The movie starts out pretty good and I have to say its well acted and will keep you fairly entertained for the first forty minutes or so. However half way through the victims start turning the tables, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times (maybe more, I wasn't really counting) and don't kill this guy or incapacitate him to the point where he is no longer a danger. Their refusal to do this is stunning considering he severed all the fingers in one guy's hands, ran over the other guy, almost suffocated one girl, and had the first guys throat slashed. Despite his ineptness, the villain couldn't fail because he had everything going for him (his victims were incredibly stupid, he had more lives than Michael Myers, and he had superhuman powers that allowed him to survive and heal whenever he got hurt along with the ability to magically show up in the right place at the right time throughout the entire movie). By the end of the movie I was cheering for the villain because the supposed hereon was so inept I figured she deserved to die. Thank God the movie ended the way it did, because it would have been very frustrating, and even more unbelievable, if she was able to pull off an escape in the 11th hour (when it was more impossible than ever) considering that she had multiple opportunities throughout the movie and refused to act. At least she stayed consistent and didn't finish the guy off in her final attempt. On the other hand, the villain was pretty inept also in that he allowed his victims to gain the upper hand so many times that it was making me dizzy. Heck, there's one scene that shows a drawer full of drivers licenses of all the women that this guy abducted over the past five years. How could this have been? After five years of experience these two girls got the upper hand so many times that I can't believe no one had overtaken this guy in his prior attempts. Basically, this movie was like watching a battle between dumb and dumber and wondering which one would come out on top.

Gruesome, grisly, vile and reprehensible. And talk about a horrific road trip. Two attractive young women, Mel(Peyton List)and Jules(Cameron Goodman), returning from a weekend getaway find themselves stranded at the airport in a downpour. Two wannabe studs(James Snyder and Dave Power)are in the same situation. The four are offered a cheap ride home by a Metro van driver(Tony Curran). Already on board is a pantywaist businessman(Cullen Douglas). The driver soon becomes gruff, bullying and down right brutal. This dark ride becomes a kidnap situation full of terror, mutilation and...death. Beware of a gut-twisting and darker than dark conclusion.

Don't pick this one. ****Spoiler Alert***** The plot of this aggravatingly bad movie is four friends are talked into taking the shuttle from the airport by a very zealous driver. On the shuttle with them is a rather milquetoast looking business type.

Shortly into their trip the driver of the shuttle takes an off-ramp and some lunatic driver tries to run them off the road. The end result is they get a flat tire. The driver gets one of the people on the shuttle to help change the tire and the jack slips and the guys fingers are crushed between the tire and the shuttle. It's at this point that the driver reveals himself to be a kidnapper and he has taken all the people hostage.

Now the movie gets extremely slow and tedious, as the characters do one lame thing after another. One of the men is killed trying to escape -- even that lacks any suspense. Finally it is revealed that the milquetoast business guy is in cahoots with the driver when milquetoast guy kills the other male friend by slitting his throat.

There are a couple of attempts to escape by the women. Milquetoast is beaten over the head with a tire iron -- yet he survives.

The driver is also beaten and somehow survived a head on collision with a fence at high speed while kneeling next to the steering wheel. Somehow he didn't go through the window or even get seriously injured with a collision with windshield. Yet the woman driving the shuttle is knocked unconscious -- yet she had a steering wheel to protect her and he had nothing between him and the windshield.

He is eventually able to subdue the women and get them to an underground garage that is a front for human trafficking. One of the women is killed. The other one stabs the driver in the leg with a good sized piece of broken mirror and shoots/grazes him in the head, yet he is able (in what should be a severely weakened state -- severe blood loss, two head injuries and a large leg gash) to drag her out of the shuttle, drag her to a large crate, throw her in and get it locked, all the while with her fiercely fighting him.

Now some people admire the message of the movie about human trafficking and how it is going on today. This is a serious problem. But, making an extremely boring movie about the topic does not entitle it to a higher rating.

While there's not a lot of blood and gore for the low-brow slasher devotees, I admired the way the screws slowly tighten as the story unfolded, and the tension cranked up to relentless. Nothing cheap, fast or easy here. Especially loved how everything strange that happened during the course of the night ends up fitting together and explaining all the seemingly random events. This is a smart, compelling film that draws you in and doesn't let go.

Best of all, the climax is original, brutal, gut wrenching and not at all expected.

Highly recommend.

On the surface, 'Shuttle' looks like it's going to be one of those slightly laughable high-concept movies like 'P2' - kids get on the wrong airport shuttle bus and all hell breaks loose. You'd be forgiven for expecting little more than incompetently handled third-rate genre clichés. This is one of those rare instances when you'd be wrong. Defying all the odds, writer/director Edward Anderson manages to craft a tightly structured thriller with a genuine sense of mounting dread and performances well above the norm for straight-to-DVD fodder. He's able to create some sequences of real tension and displays more talent and understanding of the mechanics of suspense than many more experienced directors. I, for one, found the story involving, the protagonists likable, and enough unexpected reveals to keep me guessing 'till the very end as to the true nature of the crime being perpetrated. All in all, 'Shuttle' is a solid horror-thriller that chooses suspense over violence, and does so admirably well for such an inexperienced director. I've no idea what Anderson's been doing in the three years since making this movie, but I hope his evident talents won't go ignored much longer.

This is a pretty unknown thriller that was actually good. The writer/director managed some tense sequences and the actors are above the usual C-grade for a small movie and they managed sympathetic performances that led me to care about their welfare. The story isn't above flaws but the characters, who've been kidnapped and are being transported to an unknown location via shuttle bus, are proactive and not daft, and so I contentedly went along with it. In fact, there was a surprising twist that I quite enjoyed too.

Oh hello, I guess this movie wasn't that small if Roger Ebert reviewed it. Now that I've checked out his one-star review, I remember glancing at it sometime back and deciding not to watch this movie. Good thing I'd forgotten about that; this is one of the rarer instances where we disagree.

OK, you could say this movie has flaws. I agree with some of the critique, but only in the sense that if it were me in that situation, I would have killed the driver the first chance I got. Survival is a fight and to win, you must do things you normally would never do.

I wanted this movie to end well, but once it was over, I see this was not the point. The point was to illustrate what hundreds if not thousands of women face, either real or the threat. As less likely it is to occur in the US as some other countries, this kind of thing happens and it is allowed to happen, because humans are greedy and many men in power are sick twisted souls.

I like this movie for making me aware, in a darker more definitive way than Liam Neeson's save the unrealistic day in Taken (great action, but would it happen, no). Keep in mind that when a woman is abducted into sexual slavery, she will probably not have a happy ending.

As far as the holes in the film, hey I'm not a critic. The acting was excellent, realistic, gritty. It kept me wanting more, to see what would happen next. It got my heart beating and me begging to see the women survive and kill the driver. This is much more than I could ever hope for in a film.

On the whole, SHUTTLE is a perverse and mean-spirited motion picture, yet the powerful final moments of the film are truly sensational but diabolical none the less. The movie begins with two weary young women who have just ended their Mexican vacation, and need a ride back to town. They board the airport shuttle bus, and are taken hostage along with the other passengers. How will this divergent group free themselves from their psychotic abductor? The plot is straight-forward to the point of banality, yet here is where the story begins to lose plausibility. The fiendish driver takes them on a late night journey that seems endless and lasts most of the night. It really stretches credulity that no one would notice this out-of-control bus, and it would seem that they would have encountered more traffic if the airport had been located in the wilderness of Alaska. Their malevolent driver is menacing to the extreme, and a maximum of physical and psychological torture is dispatched. It is only in the final few minutes that the true motive for the kidnapping is revealed, and this electrifying final impression of abject loss makes the suspension of believe just about worth it.

In order for a thriller to elicit fear, suspense or any emotion the story must be believable. There is nothing believable or realistic about this film. The protagonists have several opportunities to escape or turn the tables but manage to screw it up every time. The antagonists who supposedly plan this out and customized their shuttle specifically to trap people sure left a lot of improvisational weapons laying around. There is actually one scene where the "smart" girl has a gun to the head of the main bad guy and decides to scold him instead of pull the trigger. This was a thoroughly predictably, brainless "thriller". Every character was one dimensional. The "victims" were the usual gutless, brainless sheep that deserved to be slaughtered. Is there anyone on this planet capable of writing an intelligent thriller?

I honestly sat down to watch Shuttle as more of a "time-killer" while I was waiting for one of my jobs to complete. I didn't expect a whole lot out of it and it is predictable in some parts. However, One of the previous posters stated that as the film progresses, "the screws slowly tighten" and that hit it on the head. For me, it was a little slow to start and the acting was "ok". Still, I continued watching and before I knew it, I couldn't walk away. The final twist really affected me as such that I'm still thinking about it 10 days later. I'd definitely recommend watching this film as it is very thought provoking, if for nothing else than awareness of an extremely obscure, yet serious issue.

I expected this movie to be a boring slasher flick, but I was wrong. For once, a movie where I never saw what was coming next, much less how it ended. The worst thing about the movie was victims not inflicting hurt on their captors. A few things were predictable, but as a whole, this movie delivers on thrills and suspense. The empathy from the captor in the end was a nice touch. It's sad what people will do for money. The subject of the movie, which we don't discover until the very end, is something we don't much think about. This movie should make female watchers more aware of things and people when they travel. This movie proves that blondes do not necessarily have more fun.

What can you say about the film where the general idea behind it is good... but the construction is so appalling? Watching the last few minutes offered some semblance of satisfaction... but recalling almost everything that led up to this point... such as: twists you can see from a mile off, cretinous behaviour from all concerned and a ludicrously indestructible villain meant whatever good feelings I may I had towards the movie came crashing down like a lead balloon.

These two girls have just come back from Mexico, and are trying to get a ride home from the airport. Rather than take an official bus, they rather unwisely choose to hop on a dodgy looking blue van driven by a seedy looking geezer... with the offer of a 50% discount. A couple of lads desperate to get off with the two ladies join them, along with a nervous-looking businessman. His role will quickly become clear for anyone with a half functioning brain. Surprise, surprise... the truck doesn't stop where they want it to. Then, when the vehicle halts abruptly when it gets a 'flat'... that's where the ordeal begins.

And not just for the protagonists. Constantly, we see people having countless opportunities to run for it, kill the bad guy, escape with the van... and do they take any of them? Nope. Admittedly, this would have ended the film much sooner (not a bad thing). But to endlessly harangue us with these venues of retreat, only for the foolish characters to choose THE WORST POSSIBLE OPTION and muck them up is just an insult to the audience. This is a common problem to be found in a lot of recent films... if our heroes are going to fail, at least let them do it in a believable way, not by having them act dumber than roadkill. It also majorly diminishes what sympathy we may have had for the hapless fools... when they're the architects of their own downfall.

As for the evil dude, he can be involved in a major automobile accident, bludgeoned over the head repeatedly, stabbed in the thigh and shot through the skull... and STILL muster up enough strength to not only survive, but force a young woman into a box. Is he a cartoon? It just adds to the lunacy, anyway. And the few curveballs the script throws our way could be anticipated by the most inattentive of viewers. Shuttle could have been a noteworthy horror with originality, but thanks to poor treatment just ends up being a forgettable also-ran... 4/10

I came across this movie on cable at random and I admit I thought 'Oh no, another B grade piece of trash'. I couldn't have been more wrong. Shutter purports to be a psychological thriller, and indeed, that is what it is. It's been a while since a movie has had me gripped to my seat, feeling the fear as I wait for the next brutal plot point. Sure, it's derivative and the narrative can be (in parts) somewhat predictable, but oh my, what a ride it turned out to be. The lead actor bad guy is wonderful and fleshes out a three dimension representation of a psychopath who has many layers. All the other actors do a fine job, but he is the stand out.

I don't get the people that put this movie down !! Maybe there are a few mistakes in the movie but it has an Important message ! Maybe you guys that don't like it don't think there is enough blood and gore and all that ?! i don't know and i think those types of movies are a bit over the top to be honest ! Don't you get the serious message they are trying to show ? I think this movie is very original but brutal and very gut wrenching ! The topic of this movie is about a very disturbing and real problem that goes on everywhere in the world : women and especially young women are being abducted and then sold in to sexual slavery ! I think what these girls in the movie and also in real life go through is horrendous!! How can people treat women this way ?? it is such an horrendous act. This movie is not meant to be a horror movie as such its more that they want us to look at a very real and disgusting truth. I think this movie is very good and quite well done, maybe a few mistakes here and there but i think they did not care about that and just wanted the message to get through loud and clear! The actors and actresses are very good and make it very realistic. See it and really watch the movie and try to think that you are in the same situation and think how terrifying it would be ! people need to wake up and realize this really happens.

I watched 'Shuttle' yesterday night and I have to say it really scared me...

What many people say about the movie is true: Some of the actions aren't credible. There is the female lead, finally pointing with a gun at the captor - and she doesn't shoot. Her best friend who wants to kill him, but doesn't intervene. That 'scared family guy' who refuses to defend - and no one realizes who he really is. I admit - the movie was in some parts predictable. Yet, I was absolutely fascinated. I wanted to know what was going to happen next and didn't expect some of the twists. But what I think makes this movie worth watching is not only the great acting (I really loved watching) but also the message. This movie only tells in the final scene what's been the reason for all this to happen; why five people had to die, but the women don't get hurt at all (except for the one being killed in the end, but even then he doesn't stab her...). I think slavery is an important issue to think about - most people aren't aware of what's going on. This makes the movie soo worth watching.

Not a perfect movie, but MUCH better than many others...

Well, it seems many people don't get this movie. This comment will perhaps contain some spoilers of what it is all about.

There are countless of people abducted in the world, especially young women. They are sold in to sexual slavery, preferably to a country far far away from where they came. Girls from eastern Europe gets sold to the US, Turkey, China. Chinese girls are sold to Hong Kong, Middle-east, US. US girls are sold to China, Russia, Middle-east. And so on.

This movie was to show us how one scenario that these people could use to get away with such an horrendous act. This is not a horror movie per se, but a document to those that families and friends lost. And to those girls that lost everything, and quite possibly their life in the end.

It reminds me in a way of Lilja4ever and Holly, which portrays similar events in eastern Europe and Asia. These are sad stories to tell, but people need to wake up and realize this really happens. These films, if well made, are important.

I liked this movie but I called every one of it's "twists" way in advance.

It was a great idea on the villains' part to plant a fake on the bus but you can tell by the extreme cowardice of the so called hostage that he was exactly that, long before the empty headed heroes, who didn't catch on until he stuck a knife in one of their throat.

It was shortly after that I turned to my mother and said with a nasty chuckle, "I bet he's taking them to a white slavery processing center!" I was right again. It was absolutely hilarious when the brunette begins putting two and two together and tells the slow members of the audience everything the smart ones figured out long ago.

The most frustrating parts (of this and other films) were the ones where the heroines take control of the gun and refuses to use it to empty the creeps' skulls out onto the floor. When she finally does so, she doesn't make sure the SOB is properly dead and he proceeds to show her how determined he is to earn that money.

I really like movies about white slavery. You can really feel good about them because there's no racism involved. HA!

So okay here goes. Crazy bus driver takes a handful of 'kids' (late 20s to early 30s) and one timid middle-aged guy, hostage.

He threatens them with violence and a gun. But get this, the 'kids' have countless opportunities to get away, but would rather make life more difficult by choosing not to.

I promise, you'll scream at how pathetic these people are. I could only make it 50 minutes in and I had to skip to the end. I wasn't going to waste a further 40 minutes of my life on it. But let me just say, the conclusion was utterly stupid.

What a stinker this movie is. Unlikeable and unmemorable characters.

Bad acting, particularly by the timid guy and the bus driver. Truly awful. A very stupid plot.

All in all I couldn't care what happened to these idiots, or the man with the gun. Boring beyond belief.

I understand there's torture porn in this film. Do you know something, who cares!? Not me.

Awful film. Just 1 out of 10.

I found 'Shuttle' an incredibly frustrating film to watch. It starts quite well and moves along briskly until the first 'injury' (which is a doozy). After that it becomes very lazy and underwritten as a story. It was the case of the plot driving the characters and not the characters driving the plot. If you hate film where you can't understand why characters do what they do, you will loathe 'Shuttle'. Particularly, the last act is odd and seems to occur in a world without common sense. Also at the end one of the characters confessed a past misdemeanor to her friend, rather than generating sympathy from the audience, most people started to giggle. This was probably because the 'heroines' of the story was a complete idiots. Finally there is an ending which just seems tacked on to be 'shocking' and comes from the horror cop-out school of 'people are bad, audience, so just accept it without any explanation'.

'Shuttle' is neither good or bad, but mediocre. And annoying.

Im not a critic myself, I can't rate the acting and the actual way the whole film is made, but as my first review, i thought i just had to comment on this particular movie after watching it.

First off its a genuine thriller, it does make you guess just 'what the heck' is going on here. although having a good story and flow doesn't always cut it for a good film.

SPOILER: now this part is where i jump to just what bugged me the most, in nearly every thriller I've seen where the captors end up having a brief moment of becoming the captive, every every time the people that have finally wrestled control of a terrible situation, always seem to fail miserably at ending what is obviously going to be certain doom to them. example, if you were taken hostage, so far down the road you witness you captor mutilate one of the other hostages, after which you manage to finally get control of the situation, would you really (with all that pumped up, andrenaline rushing mind of yours) just turn the tables and keep them hostage, no, the first chance you got you would most likely end their existence before, the obvious happens, bieng you lose control again. i was just saying to myself 'just kill the guy already geez!' what kind of mentality would you have to have to develop some kind of stockholme syndrome within 2 or so hours, the film could of ended about 1hr in, and yet it doesn't. i don't care if your a Christian saint, if you were in that situation, you would of just shot the guy there and then without flinching. even then at the end .. again its cliché 'shoot the bad guy once .. ONCE! i mean common ffs i would of picked up each and every round for that revolver, and emptyed them all into the guys head, just to make sure he was never going to get back up, and yet .. fail fail and even more fail .. did i mention .. the female lead is uber fail?

now apart from the stupid mistakes of the female leads to keep the movie flowing until its fanale, this would be an awesome movie, except it fails on the simple logic that every one in a movie based on hostage taking or where peoples live are at risk, as soon as you think 'woot they're done for now you've got control now just end it!! common just kill them already!' .. no instead its just fail.

from my point of view the film is good, i liked the plot, even though it gets a bit obvious toward the last 1/3rd of the movie. the acting as far as i can tell is good, I'm not an actor myself or even have much knowledge on the subject, but i didn't think any of the films characters really slacked, i did feel gripped by the film, yet again i was pretty disappointed by the fact that the female characters just failed so badly when given the chance to end the crisis. they totally just.. well failed.

7/10 its worth watching if you can get passed the usual movie stretching problems that seem to occur in nearly every thriller type movie.

This movie gets one star. I should have stuck to my opinion when I said, this movie was not worth recording. I am HIGHLY disappointed with the ending. Cause seriously, the maniac got shot in the head, glass cut deeply within his knee and he got hit with the light thingy or whatever!! Yet he's fighting like nothing happened to him?? It would have been better if at least one person got away. I am so disgusted with this movie and I'm removing it from my dvr. And this movie did not have its own storyline it's plenty of movie out there about trafficking..this one is just told in a different way so, I don't know what that dude is talking about. Anywho, this movie was wack..do NOT watch!!!

OK this will contain spoilers. Now I have never seen such a large pile of poop since the laxative/feed mix up at the elephant enclosure in the zoo! It has more plot holes than moth eaten lace and as for the 'realistic' plot line. Well sexual slavery is a dreadful and very real world wide problem and this pile of bilge utilises this plague as a plot device to titillate and tease, shame on everyone involved for that piece of questionable judgement. But back to the film, if you were going to kidnap people from an airport, some of the most secure and camera happy places in the modern world by the way, then why plant a stoolie on the inside of the van who does bugger all until the plot needs a twist. Just wait until you are out of the airport, pull the gun, handcuff the passengers, drive calmly to the warehouse and kill the guys, job done. On the passengers side, on at least three occasions the good guys have the bad guys incapacitated and are armed, WASTE THEM! Once in a movie it can just be acceptable not to put a bullet in the bad guys skull, but COME ON three times! And after he's killed most of you. Also the guy is willing to put down the gun to stop a scarred cheek but kills a girl for a yeast infection that could be cleared up with $20 dollars worth of drugs. I could go on and on about the amount of holes in this but I won't waste any more of my time. Suffice to say that I have rarely been so insulted by such a dreadful piece of drivel and as for the real problem of sexual slavery, girls go voluntarily to new 'jobs' in distant lands and are abused, raped, and often killed by the gang master who meets them off the boat/plane and takes their passports and freedom. This s**t is an insult to anyone whose life has been affected by this! Do not waste your time!

This movie may be low-budget but it has one hell of a kick. When you begin watching this movie you expect something a lot different, there may not be much blood or gore to this flick but it will put you on the edge of your seat. The movie itself is pretty good, keeps you entertained for a good hour and the two female roles are absolutely beautiful so that make's things even better.

It has it's twists and turns but it is something to watch on a Sunday night. I didn't care much for one of the characters because he was an egotistical annoyance in my opinion but if you like something a bit action and something that will get your heart pumping then this is the right movie for you.

It has it's pros and cons but doesn't every movie? I bought it on DVD before I knew anything about it and I must say, I don't regret it. Watch it and find out for yourself.

I've just finished watching this movie and as always I refuse to give too much away on the plot and characters so here is my simple review.

The good points - Original plot, very acceptable acting by mostly unknown actors and OK direction by first time director Edward Anderson on a low budget. The bad points - Not enough time spent getting to know the characters i feel the movie could have spent the first 20 - 30 minutes getting to know about the characters, very poor colour and lighting in this movie everything seemed to have a pale complexion, its got your usual don't do that, why did he/she do that scenarios for thriller/horrors.

All in all could have been better maybe seemed a little too long based on the fact that there was no character development at all.

Average

Try and enjoy if you do watch it though.

I liked it. It's evidently a small budget project and within those limits they did a great job. It's entertaining, fast-paced, decently acted, and - most important for this kind of movie - fairly scary. The twist in the end, which is not really a twist but the solution of what really was going on all the time, gives it a sinister and cynical extra, as does the lack of a happy ending.

In essence it's your average bashing & torture-horror: a bunch of youngsters is being held captive and physically tormented by some psychopathic weirdo's who seem to act just for the kick of it. There are some desperate attempts to escape, but those all fail miserably, and one by one the young people are offed until the last victim has ran out of resources and has to face her doom. In this movie the originality lies in the context: the boys and girls are abducted in a shuttle bus and most of all the horrors take place in this cramped space, while the bus takes them to desolate industrial area's in the middle of the night, which adds a nice claustrophobic touch. Maybe the young guys are not the greatest actors, but they're okay, and the two (attractive) girls are doing a great job, as does the guy who plays the driver. The other older man played it all a bit too much over the top for my taste, but I cannot deny that he came out as a pretty convincing creep.

My few reservations concerned the script, or at least the logic of it, since it seemed to contain some major pot-holes. How desolate can a suburban area in the vicinity of an airport be, there being no-one in sight while they drive on (in circles?) for hours and hours? And then strangely enough they encounter a big functioning supermarket. In the middle of no-mans land?! Mel is forced to buy some stuff in this supermarket. She uses sign-language for the deaf (that's part of her day-time job) to the surveillance camera, and she hands the girl at the counter a little note hidden in her change. Why so complicated? Why didn't she just voice her message to the girl, the abductor in the bus couldn't have overheard that!? Outside one of the boys tries to run away and is overrun by the bus. Why didn't he scream his head off, since he was on the parking lot of an evidently still open supermarket?! Was the counter-girl the only staff-member present? That's hardly credible, in such a big store in the middle of the night! Didn't anyone of the staff hear (or see) this bus driving like mad around the parking lot to chase the escaped boy? Then there's this innocent bystander that gets killed along the way - which must have left a body and a car-wreck. Didn't that attract any notice whatsoever? Then there were all these ID-cards that the abductor had lying about in his hiding-place, they indicated hundreds of girls having been abducted, and who knows how many murdered, in the exact same way as our friends. We heard the abductor say that he did this shuttle-bus job some 5 years. So shouldn't the police in all those years have figured out some pattern here? Like: all missing girls coming from the airport but never reaching home; a strange bus parking year after year late at night at the exit of the airport-terminal but not being connected to a legitimate taxi firm; and numerous dead bodies (the girls that were not pretty enough or had some sort of physical flaw) discarded all over the area. It seems highly improbable that all this can repeatedly have happened without ever drawing any attention.

Anyway, in spite of these minor flaws this is a solid and exciting and surprisingly original movie, with a twist that reaches out into your everyday reality enough to leave you rather uncomfortable.

I rank it 8 out of 10.