As Good As It Gets

An Exercise In Nonsense

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A shady businessman attempts to piece together the details of the car crash that killed his wife, rendered him an amnesiac, and left him in possession of a sinister puzzle box that summons monsters. Hellraiser: Hellseeker once again has nothing new to offer except more sadism but also more blood and cruelty plus i did not care for the storyline or any of the characters in general. The ending of course had a twist like any actual human being would expect but also a twist that did not work at all once again because why would it now? right? Garbage fire Seeker!!

Following his wife's accidental death in a car accident, a man tries to uncover the truth about what happened only to find the cause of a series of violent hallucination a part of a much large plan of action.This here is a highly enjoyable and far underrated effort. One of the better elements with this is the incredibly deep mystery traveling throughout this, which is far greater than expected. Not only is the change of what actually happened quite shocking, how it goes about getting there is insanely inspired by building such a strong case for the husband to be responsible and how it changes that around into a secondary plot-point is a major strength here. This also ties into the film's biggies plus throughout her which is the unbelievably chilling and well-done amount of psychological tormenting going throughout this one. Unlike the previous effort which also tried to utilize the psychological aspect, this one outdoes that by making the whole thing come from the idea of twisting around the perception of reality by starting off one way only to twist them into a series of nightmarish visions or some kind of action that really shouldn't be doing that. That's an incredibly chilling tactic which doesn't get utilized all that much so being done in conjunction with the rather creepy and highly disturbing storyline trick which makes for a thoroughly enjoyable ale here and one which is highly rewarding and watchable throughout. Beyond the creepiness here, the film also manages to make due with some rather nice blood and gore for each of the kills in this, and there's plenty here with the deformed corpses and mutilation from the tortures making for a lot of fun. These are enough to make for a rather entertaining effort, though there's a few flaws within this one that holds it down. The biggest issue is the rather short screen-time the Cenobites actually have, which is barely a few short shots while Pinhead at least has a couple different scenes to work out. The other here don't even have that luxury which tends to make the impression that they're so irrelevant to the story they were written into another film altogether as this one doesn't really feel all that connected to the rest of the series. As well, the other big flaw here is the fact that the twist here involving the secondary twist makes no sense as for why it would be accepted knowing the past history of everything, and why they would is quite puzzling. Otherwise, it's all that's really wrong with this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, and several clothed sex scenes.

When I read about this seventh film in the horror series I was intrigued that the leading actress from the original first film (and the not very good first sequel) had returned, but even with her and the actor returning as the iconic villain I knew it wouldn't be good being a straight to DVD release. Basically Trevor Gooden (Dean Winters) is married to Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence), who survived the events of the first and second films, and she seems to have gotten over her fears of the Cenobites, but disaster strikes when the two of them crash their car off a bridge into a river, and she supposedly died. Travor survived and due to a head injury can only remember seeing her inside the car before being rescued, but the police suspect foul play when the doors were discovered unlocked and Kirsty's body is missing, he is prime suspect to potential murder. A month later he starts suffering hallucinations and strange events, including the appearance of Cenobite leader Pinhead (Doug Bradley), and he learns more about himself, i.e. not being a good man having cheated on his wife with various women, and he tries to get rid of the thought of Kirsty using the puzzle box, the Lament Configuration. Before she disappears however she offers a deal to Pinhead, offering him five souls in exchange for hers, so she kills three of Trevor's mistresses and one of his friends, the friend in fact conspired to kill her for her fortune. Learning his true past shocks Trevor, and in an operating theatre he goes to he finds a covered body on the table, he assumes it is Kirsty, but then he is shocked to find it is himself, he is the fifth victim to be taken, and he has been living in limbo all the time. Discovering his past and put things back together was a mental punishment for disloyalty to his wife and self denial, so he is finally taken by force with Pinhead to spend eternity in Hell, while Kirsty is still alive, walks away from the crime scene, the river, with the puzzle box, and Trevor is made responsible for the murders, and he was apparently shot in the head. Also starring Rachel Hayward as Allison, Sarah-Jane Redmond as Gwen, Jody Thompson as Tawny, Kaaren De Zilva as Sage, William S. Taylor as Detective Lange and Michael Rogers as Detective Givens. Winters is dull to be a victim or leading man, Laurence is hardly used at all and is unconvincing, and Bradley is only on screen for short moments as Pinhead, the story is hardly worth the effort at all, it is trying too much to be like a crime film, with hardly any gore or torture to grip you it is a rubbish and pointless horror mystery thriller. Pretty poor!

...about this sequel not as good as the one before, I thought it was better then the fourth movie in the series for so far.The most of the movie. I was really confused, as the movie kept on going, I just kept on getting more and more confused..I did not understand what the hell was going for most of the movie, I just found the whole movie to be very bizarre.I did not find that boring, there were some dull parts that drag on bit but that really, found this sequel well worth watching.I Clad that Kirsty returned in this movie to have a connections to the early movies in the seriesI really liked the the ending, it really took me by surprised as did not seeing coming at all,Over I thought it was very decent sequel but it did not have many bloody moment in this at all, i thought it even less gory then one before, which had very little gory in it.I give this 5 out of 10