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      The Broken

      R Released Jan 9, 2009 1 hr. 28 min. Horror Mystery & Thriller List
      51% 37 Reviews Tomatometer 25% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score Gina follows someone impersonating her and discovers her friends and family are involved. Read More Read Less
      The Broken

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      A British chiller lacking in strongly drawn characters, The Broken feels unfinished and undercooked.

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      Chester A mind-bending, atmospheric mystery/puzzler involving deja-vu and dopplegangers, with a lot of loud jumpscares, broken mirrors and ringing telephones. Left me with more questions than answers. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/03/23 Full Review dara b This film is incredibly creepy and dark. I cannot understand why this is rated so low. Rotten Tomatoes ratings are really worthless. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The Broken was built on the suspense that the main character had seen herself in a wreck. The wreck scene comes back over and over - and others around her are also experiencing their dopplegangers. But, there's not enough dialogue or tension built between shattered mirrors to make this movie work. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Outstanding film starts out with a bit of a mystery that steadily gets creepier. Intelligent story and outstanding direction Reminds me a lot of M Night Shamalyn. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Is a movie necessarily ‘bad' if you weren't sure you'd seen it before until ten minutes in and you can't really remember anything about it? ‘How do you know you finished it?' you ask - simple, I finish 99% of movies I start and I've probably finished 99.999% of movies I've watched over the last decade. I'm at a point now where if, I have not seen a movie before, I don't even start it unless I know I'm going to finish it. So I'm sure that I saw this before, and recently, within the last year or two... I just don't remember any of it until I see it again. There's a reason I remembered nothing from this til seeing it - NO SENSE. There is something very wrong with this movie, it is strange and does not make much sense at all. It alludes to some greater, bigger picture but never really even gets close to getting there. It looked like it had a plan with some rhyme and reason for it's existence but it just didn't follow through. Loose ends everywhere, probably missing about 45 minutes that were cut out. Still managed to be kinda creepy though. 1 1/2 of 5 Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member It was gripping but the ending not really well explained. I think clones took over? Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Anton Bitel Little White Lies The Brøken may offer a somewhat derivative resolution, but it gets there via an aptly fractured narrative, intertwining two radically different kinds of story type to disorienting effect. Dec 1, 2010 Full Review Kim Newman Empire Magazine Writer-director Sean Ellis is influenced by M. Night Shyamalan, and manages an approximation of both Shyamalan's habitual look and whispery melodramatics. Rated: 3/5 Jan 30, 2009 Full Review James Christopher Times (UK) The tedium is almost as annoying as the sound effects. Rated: 1/5 Jan 30, 2009 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews An ambitious yet not-entirely-successful endeavor... Rated: 2.5/4 May 21, 2017 Full Review Jason Best Movie Talk Ellis unblushingly borrows from older movies, from the famous (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) to the little known (Roger Moore chiller The Man Who Haunted Himself), but he does conjure up a spine-chilling frisson all his own when anyone passes a mirror. Sep 7, 2013 Full Review R.L. Shaffer IGN DVD While the film might not work for fans of today's faster-paced horror/thrillers, The Broken is a creepy little pot boiler that's likely to get under the skin of many horror fans. Rated: 7/10 Jan 16, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Gina follows someone impersonating her and discovers her friends and family are involved.
      Director
      Sean Ellis
      Executive Producer
      Franck Chorot
      Screenwriter
      Sean Ellis
      Distributor
      After Dark Films
      Production Co
      Ugly Duckling Films, Gaumont, Gaumont International, Left Turn Films, Thriller
      Rating
      R (Language|Brief Sexuality|Brief Nudity|Some Violence)
      Genre
      Horror, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 9, 2009, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 1, 2009