a pile of stinking turpitude
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03/11/09
Shuttle (2009)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:11
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: While this debut by Edward Anderson is economical and occasionally effective, Shuttle offers little catharsis after its tense ride.
Theatrical Release:Mar 6, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: When Jules (Cameron Goodman) and Mel (Peyton List) return from a girls’ weekend vacation, they find themselves stranded at the airport, late on a rain-drenched night. Wanting just to get home... [More]
Starring: Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, Tony Curran, Cullen Douglas
Director: Edward Anderson
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Reviews for Shuttle
Nasty and dumb, a lot like Hostel without the extreme torture and gore.
03/05/09
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.
03/09/09
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.
03/12/09
Top CriticThe film is an efficiently engineered mechanism for creating suspense.
03/19/09
Top CriticBoasts 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.
09/07/09
There is no release for the audience, no 'entertainment,' not even much action excitement. Just a remorseless march into the dark.
03/19/09
Top CriticShuttle is a grim and twisted exercise in high-stress terror that falls just short of the torture-porn subgenre.
03/12/09
One hell of a terrifying ride ...
03/11/09
A decently twisty indie thriller about hostages lured aboard an airport minivan whose destination is nowhere pleasant.
02/27/09
Top CriticImmediate frights and long-lasting dread are still not quite enough
04/21/09
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.
03/30/09
A slightly prosaic and tedious, but mostly chilly and intense ride.
03/15/09
Solid, effective and perfect for date night.
03/06/09
Shuttle could have worked but it is so bogged down with clichés and predictable twists that it comes apart at its illogical seams.
03/19/09
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.
03/06/09
Top CriticWhen the payoff finally arrives, it seems tasteless not just because of its topicality, but because the shock feels unearned.
03/19/09
Hop aboard this Shuttle if you're in the mood for one unsettling ride.
04/02/09
Well conceived thriller, Shuttle takes the familiar situation and develops it into terrifying ordeal
03/21/09
Instead of suspense, we get frustration at the stupidity of the characters.
03/12/09
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