Broken (Unrated)
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Movie Reviews of Broken (Unrated)
Movie Review: This Was A Joke, Right?
Summary: 2 Stars
Description leads you to believe there's lots of torture and sadistic scenes in this movie, but the "series" of events is over in like the first 10-15 minutes of the film. Then you're treated to an hour of the most trying, dull scenes in horror film history. The people who gave this 4 or 5 stars must've never seen a decent horror flick, because this failed on the psychological front as well as the violence front. Two cringe-inducing scenes and that's it. They were pretty cool though, hence the two stars rather than one. Some annoying whimpering that we could've done without. The kidnapper was a cross between Crocodile Dundee and Indiana Jones dress wise. Personality wise, he was just dull dull dull. I dunno, man. This premise could've worked, and should have. The lead woman was sexy enough, but we never get to see her naked. Disappointing. So many scenes just rang untrue, and bringing in the 2nd girl was ridiculous. Only one person dies, and she's a minor character. I thought the ending was hilarious! This should not be in the horror section on the rental store. It should be in gardening.Movie Review: saw in the woods?
Summary: 2 Stars
Is the only way to describe this,though its no where near as clever as any of the saw films.The beginning of this movie shows Hope(a single mom) on a date.Next thing we know she wakes up buried alive not knowing what has happened to or where her daugher is..A man lets her out kind of only to tie her up to a tree and tell her she must cut it out to survive.This scene where she cuts out some of her own intestines is really the only good part of the movie.There are some other bloody moments where a shin bone gets smashed.We never really get any backstory on the man who captured her but we do find out he has some other victims.They kind of develop an odd relationship and eventually it comes to a boiling point with a twisted ending.Overall it had promise but ends up being rather slow and boring.Rent this if you can't find anything but don't buy thisMovie Review: Almost there....
Summary: 2 Stars
Really tried to like this movie. It had so much potential but ultimately falls really short. Everything about it is somewhat decent. But the glaring stupidity of the plot really gets to you.
For gorehounds out there - stay away. There is none.
Don't believe the hype about this being brutal, scary, disturbing etc.....
You can do worse if there is nothing left to rent.
The best part of the movie was the haunting music from Mortiis. It added the only element of emotion.
Movie Review: NOT BAD
Summary: 2 Stars
THIS MOVIE IS ENTERTAINING. BROKEN STARTS OFF LIKE IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOVIE. THIS MOVIE IS STRANGE. YOU WONDER IF YOUR BEING HELD CAPTIVE FOR A STUPID REASON AND YOU HAD ONE CHANCE TO GET AWAY AND DIDN'T TAKE IT AFTER ALL THE TORTURE YOU WENT THROUGH, THEN YOU NEED TO BE DEAD! SOME GORY PARTS...Movie Review: The Actresses' Motivation: "Don't EVER shut up!"
Summary: 1 Stars
While browsing through the DVDs at my video store, this one caught my eye for three reasons:
1) The cover art closely resembles an awesome French flick called "Inside" ("A l'interieur")-- which I recommend to any extreme horror fan
2) The Dimension EXTREME logo at the top, which has delivered some awesome titles ("Eden Lake", the aforementioned "Inside", and "Storm Warning")
3) The glowing reviews written all over the box which claim it makes "Saw" look like child's play and that it had won several awards at film fests
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Well, let me say, as the box compares it to "Saw", it's as if "Broken" writer/director took EVERYTHING that made "Saw" a quality movie, did the opposite of it, and crafted possibly one of the worst horror films I have ever seen. I can't even qualify as fully seeing it. It was so abhorrent I couldn't watch it passed the 50-minute mark. I doubt I missed anything ground-breaking.
The acting is some of the most dreadful, desperate attempts I've ever seen. It's no wonder both the actress (Nadja Brand) who played Hope and the nameless torturer (Eric Colvin) have never had any work after the production of this abomination. Hope is our story's protagonist, and during the oh-so tame "torture" scenes we're supposed to root for her, but literally all she does is whimper and bitch throughout the whole movie, and there is about three minutes of character development before she is captured so we don't even know her character to sympatheize with. Needless to say I was hoping she would die the most brutal way possible. I couldn't even bear to follow through to see if she got away or not. Here's to hoping she was burned alive or something.
The antagonist says about 30 words throughout the film, and it's usually two- or three-word demands at Hope to 'wash this' or 'clean that'. I guess he lives in the woods that he holds Hope captive? We don't really know. We basically know nothing at all. Including who he is, why he tortures people, why he chose Hope, how he captured her, what the point of sewing a razor into her stomach was, and why the hell he insists on wearing this ugly hat. It really isn't menacing at all. In fact, there's nothing menacing about him. He is contrived, utterly cheesy, generic and completely baseless. If Hope were to get away in the movie, the only good thing that would come of it would be she would probably kill this guy. It's too bad they both weren't being tortured.
The gore that there is is nice, I will give it that. The setting is pretty nice-looking as well. But the camera work is about as lacklustre as the characters' acting so the nice surrounding is rendered pointless.
Pointless like this movie.
Please, please, PLEASE don't buy this. Don't even rent it. Don't contribute any of your money towards these people so they can think they did a quality job, or even worse, make another film.
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