The Broken

2008 "Face your fear."
5.4| 1h33m| R| en| More Info
Released: 15 November 2008 Released
Producted By: Gaumont
Country: United Kingdom
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The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.

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rodrig58 I wonder if Sean Ellis knew exactly what he wanted, the movie is very confusing and ends like that, unexplained what I just saw, who are the duplicates of the characters, are there really duplicates or everything is in the imagination of some of the characters, everything is unclear and chaotic.
ritzidean The movie begins with a family dinner. I am supposed to believe that the father, would tell a supposed "true story" about lube to his adult daughters. Not in my family, not in any family I know of. I was sad for the acting crew, that clearly desperately needed a payday to appear in this movie.
kingsgo4th I love a suspense thriller that doesn't run much beyond 90 minutes unless it encompasses a large ensemble of characters and it's plot contains complexities and needs time to settle each one. I was in a positive frame of mind as I watched the first 30 minutes.The central character, a young attractive radiologist is asked by a co-worker if she forgot something...he just saw her leave the building, and she knows that's not true. Outside, she sees an image of herself driving. Later she is involved in a head-on car accident. As she recovers in the hospital and we see repeated images of the crash, not once does she ask about the other driver/passengers. What an amazing lack of concern considering it was her fault for staring in her rear-view mirror. As mirrors break in several locations including her father's office restroom, her apartment, her boyfriend's apartment, a friend's apartment, and initially, her dad's apartment!!!! The clock is ticking on this 90 minute film. As we are two thirds of the way through, I pause it and think, 'they'd better come up with some revelation or explanation soon, because this'll be over in less than a half-hour.' My concern proved regrettably true. Yes, as we are beaten over the head with the exact double-taking-us-over plot, it ends abruptly and miserably. The classy camera-work, a petite and attractive heroine to care about and some fine co-stars and suspense were the positive ingredients that resulted in this bagful of broken mirrors. If there was a book, I will not read it because the issue is the film.
AMar_rom A scary experience and a very unsettling film. I am quite surprised of the low rating of this movie here in the IMDb database (5.5 as of June 2012). The life of radiologist Gina McVey changes forever the night she organizes a surprise birthday party for her father. The changes are very subtle at first but there is this weird feeling that something is wrong. Gina begins to have suspicions of the behavior of some of the people close to her and makes the connection that the problem may be due to a concussion she suffered in a car accident.The reality however is more grim and we are taken by surprise from what Gina discovers in her search to clear things out. Mirrors are important in this film.The movie can be considered to belong to the horror genre although there is no gore and the violence is only suggested, not shown explicitly. Quite an experience and I would especially recommend it if you enjoyed the old British Hammer series. My rating: 8/10.