The Broken

2008 "Face your fear."
5.4| 1h33m| R| en
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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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Wordiezett So much average
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
robertemonaghan If you like slow burn horror movies you may like this more than I did. When I saw it was a English movie I kind thought it would go like this. Hate to be the standard American but not much happens and the dialogue is kind of odd.
evidentlykelly Basically, when the mirrors break, demons in the form of the five come out as doppelgängers. There must have been some sort of spontaneous seance when the five individuals were at Gina's father's house. Five is the same number as the sides of a pentacle and they were seated at a round table. I believe when Gina sees her boyfriend as a demon and she sees the others around her as demons its because her aura has been punctured and her soul fragmented, allowing entities to share her body with her own etheric body or mind body. She has a demon. She is not possessed, but she is being psychologically tormented by dreams. That's whats happening even before we get to the doppelgänger drama. She also keeps being haunted by this photo of her and her father that is scribbled out in his face area. Like he's not one of the good guys either. She finds it when she goes to see her car at the tow place. The glass isn't all smashed out of the front side of her car like she imagines. Her windshield isn't shattered. It symbolizes that she is still okay. She is still in control. Gina talks to her father about what she saw with the doppelgänger, and she says: "Why would she have a photo of you?" and he responds "Maybe its not me." Well, let's just see about that. These doppelgängers are here to kill their etheric bodies and take their bodies as vessels. This is when Gina learns that her etheric body had been killed before the crash and that she had always had this demon in her. to prove it her heart is on the wrong side now. the good gina is on the wrong side of the mirror now. the bad gina just had amnesia.
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.
patrickkemner Contains spoilers!I liked the movie, but I would have liked it better if it would have come out before the Body Snatcher.Because this movie is basically the body snatcher movie except that instead of an alien plant, it is extra-dimensional beings that replace people and they don't scream like in Body snatcher when they spot a human.The people who made the script definitively lacked creativity. They just took the older movie and put some new painting, and convinced people that this is a new movie, but it is not.It is not as scary as the older movie, and not as deep or thrilling either.The only part that is new is the extra-dimensional being had some amnesia and thought it was human. But that also comes from another movie, but meh! Too tired to write more about this other movie, so I'll leave it to that.It's a decent movie, but I would never spend a dime on it, since body snatcher already exists plus that other movie. They just did not create anything and that is unfortunate. But the film crew (director, actors, etc.) did a good job and saved this movie from being a complete disaster.