Best movie of this year hands down!

I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Series creator Mick Garris, of "The Stand " and "Desperation " fame, adapts his own short story about the ultimate romance in the realm of the senses as his psychologically twisted but surprisingly horror-lite entry in the show's first season that marks him out as a real master beyond sequels and Stephen King adaptations.Henry Thomas provides a suitably shambolic central performance with the sensational Lucie Laurier as the object of his long-distance affections and able support from Stacy Grant, Leah Graham and genre veteran Matt Frewer on top comedic form as an ageing wannabe punk guitarist.The master of masters builds the suspense slowly, perhaps a little too slowly, in this unconventional romance with an archetype of loneliness at its core, meaning that when the disappointingly conventional conclusion finally does arrive it feels a fast, furious and somewhat unfulfilling end to the affair.I just kept tasting someone else's chocolate.

This is easily one of the most confusing – and dreary – entries in the MOH series: a divorced young American (Henry Thomas, the boy from E.T. [1982]!) unaccountably finds himself feeling everything that a woman – a complete stranger to him and a Canadian resident to boot – is going through (including her sexual activity!). What could have easily been developed into a perceptive black comedy comes across as very silly indeed and, as I said, ends up making no sense whatsoever! Eventually, the hero gets to meet the lady of his 'dreams' – by which time she has committed a murder and, of course, he falls in love with her; however, their relationship can never work properly…since she is unable to lead any sort of private life, and it all concludes on a sour note with Thomas shooting the girl dead. The title, by the way, is a reference to the fact that his sensation of eating chocolate (when he had had none) was the first indication for Thomas that something was amiss; equally tangential, then, is the subplot involving his co-worker – a middle-aged wannabe rocker who embarrassingly sports a red Mohawk during his stage act!

Masters of Horror: Chocolate starts as recently the divorced Jamie (Henry Thomas) wakes up one morning with the taste of chocolate in his mouth for no apparent reason, then shortly after his own hearing goes & finally his sight which are replaced with those from a mysterious woman whom he falls in love with. However this psychic connection isn't all good as while 'inside her' he witnesses her commit a murder, Jamie is now determined to track her down & get to the bottom of everything...This Canadian American co-production was episode 5 from season 1 of the hit-and-miss Masters of Horror TV series, the first of two episodes so far to be directed by the show's creator & regular producer Mick Garris this particular story didn't do much for me. The script by Garris based on his own short story could be described as When Harry Met Sally... (1989) crossed with Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) & as far as I'm concerned it's not a match made in heaven. I will concede that the basic story is quite good but I found it rather slow going, I was disappointed by the lack of horror & supernatural elements as it plays more like a straight thriller & overall Chocolate never really drew me in. The mystery side of things are OK but the viewer knows who committed the murder so in that regard it's not exactly a mystery & I felt the ending is rather abrupt & unsatisfactory. Still, at least it's not as bad as The Screwfly Solution from season 2.Director Garris does a good job, it looks nice enough although it's not the most visually stylish 60 odd minutes ever committed to film/video. There is a distinct lack of exploitation in Chocolate despite an amusing scene where Catherine is sexually pleasing herself in the bath with the shower head & Jamie can feel her orgasm, there's the usual female nudity & sex but gore wise all we get is a knife slicing a stomach open & a shot of a spear going through someone's hand. Since Chocolate doesn't really play like a conventional horror film there's no scares or tangible atmosphere.Technically Chocolate is very good, it has nice production values & as usual for Masters of Horror it looks better than most made-for-TV stuff. The acting is alright although Matt Frewer dressed as a punk rocker complete with Mohawk hairdo looks a tad silly.Chocolate isn't the worst Masters of Horror I've seen but yet again it just disappoints as being average at best & boring nonsense at worst, in truth it's maybe somewhere between the two in my opinion. Worth a watch if your a fan of the series but others may want to give it a miss.

Chocolate, from series creator Mick Garris, is a good story. It plays out very well and doesn't fall prey to too many clichés or lapses of logic. The story is told in flashback by our hero Jamie (Henry Thomas) who is recounting how he came to be spattered in blood to an unseen man. The thing that will probably turn off most younger fans of the genre is that Chocolate is very old fashioned in a way. It's all about the slow build. Garris wants you to fully sympathize with Jamie and he's prepared to take his time to build this very one note story until it is perfect. When the bloody finale finally comes it is a bit of a letdown, but the build has been so well done that one is willing to forgive it for its lackluster denouement. All in all Chocolate is an average episode from a capable director who has done far better things. Still, its nice to see something other than a freakshow or gorefest can be included in the series and still be considered horror.