Fresh and Exciting

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely the worst movie.

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Humor in a film like this is not really a problem but encountering this many clichés was a bit of abomination. Here's a list: 1. A little boy discovers victim Tom in the garage, tells his mom, they want to call 911, but daddy says it's none of their business and they would have to face immigration services. An anonymous call, anyone? In the end Tom falls into their and all's well... 2. Neighbor with little dog finds blood, but he is an idiot and dismisses it as garbage. He says 'Bad dog!' and they walk home. 3. Brandi boyfriend's character: a dealing, cheating black guy who acts tough - but really isn't (though he had his moments). 4. Silly Brandi leaves her cellphone within reach of Tom, he (finally) gets it, calls 911 (does nót check info on the phone to find out where he is), but then - oh no! - the battery is dead. I know most clichés come from some basis of truth, but here it was just one thing after another.I do believe I should not be too harsh on 'Stuck' for those reasons, because Stuart Gordon also knows how to create an gloomy and claustrophobic atmosphere. And, a lot of humor díd come across, there where it is not too obvious or laboured. For instance, when Brandi's co-worker comes by and simply accepts the explanation of Brandi having hit a deer - and leaves. On the whole, I would have wanted more of that dark atmosphere, than being distracted by rather pointless humour. It also depends on what you're looking for, maybe.After 'King of the ants' and 'Edmond' this turned out to be least part of Gordon's (unofficial?) trilogy on small, human dramas turning into total nightmares.A small 7 out of 10, though I'm curious to try it again sometime (I should make a night of it and watch the whole trilogy, of course!).

Wading through Lovefilm this film stuck out as having an interesting premise although i'd never heard of it. It starts pretty slowly and I was beginning to give up hope but once the 'accident' occurs it really picks up. It's certainly a novel idea and different to most other films out there. It's hard to categorise the film - it has elements of thriller, horror, comedy and drama and as a result it does feel a little uneven at times. However it does at least hold your interest.Mena Savuri is excellent as the nurse who accidentally runs over a down an out, that is once you get used to her ridiculous hairstyle. There is adequate back up from the rest of the cast. Overall it's a decent watch but nothing particularly special. Worth one watch if your at a lose end.

I saw this DVD in the Library and I took it home just because I saw Suvari in the cover. I liked her in AB so I wanted to see her again. The fact that I read there about this being a "darkly humorous" thriller also helped. But I got more than I had bargained for--and I'm not even referring to that dandy bed scene of the beginning. For starters, there's nothing funny here, despite what the DVD cover says--and yet I couldn't help but LOL at some shocking scenes; like for ex. when Brandi hits Tom in the head with a rod or log, to make him stop honking the car. This is actually a sad, tragic, story; but mostly a psychological thriller, or a psychological study, about people put in unexpected, dramatic, even tragic, dilemmas and how they react to it.An overworked, X-gulping nurse and party girl hits with her car an OOW Project Manager and takes him home, stuck in her windshield. There she tries to get rid of him, with the help of her drug pusher boyfriend. That's the story. Great acting by Suvari, who carries the flick on her shoulders–-with much help from her firm, expressive, facial features--as Rea (as the PM) doesn't have much to do but to suffer all kind of ignominies, and put the sad eyes of a battered dog, while Hornsby acts, rather overacts, portraying every ugly stereotype about his people (I've always wondered why people do that--are you listening, De Niro?). The cinematography's decent, so the pacing & editing. But this is a action driven flick, so we'll stay mostly focused on the going ons, neglecting much of the rest. I don't even recall if there was some musical score, which I guess helps making my point.The central idea in the film is how a human being, any human being, can go from doing the most selfless, caring, acts to commit the most heinous crimes without fundamentally changing characters, remaining the same person, as long as he/she finds a justification for the deed. (a truth that could be applied also to good, nice Germans exterminating entire populations "for the good of the nation"). I'm sure that if Brandi had gotten away with her plan to burn the garage and get rid of both men she would have been next day at her job, providing her loving care to her patients, as she strongly felt that was her calling in life. So, there is no character change in her in the film. Until the moment when, pinned by her car, she tries to shoot dead Bardo she is still the devoted nurse of the beginning. That's her calling, how she sees herself and for that reason she clings to the idea of staying the course no matter what. She sees the accident as an irritant rather than as a tragedy, which threatens her apostolate and that's why she indignantly screams to Bardo "Why are you doing this to me?". The fact is, she sees herself as doing much good for others to tolerate to be interrupted, specially by as someone worthless as him. It isn't the money what interest her-she mentions it to Rashid only to get into his wavelength--but her promotion to greater responsibility in her Earthly mission, even if it means taking a heavier workload. (remember her joy when writing her expected assignment on a paper.) Good concept; good development. Not that Stuck is flawless. In fact I see two flaws in the plot, having to do both with the male characters. First, Bardo. He says he's a PM, but he doesn't have a clue. He has been two years out of work and he isn't even in the computer. Granted, such a thing may occur to all of us, but usually when you have just entered the system, or shortly after, not years later. At this point he should have been on first name basis with employees in the UO; he should have become an habitué from the day he found himself OOW. Yet, years later he's still a stranger. How he spent all that time anyway? Then, even knowing that he's bound to be evicted anytime, he hasn't done the necessary arrangements for when the occasion arrive. He doesn't even know that he could go to a shelter for the homeless, which shows he didn't do any pertinent research; he didn't even inquire where he could go for help. So can you blame anyone for laying off such an inept PM? No wonder people see him as useless. The second flaw relates to Rashid. I don't understand why Brandi is his girlfriend, as there's nothing bringing them together. She could always pay for her X fix with sex, she didn't need to be his lover, even less cling to him to the point of violently expelling his other mistress from his apart.. My guess is, he was made his lover just to get him aboard; it was probably thought that she couldn't extort him into lending her a hand and if he was only her dealer. So, this is a plot contrivance; but, as there was no serious effort made to better justify or base their "relationship"-on common things for ex.-the weakness of the forced subplot appears all too clear (see how Brandi reacts seeing him dead: she tries to burn the body to incriminate Bardo!).Finally, I'll take back 1/2 point to get back at Gordon for giving me a moment of total disgust. Gordon: we DON'T NEED that eye candy to get it; we could have gotten it just as well if you had suggested what Mr. Binckley did on the bed, not shown it all in its unblemished glory & beauty. 6.5/10.BTW: an anonymous call to police wouldn't have helped the illegals, as they would have been interviewed anyway the moment Brandi's house is declared a CS.

This movie was clearly based on the Texas incident involving an African American, Chante Jawan Mallard, and a homeless white man, Gregory Glen Biggs. The first half of the movie led you down that path. Final half was totally off target and failed to show the true horror of the real story. Leaves you with the false impression that there is justice in the end when in the real case there was none. Gregory Glen Biggs dies horribly, Chante Jawan Mallard gets a 50 year sentence and will be free in 2027 with good behavior. Hope she becomes a neighbor of the screen writers. I felt lied to from the ending created by the writers and fail to understand why the real story would not have been enough to base the entire movie on. Chance to exhibit real stupidity, selfishness and inhumanity goes by and we are no better off in the long run.