Review of Shattered

Shattered (II) (2022)
2/10
Pretty terrible... get it?
13 March 2022
This is a low-quality movie through and through. Only 5 minutes in does it become laughably bad. As soon as lead actress Lilly Krug begins speaking, it sounds off. I was immediately aware of the audio dubbing and it wouldn't surprise me at all if I found out it was voiced by a different actress.

To make it worse, the dialogue is terrible. A line early on reminded me of The Room with the way it was delivered. There are also a bunch of lines that feel off, as if a non-American was writing for American characters. For example, "I don't live far from here, you can come over to mine." I believe that's English slang, something no American would say. Most commonly it would be, "my place." Another example is, "I've got an admission to make," rather than "I have to admit something."

Now combine the bad audio dubbing and poorly written dialogue with a really bad performance by the lead actress and you have a recipe for disaster. I don't know how much of this is the actress's fault, anyone can give a bad performance if they're directed poorly with a bad script. One thing she does get right is the sex appeal aspect because she is unbelievably attractive.

Other than that, this is a generally terrible movie with tons to make fun of. Especially when characters make huge decisions late in the movie that come out of nowhere, to the point of laughter. There are continuity errors and other random little things. Like Sky wearing the same blouse in three different scenes, as if they were shot back to back but then inserted other scenes in between. Blouse to hot tub to the same blouse to the next day in a different outfit to the same blouse.

It's unfortunate because, if done right, this could have been a fun premise. (1 viewing, 3/13/2022)
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