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Writer/director Wolfgang Petersen (Air Force One, In the Line of Fire) cranks up the suspense in this riveting thriller that will "keep you guessing [up until its] shockingly unexpectedending" (The Washington Post)! A stellar castincluding Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Corbin Bernsenbreathes life into this gripping film noir about the survivor of a car accident who begins to suspect his near-death was no accident. Dan Merrick (Berenger) struggles to reconstruct his life after a disfiguring accident leaves him without much of a memoryand in the care of a wife (Scacchi) and friends
Writer/director Wolfgang Petersen (Air Force One, In the Line of Fire) cranks up the suspense in this riveting thriller that will "keep you guessing [up until its] shockingly unexpectedending" (The Washington Post)! A stellar castincluding Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Corbin Bernsenbreathes life into this gripping film noir about the survivor of a car accident who begins to suspect his near-death was no accident. Dan Merrick (Berenger) struggles to reconstruct his life after a disfiguring accident leaves him without much of a memoryand in the care of a wife (Scacchi) and friends who seem to be repainting his past! And as Merrick begins to reconstruct his life, strange flashes of memory begin to surface, each drawing him further into a maze of corruption that could prove more deadly than any accident!
Tom Berenger stars as an amnesiac who investigates his life before a car wreck took his memory, and finds that things were not all they should have been. The promising mystery gets less interesting as the script becomes more perfunctorily complicated, and a crucial plot twist toward the end throws the story onto a different track rather than letting the existing one grow richer through better characters. People don't count as much as surprises do in this film, so in that sense Shattered is a passable potboiler, no more and no less. Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire) capably directs, but even he can't work depth into the margins. Solid supporting performances from Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. --Tom Keogh
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release date: 3 June 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780792855873 UPC: 027616886637
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