Shattered | 
| Director: Mike Barker
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, Maria Bello, Claudette Mink
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 9198
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 22259
UPC: 031398222590
EAN: 0031398222590
ASIN: B000WP07F6
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: December 25, 2007
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Product Description
Neil (Gerard Butler) and Abby (Maria Bello) have a perfect marriage and a worry-free life until their young daughter goes missing and a strange gunman (Pierce Brosnan) named Ryan shows up. Clearly masterminding the kidnapping Ryan insists the couple perform various tasks for him in order to protect their child from any harm. After they've committed to multiple strenuous orders Ryan escalates to a request that may be impossible to fulfill. System Requirements:Run time: 94 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 031398222590 Manufacturer No: 22259
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Pierce Brosnan takes a step away from James Bond with his malevolent role in Shattered. Neil Randall (Gerard Butler) seems a loving father and the perfect husband for his happy wife Abby (Maria Bello). But when the two leave their daughter with a babysitter and drive off, a man with a gun (Brosnan) appears in their backseat and puts them through a series of tests that threaten to destroy their marriage. Shattered is a taut little thriller that comes to a not entirely satisfying end; once we learn what's behind the kidnapper's games, the air goes out of the movie. But as it goes along, Shattered has a lot of momentum, mystery, and tension, and the solid cast keeps the emotions gritty and intense. Brosnan works his steely-eyed squint, Butler practically foams at the mouth with repressed rage, and Bello manages to be frightened, determined, and sexy, all at the same time. Keep your expectations low and Shattered will be an enjoyable thriller. --Bret Fetzer
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 Good acting, poor story... June 4, 2009
Shopper (USA)
Why pay three good actors and then waste their talent on something so trivial?
A child of a well off couple is kidnapped. The parents (Butler and Bello) and the kidnapper (Brosnan) engage in a game: the kidnapper has them complete certain tasks in exchange for their daughter's life. Soon though, the parents realize that the tasks, while laying ruin to their own lives, bring no true advantage to the brute. But, all is not what it seems...
While the seed of the idea is fantastic, it needs a Hitchcock level of skill before it can be transported into the "gripping-thriller territory". As it is, there are some severe holes in the plot that make the entire story unconvincing. I was never sold on the fact that the couple should have felt threatened to the point of obeying the kidnapper unquestioningly. Without this credibility, the entire story collapses. No story, no film...
Furthermore, the movie does have a made-for-tv feel (it could be a good play...). I find it visually challenging as well, due to the monotonous colors: it is difficult to tell settings apart (with the exception of the all white interiors of the "competition" office).
Skip it, unless you are a die hard fan of any of the three actors. Then check it off your list and move on quickly...
 The Game Of Life (And Death)... May 9, 2009
Bindy Sue Fronkuenschtein (under the rubble)
I love thrillers, especially when they keep me guessing right up to the end. SHATTERED is such a film. I would think I had it figured out, only to realize I had it all wrong. Neil (Gerard Butler) and his wife, Abby (Maria Bello from The Dark, A Hstory Of Violence) are taken hostage by a madman (Pierce Brosnan) who seems to know everything about their lives. The couple's young daughter has also been abducted separately. Neil and Abby are led through a series of career / life-destroying tasks by their new nemesis. However, appearances are very deceiving! SHATTERED has a unique pay-off that I never saw coming. Brosnan is exceptional in his ruthless role. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but he's truly unhinged here. Hopefully, this movie will do for him what MR. BROOKS did for Kevin Costner. Check it out...
A profoundly thrilling story about the consequences of character and the choices we make in life! April 20, 2009
Emanuel Perdis (NSW Australia)
This is a movie that will let you see one thing, and then another, and keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through.
You will not want to see it just once. It invites discussion and a deep search into ones own moral universe about what is right or wrong in life, marriage and work!
I LOVED this film very, very much and feel it should be watched at school and used as a counselling aid by therapists. All the actors did a great job with their roles and their range of expressions are stretched to the limits.....
Anyone married to a "Player" personality MUST watch this!!
Very good with maybe a twist or two too many March 4, 2009
Yoga Punguin (USA)
A lot of people weren't too impressed with this but if you're sick of noisy, gory movies full of explosions, this might keep you in suspense without them. The first time I saw it on DVD I thought the tension was almost unbearable.
I just really enjoyed it and I'm in the middle of watching it again even though I know the twists.
Well worth watching, in my opinion. But... it's all subjective, eh?
 This was a silly film January 31, 2009
Lemas Mitchell (Kunming, Yunnan China)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Short Attention Summary Span:
1. A husband and wife are the ideal couple, with husband working at a big company doing something or another.
2. One day, out of the blue (or so it seems) a guy comes along and kidnaps the daughter of the husband and wife and takes the husband and wife for a ride-- during which he forces them to do his bidding.
3. The Bad Man and the couple spend a lot of time together, with his forcing them to do progressively more humiliating things.
4. Eventually, it reaches a head when it comes out that the husband is having an affair with another woman-- who happens to be the wife of the Bad Man.
5. In the end, it comes out that the whole kidnapping was staged by the wife so that the husband could know what it felt like to lose everything.
Comments:
1. Pierce Brosnan looked extremely silly in this role. Maybe I've seen him in too many 007 movies, but believing him in this role was a real stretch.
2. Can a person really believe that a wife would go through all of this to make a point to her husband?
3. Can a plan like the one executed in this film really have gone off without a hitch? Even though there were SO many people that could have foiled it? Police everywhere. Banks with panic buttons all over the place.
4. The suspense was waaaaayy too drawn out. When you stop to reconsider the movie, the plot was actually pretty thin. Do you mean to tell me that this was turned into a whole movie?
5. The Bad Man gives the husband a gun (to shoot the victim) and the husband doesn't have sense enough to turn it on the Bad Man (who did not have a gun drawn at that time)?
6. What was going on with the quote: "Butterfly on a Wheel"? This was just a bit too esoteric for me-- and likely everyone else in the world.
Save your money. This is not even worth a rental.
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