Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I suppose most of us have come across one of those recent movies in which some powerful and smug person -- an executive or a big-time agent -- is trapped by a sniper in an open public space and forced to confess his or her sins to everyone involved. For poor Colin Farrell it was a telephone booth. For the sultry but shady Linda Fiorentino, it meant being chained to a hot dog cart.Somebody in Hollywood, probably with an MBA degree, must have figured out that it would be more exciting if the trapped character (or characters!) were forced not only to say things but to actually DO things. Of course you can't be coerced into driving around the city and humiliating yourself because a sniper has you in his cross hairs. But the solution is obvious. You hold the bourgeois couple's daughter hostage and threaten to slaughter the little girl unless your orders are obeyed at once or, better yet, within some time limit, with a clock ticking away and the little girl's death at the end.That about sums up the plot of "Shattered." Husband and wife leave the daughter at home in care of a babysitter, a stooge of the maniacal villain Peirce Brosnan. As Gerard Butler and Maria Belo drive away from their home, Brosnan pops up from the back seat, shoves a pistol against Butler's head and shouts "Keep driving!," while the camera and the editor go mad. This movie is weighty with messages and this is the first of several: Always check in the back seat because lunatics and murderers hide there. Later, we'll learn never to enter a dark room without flipping the light switch next to the door.There's a good deal of tension, naturally. but some of it seems forced. The husband, Gerard Butler, a tremendous success at his executive-type job (he cheats), sometimes acts positively hysterical while trying to talk about his little daughter. Men don't get hysterical like that. Men face firing squads with a smile on their faces and a glint of defiance in their eyes. They don't CRY. But then the whole movie is slightly askew like that. There is one of those scenes in which a man finally finds someone in a position of authority to whom he must tell his complicated tale. And instead of laying out a logical, chronological, path of events, he becomes nervous, confused, gemischt, and what comes out is a kind of ludicrous word salad. The authorities, in this case the police, of course misinterpret what he's trying to get across.Let me quit this. It's a little depressing. It's poorly written, edited, and directed. The performances are within the bounds of professional possibility parameters. The casting is well done too. Butler isn't staggeringly handsome, and Maria Bello is attractive without inducing the kind of numb adoration that comes with someone like Nicole Kidman at her glamorous best. Butler and Belo look like an ordinary married couple that might be standing in front of you at the supermarket checkout counter.I said it was "poorly written." Watch the ending, in which it's revealed that the arrangement was an intricate set up designed to punish someone for important but still venial sins. Then tell me I'm wrong.

This was a entertaining film keeps you in your toes the whole time. A sharp thriller with some good ideas and a great turn at the end! Reminded me of Ransom in parts but not as polished but still good! Good chemistry between the actors but what do you expect from the trio! I liked the way it was filmed and the whole vibe.For sure see this one when you have chance.A neat thriller that keeps you in the whole time.I did not hear much on this film but glad I caught it.I think it was marketed badly because I never heard of it till on Amazon! Anyone who likes a taught thriller will like this.

This is good thriller. I would recommend this.It would always keep you guessing during the movie. Acting was good. Music was nice and it makes movie more attractive. Pierce Brosnan in the movie but it is not like Bond movies, it is different. The story is good with good script and screenplay. There is no such movies like this in past. I expect more movies like come in future. The suspense part of the movie is key. It would keep you bind till the end and that is the important thing of this movie.However,the climax could have been better.But this is nice movie to watch during the weekend.

This movie is literally one of the worst I have ever seen. I don't even know where to start.With the awful plot that makes no sense after the first 10 minutes? With the motivation for the kidnapping that was pretty much revealed in the first 10 minutes? That is if you are not braindead it's pretty easy to figure out.Great acting? I always thought of Brosnan as a respectable actor but not anymore.And nobody should be surprised by the ending.Sometimes you just want to pick up a movie for the evening and you don't expect to much.But after watching this I am actually angry I wasted my time on this.How could anyone greenlight this?