Shuttle (2008)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 11
While this debut by Edward Anderson is economical and occasionally effective, Shuttle offers little catharsis after its tense ride.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
While this debut by Edward Anderson is economical and occasionally effective, Shuttle offers little catharsis after its tense ride.
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A group of returning vacationers boards a late-night shuttle bound for home, but soon finds their journey taking a dark turn in this tale of terror from writer/director Edward Anderson. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Mar 8, 2009 Limited
Apr 7, 2009
Magnolia Pictures
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Peyton List
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Cameron Goodman
Jules -
Tony Curran
Driver -
James Snyder
Seth -
Cullen Douglas
Andy -
Dave Power
Matt
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The film is an efficiently engineered mechanism for creating suspense.
There is no release for the audience, no 'entertainment,' not even much action excitement. Just a remorseless march into the dark.
Shuttle mostly exists, in the words of Alfred Hitchcock, to 'put the audience through it,' but it leaves you in a very different place than where it started and with remarkable economy of effort.
Shuttle is a grim and twisted exercise in high-stress terror that falls just short of the torture-porn subgenre.
If you step aboard Shuttle, be prepared for one heck of a ride filled with suspense, action and ever-escalating terror. With this ingenious thriller, Edward Anderson, who wrote the heist flick Flawless, makes an audacious directorial debut.
A decently twisty indie thriller about hostages lured aboard an airport minivan whose destination is nowhere pleasant.
Boasts a killer premise and better than average acting, so it's all the more disappointing that Anderson proves unable to avoid annoying horror movie pitfalls.
Immediate frights and long-lasting dread are still not quite enough
Bad script. Bad setup. Bad action. No suspense. Yep. This is a stinker
Hop aboard this Shuttle if you're in the mood for one unsettling ride.
The characters are aggressive and mostly smart, the villain is fearsome and hateful, and the premise ('An airport shuttle ride descends into darkness') is brilliantly simple.
Well conceived thriller, Shuttle takes the familiar situation and develops it into terrifying ordeal
Shuttle could have worked but it is so bogged down with clichés and predictable twists that it comes apart at its illogical seams.
When the payoff finally arrives, it seems tasteless not just because of its topicality, but because the shock feels unearned.
A slightly prosaic and tedious, but mostly chilly and intense ride.
Instead of suspense, we get frustration at the stupidity of the characters.
a pile of stinking turpitude
One hell of a terrifying ride ...
Anderson focuses entirely on cat-and-mouse capers, while failing to reflect in any serious way upon the real-world issues that his plot exploits, so the end result is a disappointingly empty exercise in genre.
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The kids all saw it coming, and they just hung around for the free ride to sketchy Mcsketchersville in the middle of ghettotown, USA. Like seriously? The whole setting the film was shot at was sketchy as fuck. It was completely deserted and pitch black with sketchy run down buildings on every block....and no matter how far the kidnapper drove or how many turns he made- they were still in ghettotown. It was so bizarre. Like a place that sketchy would not be that big. It was so weird.
Anyway, the film had no suspense whatsoever since it was so obvious they were all going to die and *SHOCKER* the girls were being sold into the sex trade overseas. Definitely not the best movie, and the acting was nowhere near good.