One of my all time favorites.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I wonder if Sean Ellis knew exactly what he wanted, the movie is very confusing and ends like that, unexplained what I just saw, who are the duplicates of the characters, are there really duplicates or everything is in the imagination of some of the characters, everything is unclear and chaotic.

Here we have a standard film of the modern era. This movie is like ordering a pizza for delivery and when it arrives finding no piazza in the box. This is just a celebration of suspense for it's own sake. It goes out of it's way to be vague and reveal as little as possible. After watching you will know roughly the same as someone who had never heard of the movie. This is just cinematic junk food, It's only 88 or so minutes but I'd like them back, I could have been doing something much more productive like reading a book in Chinese, no I don't speak it.

A film with an interesting premise that never quite materializes, "Broken" presents a good cast of actors who are not allowed to realize their full talents. The opening quotation from Edgar Allen Poe remains an unfulfilled mystery. The shattered mirrors in various locations don't make sense. The heavy music designed to heighten our worry is overdone. Better to have left it away. There are elements of Hitchcock but they never come together to form a coherent story. Instead, we are led down various paths as the young woman protagonist tries to sort things out after being injured in an auto crash. And we are none the wiser for her attempts. The worst thing about the film as that it is boring and drags in places. The relationships between the different characters in the film are tenuous and often inexplicable. We are left to make assumptions about who they are and how they relate to one another. A waste of fine talent. In the end we are left holding the bag (of popcorn?) without a denouement that would help us understand what the author/director was driving at. In summary,"Broken" leaves us wondering what exactly the young woman experienced and whether she was able to overcome her apparent mental difficulties.At one point she undergoes a series of brain scans and when her doctors say these are inconclusive and she would need to submit to more tests, she refuses and leaves the hospital. So what? It's easy to assume that she's intimidated by a bunch of men in white smocks looking at scans of her brain, but there's got to be more to it. We cannot see the conclusions she draws from her experience. Instead, we are led on a wild goose chase. This is another film about women as victims. Very disappointing.

This film reminded me a lot of a 2009 film called Triangle. That also had a series of...memory blanks and...encounters with familiar people.But that film was linear. The magic was in seeing the mystery evolve before your eyes. Instead of revealing this 'altered reality' in a straight and follow-able fashion, this film goes for the toilet bowl. It just drops you in and spins and spins and never lets you get rooted in a character...a narrative...a place...anything.All you can do with The Broken is sit back and watch repeated flashback after repeated flashback until they finally just say "IT'S THIS," and you yawn back, "Okay." This aims for substance, but it's style kills the story. They build the mystery, but annoy you with it enough that the revelation just isn't worth something you'd never want to watch again.And I mention Triangle, because there are a good amount of similarities, but that's a film you want to watch 50 times. This is a film you might try to watch twice, because you just couldn't pay attention the first time.There isn't a good reason why this shouldn't be in the same class of psychological thriller as Black Swan and Triangle, but if I had to watch that car crash one more ******* time.....