Shuttle

Disturbing, offensive, disgusting, and brutal. So why 5 stars? Because film is supposed to impact your emotions and this one did -- even if I didn't like it. For an American film, it has certain parts that are expected but some (you'll see) that definitely are not. Some sober lessons to be learned here, but I will not be watching it again.

Shuttle This is a well made movie, and the director manages to keep the pace flowing from the start. The acting is excellent, particularly from the two female leads. The underlying theme of the movie is thought provoking and chilling, but you have to suspend belief that the actual plot could make sense.To criticize the story itself is meaningless - good thriller/horror movies expect us to put aside belief and be entertained, to be grossed out and to empathize with the characters. This movie does that well.It's lack of success at the box office is probably because it is not easily pigeonholed. It's not gross enough to be a horror, and although the plot twists are interesting it's clear what's going on within the first 10 minutes, so it's not a thriller, that said it is definitely worth a view. Recommended.

Why do people have to analyze everything? I was watching it not focusing on the details, but on the whole story. Yes it’s not the Titanic or Walking Dead, but it’s interesting enough. I used to be the same way, criticizing, all clever while sitting on the couch, “why didn’t they do this” or “how couldn’t she see that” “oh man, right behind you!” Sure we are all so brave eating popcorn on a cozy couch. I do believe that even when you get a gun from the bad guy you still may not shoot him, or not shoot dead, or he can still catch you if you run, or overpower you even when you are smacking him hard. Those bad guys have been doing it for years, these girls were just regular girls who came from vacation, same goes for the boys. If we add them being exhausted, hungry, sick, mentally drained, crazy scared, that’s a brutal cocktail. As I was watching I thought too oh well, maybe this or that could’ve been different, but I have no idea how I would’ve behaved! Maybe fighting, maybe sitting terrified quietly. No one knows until we are in their shoes. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard a story from my friends that sounded either stupid or unrealistic and my reaction was “no way!” And how many times I’ve heard “if I wasn’t there myself, I would’ve thought it was some bad movie, you couldn’t come up with it if you tried”. Crazy unbelievable things do happen. I actually was worried they were going to make this a fairytale story where two girls and two boys overpower two criminals and walk into the police station/sunset and later get married. Now that would’ve been a downer. If I wanted it to end with kisses I would’ve watched Cinderella. The way it ended, it’s actually pretty realistic, it happens every day, girls get shipped out even if they attempt to fight, and no one comes to their rescue. The whole story was pretty real and sad. I wasn’t focusing on the details.

This movie takes a psycho kidnapper/killer concept, then mixes in torture, fear invoking violence, a few meaningless twists, then makes it about sort of sexual slavery. In short, if one of these concepts was followed through, this likely could have been a decent lower budget horror/thriller, however the ending makes the first 3/4 of this overly long movie nonsensical. There's no reason the antagonists went through all they did from the start unless torture and fear was their goal. If the ending was the goal, most of the movie could have been condensed into 30 minutes including the backstory. Oh and final spoiler, the antagonist got shot in the left side of the head at the end, after which the blood is on the right and he's still alive. There are a thousand other things to say, but it's pointless to watch.

There are a lot of nonsensical things. Spoilers ahead. For example, if this is a real shuttle, how could they possibly get away with it? It's an airport, for crying out loud. Airports are probably the most secure place to be, and certainly have more than enough cameras. If it isn't a real shuttle, then they would have been arrested by airport police after the first time they tried to kidnap people. Also, although it would have been implausible for the police to find them, what's the point of even including the security camera scene if it amounts to absolutely nothing? There are more things, but this is enough to justify a score lower than 4 stars.On the plus side, the women actually fight back. It's not another movie where women are nonentities that do nothing but take off their clothes and shriek at the top of their lungs. The fighting back is fairly realistic, no instances of women magically killing huge men against whom the vast majority of men would be powerless. It's kind of BS that the male lead is somehow immortal and definitely immune to pain. The ending is incredibly negative. It used to be I was fine with that, but not anymore. It just seems pointless to watch people fighting for their lives for an hour and a half only for it all to be beyond worthless. Ordinarily, I would say two stars, but I'm hedging my bets that my dislike of the type of ending might be coloring my opinion a little.

Overall it was decent, but a little unbelievable

The movie is a bit differnt that the other ones we have seen regarding human trafficing since the viewer gets a chance to see the kidnapper and also how he interacts with the victims. Not all of his interactions are cruel (although most are) and at times we actually felt sorry for him. At times the kidnapper seemed to have some remorse for what he was doing to these people...then once we saw then end...we were like "humm maybe not". We think the actors did well, tension was present throughout the movie, and pacing was smooth. It was also a bit different that the main female thought about her actions. She used some of her job skills to alert the police; yet, she also followed the kidnappers orders and didn't speak to anyone. We thought it was a very well done movie; however, the ending did leave us with a since of dread...just like another reviewer mentioned...they were spot on!

All OK

Puh, ich habe lange nach den Film gesucht, woher der Gedanke an den Film kam möchte ich kaum wissen, den es scheint immer ein funken Wahrheit an jeder Geschichte zu geben!

I loved this film, everyone kept saying how great it was (I was a little dubious about the `secret' ending) and I'm fed up of wasting time watching bad films so I thought I would give it a go. It delivered! I loved the twist (figured it out but it was still fun to watch it play out). I loved the signing too - great seeing a little bit of disability in a mainstream film. And the end was chilling, there's a lot of money in it, so it could actually happen! Obviously there was unnecessary gore and it could have been shorter but it's a horror film, not real life, so I enjoyed it all for what it was. I liked the characters, yes they were all a stereotype but again, it's a horror film, there's no need to waste time giving characters massive amounts of depth and as it was I liked them all enough to not want them to die which is all you need an audience to do.I'm a little confused at the low rated reviews, I thought this was a brilliant film and I have watched a lot of horrors, the points about the characters not trying to escape, well they are trying to stay alive and do take opportunities which turn out badly and get punished for other discrepancies so a point is made that they know the price they pay for messing up is death so they are trying to pick their moments.Regarding the supermarket, she exits, thinks she took too long and her friend has been murdered as threatened, so yes she is a little upset and reacts accordingly.Overall I wonder how differently I would behave if it was me.

Sous un air de film léger, Edward Anderson nous livre un film sans concession sur un sujet trés grave. Je ne vais bien sûr pas vous livrer la fin, mais attendez-vous à du choquant.Mel et Jules sont de belles jeunes filles qui, aprés un long voyage en avion, ne demandent qu'une chose : rentrer chez elles. Personne ne les attend et la solution la plus rapide et la moins chére est la navette de l'aéroport. Le conducteur insiste pour qu'elles montent avec lui. Il y a un homme à l'intérieur, râleur il a toujours un pêt de travers. Deux jeunes hommes veulent se joindre aux jeunes filles, qu'ils ont rencontré quelques instants plus tôt. Le chauffeur accepte non sans réticentes et voilà le groupe emporté vers son destin. Deux personnes n'auraient jamais dûes se trouver dans le bus et vont payer cher leur incursion.Tout est trouble dans ce film, le chauffeur aux allures bienveillantes de premier abord, en passant par le paysage : glauque à l'extrême. Il n'y a pas âmes qui vivent, pas de véhicules, pas de bruits et un éclairage tout droit sortie d'un monde apocalyptique. Tout ce qui se passera durant le trajet est horrible, rien ne sera épargné aux passagers, qui glissent dans l'horreur la plus folle. On se demande si l'histoire aura une fin, ou si c'est un de ces nombreux films ou le prix de la folie n'est juste que la mort. Des rebondissements ponctuent le film, et lentement, au gré des souffrances de ces jeunes nous allons savoir pourquoi le chauffeur agit comme ça. Depuis cinq ans, sa navette est réduite à faire ce trajet...L'aboutissement fait froid dans le dos ! Vraiment bien, même si le sujet est déroutant. Jamais vous ne prendrez la navette à l'avenir, surtout s'il n'y a quasiment personne dedans...

While it might have a familiar theme-unsuspecting strangers get put together to battle for their lives-there are enough twists and turns to keep from getting bored. The acting was good as was the overall quality of the film. It even has a surprise ending.