"Close Your Eyes", "Doctor Sleep" and "Hypnotic". How is it possible that a thriller has three different a.k.a. Titles, and all three of them are boring?! And how can you set high expectations for a supposedly compelling serial-killer flick if all three titles (and the DVD-cover, and the cast list).
"Hypnotic" - I'll go with the title on the DVD that I borrowed from a friend - is one of the most uninteresting and slowest moving thrillers I had the displeasure of viewing. The uncharismatic Goran Visnjic stars as an uncertified hypnotist specialized in helping people to quit smoking. When he "sees" the image of a drowning girl in the thoughts of a female police officer, she promptly recruits him to work on an unresolvable case. Her supervisors think it's a terrible idea, and they are right, but allow her to continue nevertheless. The hypnotist becomes obsessed with the case, satanists are involved, and blah blah.
Dull beyond words, overlong, completely devoid of thrills and/or gore, and every single cast member looks & behaves as if they didn't want to be part of this project. Admittedly, I was already half asleep by the third act, but from the looks of it, the climax was preposterous (shapeshifting, evil reincarnated, etc.). The plot of this film is even dumber than the idea of quitting to smoke via hypnosis therapy.
"Hypnotic" - I'll go with the title on the DVD that I borrowed from a friend - is one of the most uninteresting and slowest moving thrillers I had the displeasure of viewing. The uncharismatic Goran Visnjic stars as an uncertified hypnotist specialized in helping people to quit smoking. When he "sees" the image of a drowning girl in the thoughts of a female police officer, she promptly recruits him to work on an unresolvable case. Her supervisors think it's a terrible idea, and they are right, but allow her to continue nevertheless. The hypnotist becomes obsessed with the case, satanists are involved, and blah blah.
Dull beyond words, overlong, completely devoid of thrills and/or gore, and every single cast member looks & behaves as if they didn't want to be part of this project. Admittedly, I was already half asleep by the third act, but from the looks of it, the climax was preposterous (shapeshifting, evil reincarnated, etc.). The plot of this film is even dumber than the idea of quitting to smoke via hypnosis therapy.