Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Alicia I love this movie so much

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

mukhdarab This movie wasn't scary. It had creepy elements in it, but it wasn't a horror film. It's more of a Psychological Mystery and Romance. Unique and even had elements of Shutter Island vibes.

Gareth Crook 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.

zkonedog A movie like "Stonehearst Asylum" is a mystery to me...not only for its content, but also for the fact that it is known by so few people. It didn't get a major theater release (did it come to any theaters at all?) despite having a great story and an excellent cast.For a basic plot summary, this movie takes place at an insane asylum just as the 19th century is turning into the 20th. A young doctor by the name of Edward Newgate (Jim Sturgess) is finishing his medical training in the study of the insane, and desperately needs some clinical observation and experience. As such, he arrives at Stonehearst and is mentored by the chief doctor of the facility (played by Ben Kingsley). Edward also is rather taken with a female patient named Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale), who has seizures at the touch of a man. As Edward begins his rounds, however, he starts to discover that Stonehearst holds a number of secrets that his trainer may not be totally revealing of...especially the people locked in the cellar.I wish I could say more about "Stonehearst Asylum", but (much like, say, "Shutter Island"), it is the type of movie that you don't want spoiled before you view it. It isn't quite in my "favorites of all-time" category, but it more than held my interest and was very much an enjoyable experience to watch. A mystery that also examines the treatment of the mentally insane during that time period, as well as plenty of adventure to keep the plot moving.I will say this about "Stonehearst", however: DO NOT give up on it before the very end. It is the type of movie that you won't fully understand until the credits roll after the final scene. You just have to use a little patience in that regard. There may be things along the way that you don't understand or that seem too strange to be true, but trust me in that everything is worked out in the end.Overall, "Stonehearst Asylum" is a very solid movie that I can't, for the life of me, understand why it didn't at least get a decent theater release. Perhaps because it doesn't appeal to a "specific target audience" (in my mind, one of the BEST aspects of predicting a good film). It's a shame, as many people would enjoy this film if they only knew it existed!

John Brown This is a decent film with some good performances. It isn't earth shattering but it does have good points.There's no loud intrusive noise, otherwise known as 'music'. Ben Kingsley is suitably menacing and clearly the star of the film while David Thewlis is a suitably menacing supporter if only seen a couple of times. Kate Beckinsale does well as the wrongly (?) committed love interest though strangely none of the villains, nor anyone else, seems to notice her connection with the good 'Doctor' Newgate or that she seems to be totally sane. Jim Sturgess does what Jim Sturgess does and that doesn't need much acting.But the film takes a long time to get going, at least the first 60 minutes are rather slow. From then it becomes more interesting though it does still seem to be a little episodic.The film claims to be based on a short story by one of the great short story writers, Edgar Allan Poe, but adapting a story of a few pages to the 'Big Screen' is always fraught with difficulty. This one goes down as a reasonable, though somewhat uninspiring, attempt, although the ending is unexpected and well done.My vote is lifted to 6 only by the villainous performance of Ben Kingsley as the whole film eventually becomes rather too ridiculous. Kate Beckinsale, supposedly a gentile lady of the first half of the 19th century, head-butting an aggressor really doesn't work.It is watchable and not a bad film. However, it is far from a great one.