Shattered movie pierce brosnan tv#

This has the potential for a good 3-person morality play, but director Mike Barker works overtime to pump up the artificial thrills. He does menace well and she's the loving wife. Pierce Brosnan and Maria Bello are a little better. Quiet anger would be so much more effective. His energy diffuses the tension rather than raise it. It's all intended to raise the tension, but it's too much of a movie thing. There is a lot of unnecessary breathlessness and yelling overacting. He tells them to do what they're told for 24 hours and they'll have their girl back. He starts telling them what to do like withdrawing all their cash but he throws it all into the river. On the drive to Diane, mysterious Tom Ryan (Pierce Brosnan) comes out of the backseat with a gun and news that Helen has already kidnapped their child.

They hire Helen Schriver from the agency to babysit Sophie for the night. Neil is going to spend the weekend with his boss. I just know that I'm frustrated as can be at what they did to two movies I had been eagerly anticipating for some time.ĭiscoveringme, I think they changed the title because so many Americans would not understand the reference to breaking a butterfly on a wheel, even though it's cited in the film.Abby (Maria Bello) and Neil Randall (Gerard Butler) seems to be the perfect couple in Chicago with a lovely daughter. I don't know whether the experiment is considered a success by Lionsgate or not. Their thought was that they would make more money on ad revenue and mechanical royalties (DVD sales) than in a theatrical release, because so many people are now saying 'I'll wait for the DVD' because movies have gotten so expensive. Oh well.thanks for the info!ĭiscoveringme, thanks for the welcome! It's good to be here. I wish it had got a cinema release, it's a great story and I think these types of films are still pretty popular. I would imagine that means it made a lot less money than it would if it had been a theatrical release. Interesting that they decided to send it straight to cable TV.

Shattered movie pierce brosnan tv#

I was *so* disappointed in the TV version that I wanted to cry. They did the same thing with 'Highlander: The Source' that they did with 'Shattered' - to wit, edited it poorly to send it to TV and then sent the unexpurgated version to DVD. Lionsgate films decided to experiment with sending some of their films to cable TV and directly to DVD to see how they did, as attendance in movie theatres is dwindling. It definitely had a couple of twists that I didn't see coming. But after watching it again and now seeing it on DVD, I think the movie is actually a pretty good thriller. For myself, I had mixed feelings about it the first time thru. Here's a link to that threadĪs you can see when you read thru the thread, the opinions about the movie ran from one end of the spectrum to the other. We had a great discussion when the movie first aired on TNT.

It's original name was much more intriguing and frankly, more true to the nature of the movie. Shattered was just a bland, boring name in my opinion. I think it's a terrible shame as well that the name of the movie was changed. But for reasons that are still a mystery as far as I know, it was put on TV and then has since been released to DVD. My understanding was this movie was intended to be a theatrical release.

I wish we all knew the answers to your questions.