Shattered

1991

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

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IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 11350 11.4K

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Plot summary

Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who has supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...


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Greta Scacchi as Judith Merrick
Joanne Whalley as Jenny Scott
Tom Berenger as Dan Merrick
Corbin Bernsen as Jeb Scott
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Intriguing and surprising thriller with tension, twists and moving finale

A suspenseful movie about a horrible car accident in which a couple : Tom Berenguer, Greta Scacchi are seriously wounded. The husband : Tom Berenger is totally disfigured and is undergone a risked operation to remake his face. Once he's healed he suffers amnesia and doesn't remember his past, exception for brief visons of strange incidents from his previous existence. That's why he hires a Private Inspector : Bob Hoskins to find out causes of the car crash, resulting in a surprising conclusion.

Exciting thrller with suspense, intrigue, twists and turns. It is an Hitchockian thriller with several plot twists, red herrings and predictable final. We're extremely interested in the twisted events and the main question is to solve what really happened at the fateful day of the terrible accident and about a surprising killing. Main starring Tom Berenguer and Greta Scacchi give acceptable interpretations, furthermore they perform some strong and hot love scenes . They are well accompanied by a good support cast such as Joanna Whalley Kilmer, Corbin Bernsen, Theodore Bikel, Bob Hoskins, among others.

It displays an attractive and thrilling musical score by Alan Silvestri. As well as adequate and atmospheric cinematography by Laszlo Kovacs. The motion picture was well directed by Wolfgang Petersen. This good director from his first big success, : Das Boot has made several blockbusters and big hits such as The Neverending story, Enemy mine, Open Fire, Outbreak, Air Force One, Troy, though Poseidon was a real flop. Rating : 6.5/10 .The flick will appeal to Tom Berenguer fans.

Reviewed by seymourblack-1 8 / 10

Amnesia, Flashbacks & A Shocking Discovery

"Shattered" is an old-school psychological thriller in which an intricate puzzle is cleverly created concerning a man who's been seriously injured in a car crash. As the story progresses, numerous clues to the puzzle are provided but it's always unclear which ones are reliable and which are intentionally misleading. Similarly, the natures of the various characters who provide these clues are also uncertain.

Dan Merrick (Tom Berenger) and his wife Judith (Greta Scacchi) are driving home from a New Year's Eve party when their car suddenly leaves the road and plunges down a steep embankment. Judith is thrown clear and only incurs superficial injuries. Dan, on the other hand, is trapped in the wreckage and subsequently spends a considerable amount of time in a coma before undergoing extensive plastic surgery on his disfigured face.

As a consequence of the accident, Dan suffers from selective amnesia and flashbacks in which he sees shattered glass, huge waves and a gun. He's also unable to remember any information about his personal life and during his recuperation; Judith dedicates herself to his care and tries to help him by sharing recollections about their life together and showing him photographs.

Dan's a wealthy property developer and is surprised when his business partner Jeb Scott (Corbin Bernsen) mentions that before the accident, Dan and Judith's marriage was on the rocks. Jeb's wife Jenny (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) tells him that he and she were lovers and he also discovers photographs of Judith in bed with another man.

Dan finds a receipt for a payment he'd previously made to a pet shop and on visiting the premises discovers that the proprietor, Gus Klein (Bob Hoskins) is also a part-time private detective who he'd paid to follow Judith. Klein had discovered that she was having an affair with a man called Jack Stanton (Scott Getlin) and so when Dan hears that Judith has received a telephone call from Stanton, and decides to follow her, the events that follow ultimately lead to a shocking discovery.

"Shattered" is a stylish movie in which deception, murder and treachery feature strongly and numerous unexpected plot developments keep the action intriguing and tense. The fact that the audience discovers the clues at the same time as Dan creates a great deal of empathy for his predicament and a clear understanding of the confusion and frustration that he experiences.

This movie is graced by consistently solid performances but Tom Berenger and Bob Hoskins stand out. Berenger does well in conveying his character's confusion and helplessness and Hoskins is a powerful and entertaining presence in every scene in which he appears.

Reviewed by rmax304823 4 / 10

Shattered -- and twisted like a pretzel.

Yes, this will leave your mind in pieces. It's not just unbelievable. It's stupefying.

I want to get this plot as straight as I can without giving away too much or using up all the space. Tom Berenger is a wealthy real estate developer. Right away, I have a problem. What is a real estate developer? Evidently he buys up large tracts of land, chops them into smaller parcels, and sells them at a profit. That's what a butcher does. May we call a butcher a "pig developer"? Got derailed there for a moment. I believe whatever foul disease this movie carries is communicable.

Okay. So Berenger is a partner in a prospering business. He wakes up in a hospital in San Francisco with anterograde amnesia. He can't remember anything that happened before the accident that sent his car hurtling over a cliff and left him looking "like hamburger" while his wife checked herself out of the hospital after a few hours.

These amnesia stories can be kind of interesting, from "Somewhere in the Night" to "The Bourne Identity." And this one begins with some winning scenes. Berenger returns home to his wife, Greta Scacchi, and to his office, where he is greeted by his staff, including his partner, with the remark that he's lost a little weight.

In his home, he stumbles across some photos of his wife in the arms of another man -- a burlier guy with a rough-hewn face. He begins to suspect that his wife and her boyfriend deliberately tried to kill him for his money, and he hires private detective cum pet shop manager Bob Hoskins to look into things.

This is where I have to skip much of the plot because there is frankly too much of it. But to buy the story as it's presented here, you have to believe two things. One is that Berenger's character was one man before the accident, and an entirely different man -- different in looks, voice, and personality -- after the accident -- AND NOBODY NOTICED IT. Not his friends or his business associates nor anyone else who knew him.

The second is that Greta Scacchi could tumble out of the car while it's plunging one or two hundred feet down onto the rocks below -- and check herself out of the hospital after two and a half hours.

You don't simply need to suspend disbelief in order to find this sensible. You have to take that belief and mutilate it. You have to wrench off its head and pour foul fluids down its neck cavity.

Well, can I add one thing more, admittedly not in the same league as the two above? A car bangs through a cliff wall, shoots out into the air, and does a one-and-a-half gainer through about five hundred feet of living air -- the longest drop I can remember seeing on film -- and when it lands upside down on the beach below, it detonates gloriously as if it were a two-thousand pound bomb.

This is such a cliché that the director, Wolfgang Peterson, should hang his head in shame. Since "Das Boot" he's shown himself to be a nice guy and a commercial hack, devoid of any sense of the poetry he showed in his best-known film, but retaining all his taste for excitement.

Berenger is okay in this. He's easy to identify with, but his range as an actor is limited. The default setting for his facial muscles is "serious." He's almost always serious. Here, he stretches and reaches "nonplussed" and, in the most dramatic scenes, almost "discombobulated." Greta Scacchi is adorably flat, though not where it counts. Bob Hoskins delivers the best performance -- humorous at time, savvy always, and full of common sense.

But nobody, no matter their quantity of talent, can overcome that plot as its rendered here.

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