Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

SHATTERED GLASS is a below average thriller, slow moving and predictable with few likable characters and a thoroughly predictable ending. Yet I think you should see it. Because what it gives you is an almost laughably transparent look at how the media elite portray themselves as a sacred brotherhood tested by fire (like the gladiators in SPARTACUS) instead of the spoiled, privileged, ninnies they really are. This Glass guy makes up a few news stories, and when his bosses catch on they run him out of town on a rail. Fine, fair enough. But for heaven's sake, don't act like it doesn't happen all the time! All the big main stream media outlets lie, if not with outright facts then with a smug, self-serving prejudicial slant. They don't call it "fake news" for nothing!I vividly remember serving as a Marine sergeant during Operation Desert Storm, and reading an Op Ed piece from New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen stating that military people like me were "not smart, not rich, not directed enough for college." This hurt a lot, not least because I had just graduated from Columbia College, an Ivy League School! But who needs fact checking when you've got money and privilege? The lies in the editorials suggest there's a lot of truth shading in the articles too. Everyone who writes for classy outlets like the Times and the New Republic goes to the same kind of schools, eats the same kind of food, wears the same kind of clothes, and thinks the same kinds of thoughts. They're all heavily invested in the "myth" of impartial journalism, precisely because it empowers them to go on lying about who they are, where they come from, and how much contempt they have for ordinary Americans. So as you watch this movie, ask yourself what the agenda really is. Some dumb kid gets caught doing what everybody does, and the movie treats him like he's the second coming of Jeffrey Dahmer. Meanwhile, check out a classic baseball movie like EIGHT MEN OUT, about the guys who threw the World Series in 1919. It's the same concept -- professional ethics in peril -- but hey, those guys are just dumb jocks. And we all know blue collar losers aren't REALLY grown ups.

"Shattered Glass" is a very humane account of true events that unfolds in the life of Journalist Stephen Glass. This is also a story of man who uses his will and wimp to rise on the top of ladder by manipulation and deceit.Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass justifies the role completely. He is commendable in portraying dark side of Glass subtly.Rest of the cast has also done a good job. A really intelligent script with good cast, Shattering Glass is an intelligent movie with a really humane storyline.Watch this movie, if you like a good cleverly crafted thriller...

Now that they've been re-running this movie quite often lately, I finally settled down to watch it and learn about this true story for the very first time.Of course, as with all Hollywood "true" accounts, I am careful not to accept every little detail as fact. Nevertheless, the result is a very suspenseful, thrilling, drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and the way they combine the present, his heroic lecture to the students and their fawning professor, and the events leading to the writers downfall is intriguing.One might think that Glass would have succumbed to the admission of the truth much earlier, rather than continuing ad nauseum to layer one fib over another until they develop into all out lies, attempting to cover his tracks with fake websites and purely fictitious, cheesily made business cards. Really, it gets to the point where we feel sympathy for him and start believing he is truly in need of psychological therapy. Better to come clean as soon as possible than to drag your boss and friends into the muck of your deception.Excellent performances by Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard, make this a very fine and enjoyable film considering I knew nothing about the actual story or the events when they originally took place.

Shattered Glass is not one of the best movies, but is a great movie for the people that like read the magazine The New Republic. The history line goes up at the beginning, then stay there, in the investigation of the article "Hack Heaven" and I had the same question all over the movie "how fake was the article?". The best part is the end.It is a movie directed by Billy Ray where we can find good actors such as Hayden Christenses (Stephen Glass), Chloe Sevigny (Caitlin Avey), Steve Zahn (Adam Penenberg) and Peter Sarsgaard (Chuck).The movie is about the true history of Stephen Glass, a young writer from the magazine The New Republic that manipulates the system of writing on the magazines world. He wrote the article "Hackers Heaven" that was really fake and the magazine Forbes find out that was false and then they began investigating it. Almost all the movie is about that but with a great end.The acting is really good, in special Hayden Christenses made a pretty cool invitation of Stephen Glass, you can see it in the interview (included in the DVD) with the original Stephen Glass.