The best way to treat "Report 51" director Alessio Liguori's bus ride to terror entitled "Shortcut" is to avoid it like the plague. Nothing about this atmospheric yawner will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. The premise is seemed potentially interesting. A diverse busload of teens is terrorized on a slow-moving bus, but no impending sense of doom surfaces in this bland 80- minute non-entity, and none of the characters in jeopardy is remotely charismatic. Worse, the generic monster looks like something out of a half-baked Troma movie. Called the Nocturnal Wanderer, this ghoulish looking thing kills the bus driver as well as a psycho with a pistol who commandeers the bus. There is no comic relief and Daniele Cosci's screenplay keeps us in the dark as often as the monster. Don't waste your time, your money, or your fears on this lackluster tripe.
