CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

sankhan99 Rating is always been debatable starting from censor certificate to IMDb. In my opinion this title in review is highly under-rated. This is completely an edge of seat suspense thriller. Story is full of twists and very entertaining. I am in no position to discuss direction as director is considered authority in his field.Many people will criticize that story in unrealistic and this thing is not possible in real world then I say to them if you want reality look around you. If you want some thing beyond reality then go to cinema.Few words on film, Its highly entertaining. Every scene and every dialogue matters. It will keep you guessing and its my challenge that how intelligent you are or you have read and seen many mystery thriller, still you won't be able to guess the end correctly. If you don't believe me, then try it yourself. You will not be disappointed.I've given it 8 because of God father otherwise only for mystery genre this movie deserves 9.5

Michael Neumann The acclaimed director of 'Das Boot' shows off his Hollywood Hack credentials with this empty-headed, bargain-basement Hitchcock plagiarism. Tom Berenger stars as a car crash survivor, with no memory of his life beforehand (a moot point, since the script never bothers to give him one), who begins to suspect his beautiful wife may have tried to kill him. He hires pet store owner/private detective Bob Hoskins to find the truth, which when finally revealed is so far-fetched and so illogical it may strain the credulity of even the most undemanding viewer. Northern California audiences may enjoy watching Peterson play fast and loose with his San Francisco Bay area locations, moving a shipwrecked tanker from under the Marin County headlands in one scene to the opposite side of the Golden Gate in another, and rearranging city streets to suit his camera set-ups. Nitpicky details, to be sure, but if a filmmaker can't be troubled by the little things he's not likely to bother with larger issues of plot or character credibility either, and as a result there isn't a single moment here that doesn't ring false.

oneguyrambling There was a time when a single hook or twist would justify the creation of a movie - that time was called the 1980s and early 90s.Aaaahhhh, the 80s, when action movies knew they were pointless, TV was a minor distraction and Tom Berenger was one of the most reliable guys going around.Shattered starts off with a car flying off a cliff, the occupants of the wreck are taken to hospital, where the wife is told that her husband's status is touch and go, and when I say touch and go she is basically told in very blunt terms that he is going to die, (some bedside manner doc!) Anyway of course the hubby lives, although he is messed up and needs extensive surgery to reconstruct his facial features - obviously no airbags in the car. Tom is the hubby Dan, and Greta Scacchi plays his wife Judith who is with him through every step of his rehab.One of those steps is to be in one of the cheesiest sex scenes in film history, replete with actual footage of waves crashing in between their lurve.So Dan gets out of hospital, a bit proppy and with a case of amnesia, and finds out that the bastard is rich, with a big ass house and a partnership in a large and successful company.Over the coming weeks Dan's interactions with his wife and close friends (and business partners) Jeb, (Corbin Bernsen) and his wife Jenny bring different versions and viewpoints regarding many aspects of Dan's life up to and including the night of the accident. These include the allegations that Judith was having an affair with a guy named Jack Stanton, and that she and Dan were headed for divorce.So Dan goes through Judith's diary to find out what's going on and is lead to a local pet store, where Bob Hoskins runs the show as a part-time private investigator.The ensuing investigations lead Dan to believe that someone tried to kill him for his cash, and the remainder of the movie takes him through all the twists, turns and revelations necessary in an 80s thriller.I can't explain much more without giving stuff away, suffice to say you'll never see the end coming… unless you do.Dan has itty-bitty partial flashbacks that are sometimes random and sometimes triggered by what he sees and hears. Shattered is a bit overblown, think Basic Instinct style where everyone takes everything way too seriously and everyone is beautiful except for sidekicks and quirky characters where it is necessary that they be ugly. It's almost hyper-real at times.One point though, twenty odd years ago Greta Schacci had a rig that is almost not believable, notice I didn't say unbelievable, although it is that too.Final Rating 6 / 10. It's OK I guess, but this is a paint by numbers thriller without any notable scenes.If you liked this (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com

preppy-3 Dan Merrick (Tom Berenger) and wife Judith (Greta Scacchi) are in a car accident. She escapes without a scratch but he's totally disfigured and has total amnesia. His wife has his face reconstructed, but he still has no clues about his former life. Then he discovers his marriage may have not been so happy and hires Gus Klein (Bob Hoskins) to investigate.This film is very good for the first 2/3rds. It's well directed, moves quickly, has a great scene that makes good use of the song "Nights in White Satin" and is never dull. The acting isn't bad--Berenger was never a great actor but he pulls this role off; Scacchi is very good (until the end) and Hoskins is just great and brings a welcome note of humor to the film. Corbin Bensen and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer are wasted however. This all works fine--until the final plot twist. At first it seems like a real cool twist...but then you think about it. It's so ridiculously implausible that it derails the entire movie. I had more than a few questions about it but the movie leaves then hanging. There is NO way this would have worked. As one character says, "I knew it was crazy". Indeed. Still the film is good until that part and worth watching for the first two sections. For that alone I give this an 8.