Shattered movie review & film summary (2022)
What ensues is a narrative that seesaws between exuberant nonsense and a type of half-assed sociopolitical consciousness, mixing resentment of amoral techno-fascist douchebros, fascination with their show-off homes, and a barely pervy obsession with model-actress-whatever sorts who may not, factually talking, be teetering on the sting of the age of authorized consent, however are nonetheless made up and costumed to evoke a barely pubescent anime waif, or Lolita. Krug and Monaghan, I am sorry to say, are horrible on this, although it is onerous accountable them totally and even partially, given the lumpiness of the script and the director’s seeming incapability of steering into the skid and producing a wonderful wreck of a film, the type audiences cheer lustily though they know it is dumb.
A variety of the problems come again to the query of whether or not you are watching the sort of movie that cares about plausible psychology or one that might not care much less. It handles the misery of Sky’s roommate extra sensitively than one would possibly count on, but it surely additionally has the hero getting his leg damaged with a tire iron throughout an tried automotive break-in after which provides us zero indication of how that surprising crime would possibly’ve affected the sufferer’s psyche (for the most half, he acts as if it was an inconvenience).
Quickly we understand we’ll by no means determine who Sky “actually is” as a result of there’s nothing in her head however greed and evil. Kudos, sort of, for taking yet another large step into uncooked, uncut sleaze by bringing in character actor Frank Grillo (the movie’s different memorable efficiency) to play a preening, wiseass, thug-mastermind kind. Grillo’s smirky supply, New York powerful man swagger, and retro-’50s pompadour learn as an invocation of Mickey Rourke, the crown prince of display debauchery within the late ’80s and early ’90s, and the star of Michael Cimino’s remake of the house invasion thriller “The Determined Hours,” which the ultimate third of the movie generally resembles (together with each variations of “Humorous Video games”).
