Shuttle (2008)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I have never even heard about this movie and I decided to give it a watch and Im sure glad I did. The acting is not bad and the storyline is believable. Not what I thought it was going to be but still a good movie. Ignore what everyone says about the ending its one of the best parts. Its their opinion because they get sad.This movie is about 2 friends at the airport on their way back from Mexico. They meet two guys at the airport and they decide to spend sometime together. They catch a shuttle bus to take them into town but the shuttle does not take them to town. The driver takes them on a detour...This movie was good. It was thrilling and very believable. New original story that has not been done before.

This movie gets one star. I should have stuck to my opinion when I said, this movie was not worth recording. I am HIGHLY disappointed with the ending. Cause seriously, the maniac got shot in the head, glass cut deeply within his knee and he got hit with the light thingy or whatever!! Yet he's fighting like nothing happened to him?? It would have been better if at least one person got away. I am so disgusted with this movie and I'm removing it from my dvr. And this movie did not have its own storyline it's plenty of movie out there about trafficking..this one is just told in a different way so, I don't know what that dude is talking about. Anywho, this movie was wack..do NOT watch!!!

So okay here goes. Crazy bus driver takes a handful of 'kids' (late 20s to early 30s) and one timid middle-aged guy, hostage.He threatens them with violence and a gun. But get this, the 'kids' have countless opportunities to get away, but would rather make life more difficult by choosing not to.I promise, you'll scream at how pathetic these people are. I could only make it 50 minutes in and I had to skip to the end. I wasn't going to waste a further 40 minutes of my life on it. But let me just say, the conclusion was utterly stupid.What a stinker this movie is. Unlikeable and unmemorable characters.Bad acting, particularly by the timid guy and the bus driver. Truly awful. A very stupid plot.All in all I couldn't care what happened to these idiots, or the man with the gun. Boring beyond belief.I understand there's torture porn in this film. Do you know something, who cares!? Not me. Awful film. Just 1 out of 10.

I liked it. It's evidently a small budget project and within those limits they did a great job. It's entertaining, fast-paced, decently acted, and - most important for this kind of movie - fairly scary. The twist in the end, which is not really a twist but the solution of what really was going on all the time, gives it a sinister and cynical extra, as does the lack of a happy ending.In essence it's your average bashing & torture-horror: a bunch of youngsters is being held captive and physically tormented by some psychopathic weirdo's who seem to act just for the kick of it. There are some desperate attempts to escape, but those all fail miserably, and one by one the young people are offed until the last victim has ran out of resources and has to face her doom. In this movie the originality lies in the context: the boys and girls are abducted in a shuttle bus and most of all the horrors take place in this cramped space, while the bus takes them to desolate industrial area's in the middle of the night, which adds a nice claustrophobic touch. Maybe the young guys are not the greatest actors, but they're okay, and the two (attractive) girls are doing a great job, as does the guy who plays the driver. The other older man played it all a bit too much over the top for my taste, but I cannot deny that he came out as a pretty convincing creep.My few reservations concerned the script, or at least the logic of it, since it seemed to contain some major pot-holes. How desolate can a suburban area in the vicinity of an airport be, there being no-one in sight while they drive on (in circles?) for hours and hours? And then strangely enough they encounter a big functioning supermarket. In the middle of no-mans land?! Mel is forced to buy some stuff in this supermarket. She uses sign-language for the deaf (that's part of her day-time job) to the surveillance camera, and she hands the girl at the counter a little note hidden in her change. Why so complicated? Why didn't she just voice her message to the girl, the abductor in the bus couldn't have overheard that!? Outside one of the boys tries to run away and is overrun by the bus. Why didn't he scream his head off, since he was on the parking lot of an evidently still open supermarket?! Was the counter-girl the only staff-member present? That's hardly credible, in such a big store in the middle of the night! Didn't anyone of the staff hear (or see) this bus driving like mad around the parking lot to chase the escaped boy? Then there's this innocent bystander that gets killed along the way - which must have left a body and a car-wreck. Didn't that attract any notice whatsoever? Then there were all these ID-cards that the abductor had lying about in his hiding-place, they indicated hundreds of girls having been abducted, and who knows how many murdered, in the exact same way as our friends. We heard the abductor say that he did this shuttle-bus job some 5 years. So shouldn't the police in all those years have figured out some pattern here? Like: all missing girls coming from the airport but never reaching home; a strange bus parking year after year late at night at the exit of the airport-terminal but not being connected to a legitimate taxi firm; and numerous dead bodies (the girls that were not pretty enough or had some sort of physical flaw) discarded all over the area. It seems highly improbable that all this can repeatedly have happened without ever drawing any attention.Anyway, in spite of these minor flaws this is a solid and exciting and surprisingly original movie, with a twist that reaches out into your everyday reality enough to leave you rather uncomfortable.I rank it 8 out of 10.