TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
FountainPen
I see there are a few very highly-rated responses to this film. I have to assume they are from cast or crew members. This is an abysmal attempt at making a horror movie, full of nonsense and unrealistic situations. It's not only the bus driver who is crazy and freaked-out ! 1/10
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Despite it's predicabilities, some amateurish bits, more patchy ones from an average script, (a lot of bad, write as you go dialogue, some you can't believe, honestly) Shuttle still manages to come out good, thanks to it's plot, and dark disturbing themes, closer to it's end. Two girlfriends, worn and wearied, from last get together, before one of ties the knot, just wants to get home, only making one dreaded mistake of taking a shuttle, driven by a party who have much more grave plans for our two hotties. Two guys, innocents, who also board the shuttle, just want to get in their pants, so we automatically know what ensues for them. There are a two thrilling moments, one impactful you might say, but really we the audience are more interested in the fate that awaits the girls. One scene may lose you where one girl is forced to dismount the shuttle and buy twenty dollars worth of items. Too, these girls don't listen when ordered not to get out of line. Of course, I knew all about the movie beforehand, and how it eventuated, but I thought there would of been much more to it. The last fifteen grueling minutes, are disturbingly scarring. They will stay in your mind, like a bad aftertaste, in a much grim ending, where I must say, one hasn't affected me like this, for many years. Like I said, the dodgy film can't hide quite a lot of amateurism, but the movie's one hell of a ride, you'll never forget, the final minutes is an all too real example of how slave traders operate, where the film becomes so real. The final scene, one that stays with you, is a killer one, that was imperative to have.
TdSmth5
Four kids coming back from a trip to Mexico are convinced by a driver to board his shuttle to get downtown. He offers them his service for half the price of the other shuttles. Already aboard is a nerdy businessman. The driver picks a dangerous route through some shady neighborhoods. Then they get a flat tire and the muscular kid who offers to help change the tire loses his fingers in the process. The driver who up till now seemed a jerk and endangered everybody on board for no good reason unmasks himself as a kidnapper. He takes the passengers' ATM cards and PIN numbers, their valuable luggage, and sends a girl to shop for some items. In the process there are a whole lot of threats ,pointing guns and knives at people. All this while he drives endlessly around dark LA neighborhoods. Right in the middle of the movie there is a great surprise twist that I didn't expect. It turns out this isn't about the money the passengers have on them. Nor is it about all of the passengers (2 guys and 2 girls make up the 4 kids), but just about the girls. Finally he takes the girls to a warehouse where a customer inspects them and picks one. And in the fantastic and unexpected ending we learn the fate of that girl. Low budget pychoterror tends to be lame. And Shuttle struggles mightily against it's low budget and a lack of story. What helps are the excellent performance of Tony Curran, who is a great villain, the twist, and the ending. Despite the miniscule script, the director does a great job and keeps us mildly engaged and our thumbs away from the FF button, but barely. Since the director is also the writer he only gets partial kudos. Perhaps he should have gotten another writer on board to help him expand the script a bit. As with all these movies, the characters act in ways that no rational human would, but the script requires them to. Not just the victims, after all this villain isn't that threatening, plus...he's busy driving; but also the villain makes pointless choices, why does he send the girl shopping, shouldn't he have all that already prepared? The movie looks a bit too dark, lacks excitement, and thrills, but succeeds at what it aims to do more than similar movies.
mdarmocida
The movie starts out pretty good and I have to say its well acted and will keep you fairly entertained for the first forty minutes or so. However half way through the victims start turning the tables, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times (maybe more, I wasn't really counting) and don't kill this guy or incapacitate him to the point where he is no longer a danger. Their refusal to do this is stunning considering he severed all the fingers in one guy's hands, ran over the other guy, almost suffocated one girl, and had the first guys throat slashed. Despite his ineptness, the villain couldn't fail because he had everything going for him (his victims were incredibly stupid, he had more lives than Michael Myers, and he had superhuman powers that allowed him to survive and heal whenever he got hurt along with the ability to magically show up in the right place at the right time throughout the entire movie). By the end of the movie I was cheering for the villain because the supposed hereon was so inept I figured she deserved to die. Thank God the movie ended the way it did, because it would have been very frustrating, and even more unbelievable, if she was able to pull off an escape in the 11th hour (when it was more impossible than ever) considering that she had multiple opportunities throughout the movie and refused to act. At least she stayed consistent and didn't finish the guy off in her final attempt. On the other hand, the villain was pretty inept also in that he allowed his victims to gain the upper hand so many times that it was making me dizzy. Heck, there's one scene that shows a drawer full of drivers licenses of all the women that this guy abducted over the past five years. How could this have been? After five years of experience these two girls got the upper hand so many times that I can't believe no one had overtaken this guy in his prior attempts. Basically, this movie was like watching a battle between dumb and dumber and wondering which one would come out on top.
