Broken

I got this one last week from zip.ca, an online rental company my girlfriend and I signed up with. Overall pretty happy with their service so far. This one was sort of accidently put near the top of the list, but I wanted to see it. It looked a little bit like that movie Inside, and we all remember how badly that one fucked me up. Therefore I was pretty curious to see what this one had in store for me.

Turns out not fucking much. The first few minutes do offer some pretty intense gore and really looked like it would be setting the stage for what was to come. Well after that, nothing happens. Nothing happens for a really long fucking time. The premise is pretty familiar. A mother and daughter are kidnapped by some random psycho and the mother is put through these "tests", all the while wondering if her daughter is actually safe.

It's familar, but there is still some potential to make a pretty interesting movie here. Unfortunatly this one is not interesting. I've read that some people have said it was "tense", but I found it really dull. When an 80 minute movie feels like it's over 2 hours long, not a good sign.

There is one more moment of gore near the end, that brings back the old instincts that maybe things are about to get good. But they don't. The ending is actually a little surprising but feels tacked on for some shock elements.

Overall don't bother with this one. Only about 3 or 4 minutes out of the 80 are worth watching and the rest are painfully boring.

3/10