Shuttle (2008)

Awesome Movie

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I see there are a few very highly-rated responses to this film. I have to assume they are from cast or crew members. This is an abysmal attempt at making a horror movie, full of nonsense and unrealistic situations. It's not only the bus driver who is crazy and freaked-out ! 1/10

Despite it's predicabilities, some amateurish bits, more patchy ones from an average script, (a lot of bad, write as you go dialogue, some you can't believe, honestly) Shuttle still manages to come out good, thanks to it's plot, and dark disturbing themes, closer to it's end. Two girlfriends, worn and wearied, from last get together, before one of ties the knot, just wants to get home, only making one dreaded mistake of taking a shuttle, driven by a party who have much more grave plans for our two hotties. Two guys, innocents, who also board the shuttle, just want to get in their pants, so we automatically know what ensues for them. There are a two thrilling moments, one impactful you might say, but really we the audience are more interested in the fate that awaits the girls. One scene may lose you where one girl is forced to dismount the shuttle and buy twenty dollars worth of items. Too, these girls don't listen when ordered not to get out of line. Of course, I knew all about the movie beforehand, and how it eventuated, but I thought there would of been much more to it. The last fifteen grueling minutes, are disturbingly scarring. They will stay in your mind, like a bad aftertaste, in a much grim ending, where I must say, one hasn't affected me like this, for many years. Like I said, the dodgy film can't hide quite a lot of amateurism, but the movie's one hell of a ride, you'll never forget, the final minutes is an all too real example of how slave traders operate, where the film becomes so real. The final scene, one that stays with you, is a killer one, that was imperative to have.

probably this movie could had been a good candidate for the worst movie of the year in 2008.I'll go straight to the main course with no gravy at all. act is bad,director/writer is bad,story line is broken in a great number,character development non,,mistake after mistake all along the length of the movie. you don't see any cars or traffic in any part of the streets in New York for hours.things are left unwrapped.there is no cops in New York what so ever. kidnappers been doing their job-according to the number of ID cards found in his drawer-without any problem for a long time.apparently you can ship human packed and racked in a box right through the NY harbour without customs authorities bugging you. you can colour your hair from dark brown to blond in the sink of the kidnappers' basement in 10 seconds all styled.you can get cut a few times and you got a bullet in your chest and no problem you can still function properly.and list goes on.

The movie starts out pretty good and I have to say its well acted and will keep you fairly entertained for the first forty minutes or so. However half way through the victims start turning the tables, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times (maybe more, I wasn't really counting) and don't kill this guy or incapacitate him to the point where he is no longer a danger. Their refusal to do this is stunning considering he severed all the fingers in one guy's hands, ran over the other guy, almost suffocated one girl, and had the first guys throat slashed. Despite his ineptness, the villain couldn't fail because he had everything going for him (his victims were incredibly stupid, he had more lives than Michael Myers, and he had superhuman powers that allowed him to survive and heal whenever he got hurt along with the ability to magically show up in the right place at the right time throughout the entire movie). By the end of the movie I was cheering for the villain because the supposed hereon was so inept I figured she deserved to die. Thank God the movie ended the way it did, because it would have been very frustrating, and even more unbelievable, if she was able to pull off an escape in the 11th hour (when it was more impossible than ever) considering that she had multiple opportunities throughout the movie and refused to act. At least she stayed consistent and didn't finish the guy off in her final attempt. On the other hand, the villain was pretty inept also in that he allowed his victims to gain the upper hand so many times that it was making me dizzy. Heck, there's one scene that shows a drawer full of drivers licenses of all the women that this guy abducted over the past five years. How could this have been? After five years of experience these two girls got the upper hand so many times that I can't believe no one had overtaken this guy in his prior attempts. Basically, this movie was like watching a battle between dumb and dumber and wondering which one would come out on top.