it a great story worth getting to the end of. Yes.

Good to see Halle really acting again, after cashing checks on eleventy X-Men movies. However, she can't quite pull off the Beautiful Mind-Psycho-Split thing. Valiant effort, because schizophrenia is serious subject matter. I've seen much worse films.

Berry has no idea how bad the film is. Unfortunately the great supporting cast is given nothing to do.

It was a great movie - the acting was superb.

I'm guessing that it's mostly because this issue has been addressed several times before that critics are a little harsh, but what script in Hollywood is new at this point? There's also criticism of Berry's characterization of her various personalities, but since this dive has quite a few more twists and turns than most others, I'm going to give her kudos for her efforts. I thought she did a great job of forming and holding down each character. For those criticizing, I'd liove to see their superior interpretations. Not ground breaking or unexpected in many ways, but for the effort put forth by Berry alone, I'm giving it high marks.

Halle Berry did a phenomenal job at portraying a black woman surviving with multiple personalities especially since discussing mental illness in the black community is still taboo :-(. I'm glad that the woman she portrayed was able to really get help. Bravo Halle!

Halle berry is incredible in this.