Shuttle Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES
Driven to Fear
A late night airport shuttle ride home descends into darkness.
| Tony Curran | Driver |
| Cullen Douglas | Andy |
| Tom Kemp | Serene Man |
| Dave Power | Matt |
| James Ryen | Young Doctor |
| Skip Shea | The Pilot |
| James Snyder | Seth |
| Roy Souza | Forklift Operator |
| Cameron Goodman | Jules |
| Peyton List | Mel |
| Edward Anderson |
5.80 out of 10 (150 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Tries to be different but ends up the same.
posted on 14 Aug 2009I found 'Shuttle' an incredibly frustrating film to watch. It starts quite well and moves along briskly until the first 'injury' (which is a doozy). After that it becomes very lazy and underwritten as a story. It was the case of the plot driving the characters and not the characters driving the plot. If you hate film where you can't understand why characters do what they do, you will loathe 'Shuttle'. Particularly, the last act is odd and seems to occur in a world without common sense. Also at the end one of the characters confessed a past misdemeanor to her friend, rather than generating sympathy from the audience, most people started to giggle. This was probably because the 'heroines' of the story was a complete idiots. Finally there is an ending which just seems tacked on to be 'shocking' and comes from the horror cop-out school of 'people are bad, audience, so just accept it without any explanation'.'Shuttle' is neither good or bad, but mediocre. And annoying.
Solid
posted on 15 Jul 2009Solid Hollywood good night thriller. Reminds me on Judgment Night, just this time there is a wrong bus instead of wrong turn. Consequences more severe in style of modern thriller of this decade. Good camera, predictable scenes, pretty solid plot composition, but no development of characters at all, regarding that part the movie is pretty shallow. Although good, plot composition leads you to pretty predictable climax as well. All in all, a solid chiller, kind a refreshment in dark thriller/horror style regarding Hollywood movies which are coming worst every year in most of the cases. Would recommend you if you are a fan of this movie genre. 5 out of 10.
I'm still laughing!
posted on 13 Jul 2009May 2nd: someone clicked 11 NOs, and then proceeded to do 15 more on my previous 15 comments: almost as funny as this turkey!May 1st: As I write this, I'm still very much under the impression of what must be the funniest thriller I've ever seen. I've got a major case of the giggles, but I'll try and calm down. (It's kind of hard to write when your nose spills snot and the mouth ejects sporadic drool onto the keyboard.) A pair of young women who just returned from a vacation take a ride on a shuttle bus. A couple of young guys join them. But the bus isn't really a taxi service: it's a kidnapping vehicle. (Don't snicker!) Its driver has been part of an organized "white slavery" gang who snatch young women from airports, and they've been doing it for FIVE years. (Don't laugh.) Five years on the SAME airport, without the police or even the FBI ever getting any wind of it. (No giggling, please.) Apparently, dozens of women go missing on in the same exact place for years and years - and yet no-one notices a trend. Is the FBI that incompetent? The world of "Shuttle" seems to consist of three types of people: easily kidnappable blonds, dumb/comatose/invisible FBI agents, and omnipotent psychotic gangsters (who hate sexy blonds with tattooed behinds).The driver has barely stayed alive on this one mission, and yet he's done this for - I repeat - FIVE years, without being killed or losing one of his limbs. (Stop laughing...) Did I mention that the driver is immortal? Need I mention it? We all know that movie psychos have immortal DNA. You can stab them, bounce them against the walls of a bus repeatedly, caress them softly with a hammer, prick nine-inch nails into their ears... Hell, you could stick a hand-grenade into the average Hollywood psycho's mouth, and he'd still escape with only minor scratches. No, the driver is not Satan or even a minor demon, but just a regular Hollywood psycho with better survival abilities than the biggest, meanest sewer cockroach.The basic plot outline: A guy loses all the fingers on one hand in a silly scene. (A magical bus that reads and obeys minds!) The passengers try to escape. They fail. They get hurt. They sulk. They argue. They try to escape. They fail. They get injured. They argue. They try to escape. They fail. They get injured. They try to escape. They fail. They try to escape. The kidnappees manage to snatch the gun from the driver! Alas, they do not kill him because the Golden Hollywood Rule Of Gandhi-like Pacifism prohibits them from doing it. (No giggling.) One of the other passengers turns out to be part of the gang! (Stop laughing.) He is played by an actor who studied in the Rob Zombie/John Travolta School Of Over-Acting & Silly Mugging. He threatens rape. Later on, one of the gals hits him with a crowbar over the head, about a dozen times... very hard. Only seconds later does he regain consciousness. Yep, he survives. (Immortal, remember?) He gets killed a little later. (No idea how, though! He is not supposed to be killable.) The kidnapees argue. They try to escape. One of them escapes! Alas, the psychos are just far too God-like in their powers not to re-capture their prey. The game starts all over again: the passengers try to escape. They fail. They sulk. They stare into the void. They get hurt. They try to escape. They fail. They get hurt...You get the picture.Frankly, I believe that a drugged, heavily disorientated, inebriated snail would have escaped these nincompoop captors with ease. There were so many opportunities. At one point these bumbling psychos (remember: FIVE years!) even send one of the kidnapees into a grocery store! She leaves a message to the police. However, yeah... you guessed it: this fictional fairy-tale U.S. city has no police.And just as you thought the movie couldn't get any dumber - not even if Luc Besson and Brian De Palma joined forces to lend a hand with the script - it does. The girls are kidnapped in order to be sent to some remote island(?), and this is achieved by transporting them as cargo. Apparently, this fictional America has no FBI, no police - and no border customs either. It does however have immortal criminals with more luck than twenty lottery winners. One blond had her billionth chance to kill the driver, and yet she failed. How is it that victims in these dumb thrillers NEVER try to finish off their immortal adversaries once they have them down on the floor and injured? I guess I answered that one myself: they're immortal! So why bother trying, she must have thought...So why was one blond gassed to death and the other one boxed and shipped alive (complete with a kitty-litter box, and the funniest photograph since Demi Moore's primary school pictures)? Could it be the tattoo? I think they killed the prettier one, but that's just me. Was her tattoo that ugly? Could it be that I don't care? Why should I search for logic in a movie made by imbeciles (for imbeciles)? Besides, how can I even think straight when I'm laughing so hard half the time?!Naturally, this being a 21st-century horror/thriller, the mobile phone doesn't work... Perhaps this invincible gang control not only the FBI, the police, and the customs, but satellites in space too.Do I have to spell it out? There are far easier ways to kidnap people. And far more intelligent people who should be making movies. Give an idiot a camera and he'll lay an egg every single time... That sort of answers the eternal riddle of which came first: the egg or the bird-brained director.
Wwyd?
posted on 07 Jul 2009-> "What would you do?" (WWYD) That's always one of the main questions with thrillers, that try to be as real as this one here. Well as you can tell by many reactions here, the main actors aren't really acting as you would want them too. But then again, wouldn't the movie be over much quicker? Of course for some here, that would be a good thing, but then again, you cannot please everybody. And this movie, with many plot holes, not the best acting in the world, but a few nice twists, can't really hold it's own. Which is almost down to the characters. While not completely unlikable, they're just not really people you can root for 100%. Which in many ways has something to do with their actions. The ending is pretty strong though, which almost makes up for the many faults ... but the main word here is "almost".
Good thriller about real problem !!
posted on 19 Jun 2009I don't get the people that put this movie down !! Maybe there are a few mistakes in the movie but it has an Important message ! Maybe you guys that don't like it don't think there is enough blood and gore and all that ?! i don't know and i think those types of movies are a bit over the top to be honest ! Don't you get the serious message they are trying to show ? I think this movie is very original but brutal and very gut wrenching ! The topic of this movie is about a very disturbing and real problem that goes on everywhere in the world : women and especially young women are being abducted and then sold in to sexual slavery ! I think what these girls in the movie and also in real life go through is horrendous!! How can people treat women this way ?? it is such an horrendous act. This movie is not meant to be a horror movie as such its more that they want us to look at a very real and disgusting truth. I think this movie is very good and quite well done, maybe a few mistakes here and there but i think they did not care about that and just wanted the message to get through loud and clear! The actors and actresses are very good and make it very realistic. See it and really watch the movie and try to think that you are in the same situation and think how terrifying it would be ! people need to wake up and realize this really happens.
Well done intelligent thriller. Awesome.
posted on 15 Jun 2009While there's not a lot of blood and gore for the low-brow slasher devotees, I admired the way the screws slowly tighten as the story unfolded, and the tension cranked up to relentless. Nothing cheap, fast or easy here. Especially loved how everything strange that happened during the course of the night ends up fitting together and explaining all the seemingly random events. This is a smart, compelling film that draws you in and doesn't let go.Best of all, the climax is original, brutal, gut wrenching and not at all expected.Highly recommend.
Very Predictable But Also Very Amusing
posted on 07 Jun 2009I liked this movie but I called every one of it's "twists" way in advance.It was a great idea on the villains' part to plant a fake on the bus but you can tell by the extreme cowardice of the so called hostage that he was exactly that, long before the empty headed heroes, who didn't catch on until he stuck a knife in one of their throat.It was shortly after that I turned to my mother and said with a nasty chuckle, "I bet he's taking them to a white slavery processing center!" I was right again. It was absolutely hilarious when the brunette begins putting two and two together and tells the slow members of the audience everything the smart ones figured out long ago.The most frustrating parts (of this and other films) were the ones where the heroines take control of the gun and refuses to use it to empty the creeps' skulls out onto the floor. When she finally does so, she doesn't make sure the SOB is properly dead and he proceeds to show her how determined he is to earn that money.I really like movies about white slavery. You can really feel good about them because there's no racism involved. HA!
Sooooooo bad!
posted on 03 Jun 2009OK this will contain spoilers. Now I have never seen such a large pile of poop since the laxative/feed mix up at the elephant enclosure in the zoo! It has more plot holes than moth eaten lace and as for the 'realistic' plot line. Well sexual slavery is a dreadful and very real world wide problem and this pile of bilge utilises this plague as a plot device to titillate and tease, shame on everyone involved for that piece of questionable judgement. But back to the film, if you were going to kidnap people from an airport, some of the most secure and camera happy places in the modern world by the way, then why plant a stoolie on the inside of the van who does bugger all until the plot needs a twist. Just wait until you are out of the airport, pull the gun, handcuff the passengers, drive calmly to the warehouse and kill the guys, job done. On the passengers side, on at least three occasions the good guys have the bad guys incapacitated and are armed, WASTE THEM! Once in a movie it can just be acceptable not to put a bullet in the bad guys skull, but COME ON three times! And after he's killed most of you. Also the guy is willing to put down the gun to stop a scarred cheek but kills a girl for a yeast infection that could be cleared up with $20 dollars worth of drugs. I could go on and on about the amount of holes in this but I won't waste any more of my time. Suffice to say that I have rarely been so insulted by such a dreadful piece of drivel and as for the real problem of sexual slavery, girls go voluntarily to new 'jobs' in distant lands and are abused, raped, and often killed by the gang master who meets them off the boat/plane and takes their passports and freedom. This s**t is an insult to anyone whose life has been affected by this! Do not waste your time!
Don't Fear The Reaper
posted on 06 Apr 2009On the whole, SHUTTLE is a perverse and mean-spirited motion picture, yet the powerful final moments of the film are truly sensational but diabolical none the less. The movie begins with two weary young women who have just ended their Mexican vacation, and need a ride back to town. They board the airport shuttle bus, and are taken hostage along with the other passengers. How will this divergent group free themselves from their psychotic abductor? The plot is straight-forward to the point of banality, yet here is where the story begins to lose plausibility. The fiendish driver takes them on a late night journey that seems endless and lasts most of the night. It really stretches credulity that no one would notice this out-of-control bus, and it would seem that they would have encountered more traffic if the airport had been located in the wilderness of Alaska. Their malevolent driver is menacing to the extreme, and a maximum of physical and psychological torture is dispatched. It is only in the final few minutes that the true motive for the kidnapping is revealed, and this electrifying final impression of abject loss makes the suspension of believe just about worth it.
save your money and your time
posted on 11 Mar 2009In order for a thriller to elicit fear, suspense or any emotion the story must be believable. There is nothing believable or realistic about this film. The protagonists have several opportunities to escape or turn the tables but manage to screw it up every time. The antagonists who supposedly plan this out and customized their shuttle specifically to trap people sure left a lot of improvisational weapons laying around. There is actually one scene where the "smart" girl has a gun to the head of the main bad guy and decides to scold him instead of pull the trigger. This was a thoroughly predictably, brainless "thriller". Every character was one dimensional. The "victims" were the usual gutless, brainless sheep that deserved to be slaughtered. Is there anyone on this planet capable of writing an intelligent thriller?
10 days and I keep going back over the message
posted on 19 Feb 2009I honestly sat down to watch Shuttle as more of a "time-killer" while I was waiting for one of my jobs to complete. I didn't expect a whole lot out of it and it is predictable in some parts. However, One of the previous posters stated that as the film progresses, "the screws slowly tighten" and that hit it on the head. For me, it was a little slow to start and the acting was "ok". Still, I continued watching and before I knew it, I couldn't walk away. The final twist really affected me as such that I'm still thinking about it 10 days later. I'd definitely recommend watching this film as it is very thought provoking, if for nothing else than awareness of an extremely obscure, yet serious issue.
.... oh my god ...
posted on 15 Feb 2009PERHAPS SPOILER !! well, i ve seen it at the film festival in cologne and i have to say it s ridiculous ... sorry author and writer and ...whatever but it is the worst try making a good movie i ve ever seen ... if u ve got 5000 times the possibility to get away from your enemy and u don't do it .... its getting boring ... there are szenes in the movie witch gives u the impression that they are forgotten e.g. a szene in front of a security cam, they are asking for help and a somebody sees it and calles the police ... than there is a cut and .... NOTHING ??!!! ... the killer gets a shot in his head and 50 secs later he is behaving like nothing happened ... no its no zombie movie ... and finally the final ... the BIG END which we were promised .... hmmmm, lets say take a little guy who always wanted to give the world one of the best endings in history so badly that everything goes wrong .... im not going to vote "1" because the actress is beautiful ... ;)
Average persons' view.
posted on 25 Nov 2008Im not a critic myself, I can't rate the acting and the actual way the whole film is made, but as my first review, i thought i just had to comment on this particular movie after watching it.First off its a genuine thriller, it does make you guess just 'what the heck' is going on here. although having a good story and flow doesn't always cut it for a good film.SPOILER: now this part is where i jump to just what bugged me the most, in nearly every thriller I've seen where the captors end up having a brief moment of becoming the captive, every every time the people that have finally wrestled control of a terrible situation, always seem to fail miserably at ending what is obviously going to be certain doom to them. example, if you were taken hostage, so far down the road you witness you captor mutilate one of the other hostages, after which you manage to finally get control of the situation, would you really (with all that pumped up, andrenaline rushing mind of yours) just turn the tables and keep them hostage, no, the first chance you got you would most likely end their existence before, the obvious happens, bieng you lose control again. i was just saying to myself 'just kill the guy already geez!' what kind of mentality would you have to have to develop some kind of stockholme syndrome within 2 or so hours, the film could of ended about 1hr in, and yet it doesn't. i don't care if your a Christian saint, if you were in that situation, you would of just shot the guy there and then without flinching. even then at the end .. again its cliché 'shoot the bad guy once .. ONCE! i mean common ffs i would of picked up each and every round for that revolver, and emptyed them all into the guys head, just to make sure he was never going to get back up, and yet .. fail fail and even more fail .. did i mention .. the female lead is uber fail?now apart from the stupid mistakes of the female leads to keep the movie flowing until its fanale, this would be an awesome movie, except it fails on the simple logic that every one in a movie based on hostage taking or where peoples live are at risk, as soon as you think 'woot they're done for now you've got control now just end it!! common just kill them already!' .. no instead its just fail.from my point of view the film is good, i liked the plot, even though it gets a bit obvious toward the last 1/3rd of the movie. the acting as far as i can tell is good, I'm not an actor myself or even have much knowledge on the subject, but i didn't think any of the films characters really slacked, i did feel gripped by the film, yet again i was pretty disappointed by the fact that the female characters just failed so badly when given the chance to end the crisis. they totally just.. well failed.7/10 its worth watching if you can get passed the usual movie stretching problems that seem to occur in nearly every thriller type movie.
Just awful
posted on 20 Oct 2008This movie was just terrible. No amount of good looking chicks could make this "film" watchable. The girls survive a completely unbelievable shuttle ride from a psycho driver and his brother/teammate and end up being sold into Chinese prostitution or wherever. I'm usually all for the bad guy winning in the end but this was just depressingly stupid and not worth it. The acting overall was bad, the story was convoluted at best, and it seemed that the ending was thrown together just to surprise the audience.Boo! Boo to Shuttle.
Two Thumbs Up
posted on 18 Oct 2008I expected this movie to be a boring slasher flick, but I was wrong. For once, a movie where I never saw what was coming next, much less how it ended. The worst thing about the movie was victims not inflicting hurt on their captors. A few things were predictable, but as a whole, this movie delivers on thrills and suspense. The empathy from the captor in the end was a nice touch. It's sad what people will do for money. The subject of the movie, which we don't discover until the very end, is something we don't much think about. This movie should make female watchers more aware of things and people when they travel. This movie proves that blondes do not necessarily have more fun.
Fascinating movie..
posted on 16 Sep 2008I watched 'Shuttle' yesterday night and I have to say it really scared me...What many people say about the movie is true: Some of the actions aren't credible. There is the female lead, finally pointing with a gun at the captor - and she doesn't shoot. Her best friend who wants to kill him, but doesn't intervene. That 'scared family guy' who refuses to defend - and no one realizes who he really is. I admit - the movie was in some parts predictable. Yet, I was absolutely fascinated. I wanted to know what was going to happen next and didn't expect some of the twists. But what I think makes this movie worth watching is not only the great acting (I really loved watching) but also the message. This movie only tells in the final scene what's been the reason for all this to happen; why five people had to die, but the women don't get hurt at all (except for the one being killed in the end, but even then he doesn't stab her...). I think slavery is an important issue to think about - most people aren't aware of what's going on. This makes the movie soo worth watching. Not a perfect movie, but MUCH better than many others...
I'll take the next one...
posted on 15 Aug 2008I hate guns and have never murdered anyone, but when even half of the events that take place in 'Shuttle' happen to you or close ones and you find a gun, YOU SHOOT YOUR ATTACKER. THREE TIMES. FIVE TIMES. Whatever makes the pulse stop on them and increase on you. I think even God would say, "Good call." In a very 'Hostel'-type film, but more realistic – as this really could happen to anyone, well, if you're a pretty young woman, that is – 'Shuttle' was a decent film, though on the long side. A few good shocks (always call AAA even just to change a tire), basically just one surprise but for the most part, you could see things coming. And aside from the typical "tie him up" instead of the previously mentioned shooting him, the most annoying part was the revelation towards the closing from one best friend to the other. Getting past those, it's enjoyable for what it is. Basically, we have two unsuspecting females traveling alone from Mexico home (wow, that's original) and one lost her luggage preventing them from leaving the airport until late. And after an obvious foreshadowed sign-language scene, they enter a "too-good-to-be-true" half-price shuttle ride. Clichéd jocks, previously introduced, con their way on the shuttle, to join what appears to be Alan Ruck's stunt double from 'Speed.' From here, it's obvious what happens (I did mention it was a 'Hostel' knock off) but still, I didn't find too much horrible, yet nothing spectacular. Though, it would've served the audience better with roughly 15-20 minutes deleted, I would recommend if you have almost 2 hours to kill and are into sick horror.
nasty and not entertaining
posted on 13 Aug 2008waste of 1h45 this nasty little film is one to avoid, its like a cheap badly plotted cross between saw and a few other recent films about kidnap, why the writer wrote this is obvious..he has no soul and did it to try and me some money. The twists were obvious, when those in peril could escape they did the obvious and didn't etc.. only good thing about it is I've discovered 1 new actress worth watching..peyton list, don't watch shuttle though, there are too many better nicer films to watch rather than this that will make you miserable and think less of the world. Spend your time more wisely watch good films, do some exercise, cook a nice meal..anything but waste your time on rubbish like this
One of the most brainless films I've ever seen
posted on 11 Aug 2008Brainless film about two girls and some guys they meet in an airport getting on the wrong late night shuttle bus and ending up in a whole world of trouble. Great twists and turns are totally, and I do mean totally wasted, in a film with a plot so incredibly stupid as to defy description. What is going on in a general sense is okay, I mean the idea of a guy kidnapping unattended girls for nefarious purposes is a good one. The problem is that the details are so beyond belief that I would be shocked if you don't turn off the film in utter disbelief. Gee, a guy who is suppose to be taking you home doesn't go any of the ways you know, and you stay on the bus? It get worse from there, think of every bad choice and this film has the characters make it, even to the point where they could just walk away, but never do. Whats annoying is that some of the twists and turns might have worked if there was something intelligent before it, but there is almost no intelligence anywhere in this film. Okay, maybe there is, the end, the end is clever. The end is the sort of thing that should freak you out. it should be the "oh #$*@!!!!" moment and become a classic of horror cinema. Instead it just lies there among the stupid ruins of a stupid movie. One of the most brainless films of the year.
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Despicable Film
posted on 16 Aug 2009Fortunately, this movie failed financially as well as critically. I'm not remotely close to being a feminist -- but NOBODY who likes women would admire this offensive, boring, film with a disgusting unsatisfying ending. It's a piece of crap!It lacks any satisfying result and the dialogue is plain silly throughout most of the story. Acting? Credits to all. The fault here, dear Brutus --is in the writing and directing. In the interest of creating something "new." they decided to create a silly way to make the characters utter ridiculous statements! So dumb and unsatisfying --shame on all of you. Still --the satisfying thing here is that it made NO money. Thank God!