Very best movie i ever watch

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

I really like this movie a lot. For a few years, it looked like Greta Scacchi was really going to become a major sex symbol. I wonder what happened.I do have one big complaint -- not about the movie itself but about the IMDb page. As of today, if you look under quotes, the very first quote completely gives away the secret of the movie. I hope something can be done about that. I'm not really giving a spoiler, just pointing one out that's already there.Tom Berenger and Bob Hoskins are excellent. Corbin Bernsen is OK in a Corbin Bernsen sort of way. Good story, great twist. I'd recommend it to anymore, but please, get rid of that spoiler.

The acclaimed director of 'Das Boot' shows off his Hollywood Hack credentials with this empty-headed, bargain-basement Hitchcock plagiarism. Tom Berenger stars as a car crash survivor, with no memory of his life beforehand (a moot point, since the script never bothers to give him one), who begins to suspect his beautiful wife may have tried to kill him. He hires pet store owner/private detective Bob Hoskins to find the truth, which when finally revealed is so far-fetched and so illogical it may strain the credulity of even the most undemanding viewer. Northern California audiences may enjoy watching Peterson play fast and loose with his San Francisco Bay area locations, moving a shipwrecked tanker from under the Marin County headlands in one scene to the opposite side of the Golden Gate in another, and rearranging city streets to suit his camera set-ups. Nitpicky details, to be sure, but if a filmmaker can't be troubled by the little things he's not likely to bother with larger issues of plot or character credibility either, and as a result there isn't a single moment here that doesn't ring false.

There was a time when a single hook or twist would justify the creation of a movie - that time was called the 1980s and early 90s.Aaaahhhh, the 80s, when action movies knew they were pointless, TV was a minor distraction and Tom Berenger was one of the most reliable guys going around.Shattered starts off with a car flying off a cliff, the occupants of the wreck are taken to hospital, where the wife is told that her husband's status is touch and go, and when I say touch and go she is basically told in very blunt terms that he is going to die, (some bedside manner doc!) Anyway of course the hubby lives, although he is messed up and needs extensive surgery to reconstruct his facial features - obviously no airbags in the car. Tom is the hubby Dan, and Greta Scacchi plays his wife Judith who is with him through every step of his rehab.One of those steps is to be in one of the cheesiest sex scenes in film history, replete with actual footage of waves crashing in between their lurve.So Dan gets out of hospital, a bit proppy and with a case of amnesia, and finds out that the bastard is rich, with a big ass house and a partnership in a large and successful company.Over the coming weeks Dan's interactions with his wife and close friends (and business partners) Jeb, (Corbin Bernsen) and his wife Jenny bring different versions and viewpoints regarding many aspects of Dan's life up to and including the night of the accident. These include the allegations that Judith was having an affair with a guy named Jack Stanton, and that she and Dan were headed for divorce.So Dan goes through Judith's diary to find out what's going on and is lead to a local pet store, where Bob Hoskins runs the show as a part-time private investigator.The ensuing investigations lead Dan to believe that someone tried to kill him for his cash, and the remainder of the movie takes him through all the twists, turns and revelations necessary in an 80s thriller.I can't explain much more without giving stuff away, suffice to say you'll never see the end coming… unless you do.Dan has itty-bitty partial flashbacks that are sometimes random and sometimes triggered by what he sees and hears. Shattered is a bit overblown, think Basic Instinct style where everyone takes everything way too seriously and everyone is beautiful except for sidekicks and quirky characters where it is necessary that they be ugly. It's almost hyper-real at times.One point though, twenty odd years ago Greta Schacci had a rig that is almost not believable, notice I didn't say unbelievable, although it is that too.Final Rating 6 / 10. It's OK I guess, but this is a paint by numbers thriller without any notable scenes.If you liked this (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com

The feel of this film rings of a late 1970's early 1980's action-drama TV show, like "Hart to Hart", "Charlie's Angels", or even "Dallas", particularly because of the location shots and the music. The scenes alternate between million-dollar mansions, ritzy hotels, billion-dollar corporations, and rural locales. And the lush strings always emerge when the characters are driving through some mountainous areas. I kept thinking that Jaclyn Smith would turn up at any moment. The opening premise is quite a stretch: Tom Berenger as Dan Merrick survives after having plunged about 6000 feet off the road in his car. It's a miracle that his legs didn't end up in the glove compartment. Despite being more or less still intact, Merrick's face has been crushed into hamburger, and he can't remember who he is or what happened to him after he awakens from a coma. His wife Judith (Greta Scacchi) is only a little scratched up after the ordeal. She nurses him back to health and tries to help put the puzzle pieces back into his "shattered" memory.He finds out he's a rich commercial real estate developer with a house with its own zip code. His office at the TransAmerica building in San Francisco is bigger than the average person's apartment. And he has a beautiful secretary who must have just finished a stint as a cover model for Vogue. And his colleague is the kind of guy who uses the old "two shooter" gesture while saying "We'll do lunch." That would be a nightmare!But other pieces do not come together so easily, like why, before the accident, did he hire a private investigator (Bob Hoskins) who fronts as a pet store owner? And why did this guy's invoice end up at the development company? At one point, he thought he had bought $7000 worth of pets! (With that kind of money he could have gotten the equivalent of Magnum PI.)The film becomes a kind of noir mystery in which Merrick tries to put the pieces of his life back into perspective all the while trying to figure who he can trust. Although some of the writing and circumstances were a little hard to swallow, the movie sort of gets better as it goes along. And a great performance by Berenger holds the story together more or less. At every moment, despite its short-comings, you want to find out what happens next. And a dynamite ending that is worth the wait and the price of admission, $5 for the DVD at Fry's.