That was an excellent one.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

"Anna" or "Mindscape" is a story about John Washington (Mark Strong), a memory detective. John, like some others, have the ability to access people's memories with the use of a device and some ESP powers. Recently John has had some problems as his own memories about his dead wife have been interfering with his work.John has been given the job of Anna (Taissa Farmiga) the daughter of a very wealthy family. She is 16 and is on a hunger strike. She is extremely intelligent i.e. "off the charts" and gifted. Her step-father (Richard Dillane) believes she is "haunting." With a step-dad and a teen daughter, our minds always go there, but in this film we are dealing with a far more complex issue.John enters Anna's memories, which makes things more complex as her memories don't seem to fit the facts...or do they? The film is a mystery as we, like John, attempt to figure out if Anna is the victim or perpetrator.It is a good mystery. Anna draws us in with her intellect. The color red plays a role as the color of blood, roses, dark room, and John's beach house.May be too slow for some people. Parental Guide: 1-2 F-bombs. Brief photo nudity. Adult themes.

The trailer really got me into watching this movie. I like the idea of memory traveling, the casts, the vibe that the movie gave, the settings, and John's personal problem. I think this movie had a potential. However, towards the end there are some unexplained plots. It would be great if the movie also gave the detail for characters like: "mousey", the 3 girls, and John's wife so that people don't have to speculate or search for the movie detail.

In this confusing mystery thriller, Mark Strong is John Washington, a man capable of entering the memories of others by holding hands with them and processing some inscrutable kind of mystical humbug. Strong is tall man with staring eyes. He never smiles. And he wears a trendy day's growth of hair both on his face and his nearly bald head. For a professional soothsayer he dresses all in black like someone who frequents biker bars. I frankly don't get this style, which is common on the screen these days. Is this how they dress on Rodeo Drive? I ask because I never see anyone dressed like this on the streets. That about ends my sartorial column for the day.He's nearly broke and still mourning his wife but reluctantly takes on the case of a troubled sixteen-year-old girl, Anna, who was expelled from a tony prep school and now lives at home in her parents mansion. She claims to want to get away from all this. There is no cogent explanation provided of exactly why she would want to get away from a life of luxury, but there it is. Her parents, she claims, are keeping her prisoner. Her step father, who may or may not have abused her, wants to send her to an institution where "she can be properly cared for." Is she lying? Is she mentally ill? It's Strong's job to find out by sharing her memories.Anna is played by Taissa Farmiga, Vera's younger sister, whom she only resembles when regarded from certain angles. Her outstanding feature is her paradoxically penetrating and helpless eyes, large and moist and clear. She's also quite attractive in a teen-age way, and looks rather like one of the more popular girls in your high school chemistry class. But hers is the kind of beauty that is fungible and can quickly be exchanged for a thirty-year stretch in San Quentin. All you'd have to do is what any normal man would do, a light touch of that delicate shoulder and, poof, you're doing drawings of the bars of your cage.Her acting ability is hard to judge, unlike Vera's, which is exceptional. Her character is more or less locked into the role. She plays a talented artistic girl, very bright and very savvy, and her lines are delivered with a kind of chop, spoken quickly and in a monotone, as if she'd been born not in New Jersey but in the San Fernando Valley.Given these strictures, she handles the role quite well, and although the contours of her features aren't as engagingly asymmetrical as those of her sister, who, in certain photographs, looks like Venus rising from the sea, it would be interesting to see more of Taissa Farmiga. That's pronounced Far-MEE-gah, by the way, a Ukranian name.I've kind of skipped the plot for the simple reason that I don't understand it.Man -- did this script need some tightening. It appears that when Strong taps into Farmiga's memories of childhood and school, while he's trying to figure out what's wrong with her, her memories come and go in flashes and they can be lies. How can a memory lie? Well, in actual fact, they lie all the time to fit certain narratives we construct for ourselves.No evidence is more powerful in a courtroom than a witness standing up, point at the suspect, and saying, "I saw him do it." Yet, as Elizabeth Loftus and others have amply demonstrated, eyewitness testimonies suck. And if we can unwittingly fabricate memories about others, imagine the parade of fantasies that make up our own image of ourselves, in which we have so much invested.It could have been a fascinating story and in some ways it's well done. At least the director has kept the glitz to a minimum and has handed the camera to someone who doesn't hold it as if he were a spazz. But the writers should be sent to bed without supper and expelled from school.

Mindscape is a movie where You as the viewer should pay close attention and try figuring out whats going on. I would recommend watching this alone so you can immerse yourself fully into it. This film does not explain everything in the first 5 minutes, it wants you to follow, so don't give up and you will be rewarded. Watch it twice if you have questions (I had a lot), but thats the whole charm of it, a movie you think about longer than you watch it. Besides that, the movie is beautiful shot well directed and has very good actors despite the fact that I did not know all of them which is kind of refreshing.This is a definitive must watch 8/10.