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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 432598" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Shattered</span></strong> (1991)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcartelesmix.es%2Fimages%2FCartelesN%2Fnochecristalesrotos91004.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=bf6ce060a7edc7dec5da82623e29a4fefc8c3637b754bbc9491a7b0edbc7bdbe" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 601px" /></p><p></p><p>Watching for the first time some three and a half decades after original release, I'd say this holds up well. Some of the more "creative" moments - the occasional computer generated insert of an upper figure shattering into a thousand pieces - look a little dated, but I can still see how impressive they would have looked in 1991, and they get the point across. At times the creative filming style reminded me of a <em>Columbo</em> instalment, and it had the "grand design" homes to match.</p><p></p><p>Tom Berenger's name is very familiar, but looking at his filmography, I don't think I've actually seen any of his films (although the link for a 2020 film called <em>Blood And Money </em>was coloured in a way that suggested I'd read about it and so perhaps have watched it). He's great here. The cast is good all round, and it needs to be to sell what is actually a very soapy story, albeit told in a more unconventional way to that used by continuing drama. Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Corbin Bernsen are all suitably glamorous and show us wealthy people being nasty to one another and to the world in general. Completing the <em>Columbo</em>-esque element, into this world comes an eccentric and rough-round-the-edges detective-cum-pet-shop-owner. This time it's Bob Hoskins channelling Danny DeVito, and he's the best thing in this.</p><p></p><p>One note of pride and disappointment for me with this one. Very early on in the film, without even knowing that there <u><em>was</em></u> a big twist, I had worked out exactly what that twist was going to be. It's very unlike me to be so on top of these things, so I don't know whether it was really obvious or I just got lucky. The disappointment was because I like to be surprised and would always rather <u>not</u> see a twist coming. But I'm still pretty chuffed with myself for getting it so right. And I think it was a good one, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 432598, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Shattered[/SIZE][/B] (1991) [IMG width="601px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcartelesmix.es%2Fimages%2FCartelesN%2Fnochecristalesrotos91004.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=bf6ce060a7edc7dec5da82623e29a4fefc8c3637b754bbc9491a7b0edbc7bdbe[/IMG][/CENTER] Watching for the first time some three and a half decades after original release, I'd say this holds up well. Some of the more "creative" moments - the occasional computer generated insert of an upper figure shattering into a thousand pieces - look a little dated, but I can still see how impressive they would have looked in 1991, and they get the point across. At times the creative filming style reminded me of a [I]Columbo[/I] instalment, and it had the "grand design" homes to match. Tom Berenger's name is very familiar, but looking at his filmography, I don't think I've actually seen any of his films (although the link for a 2020 film called [I]Blood And Money [/I]was coloured in a way that suggested I'd read about it and so perhaps have watched it). He's great here. The cast is good all round, and it needs to be to sell what is actually a very soapy story, albeit told in a more unconventional way to that used by continuing drama. Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Corbin Bernsen are all suitably glamorous and show us wealthy people being nasty to one another and to the world in general. Completing the [I]Columbo[/I]-esque element, into this world comes an eccentric and rough-round-the-edges detective-cum-pet-shop-owner. This time it's Bob Hoskins channelling Danny DeVito, and he's the best thing in this. One note of pride and disappointment for me with this one. Very early on in the film, without even knowing that there [U][I]was[/I][/U] a big twist, I had worked out exactly what that twist was going to be. It's very unlike me to be so on top of these things, so I don't know whether it was really obvious or I just got lucky. The disappointment was because I like to be surprised and would always rather [U]not[/U] see a twist coming. But I'm still pretty chuffed with myself for getting it so right. And I think it was a good one, too. [/QUOTE]
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