ronniebrownsm
She is the one that came out of the mirror but she doesn't know it until she accepts it in the final scenes and starts to see and notice others like her.
Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . of a nation's populace being replaced by Demonic Doubles--capable of committing Ultimate Evil--one at a time. Everyone knows that this sort of thing happens occasionally in Real Life, such as in Hitler's Germany or Trump's USA. Years of bullying at West Point and other South-Centric Military Institutions gave Poe a strong sense of the impending Confederacy of Doomed Dimwits about to encompass his home state Virginia and its surrounding Red States. As Director Ellis documents during THE BROKEN, modern medicine can now detect such instances of Mass Delusion and Demonic Possession through X-Rays and Brain Scans. Ellis offers no hope for the weak-minded masses subject to "Capgras Syndrome," victims of which can mistake Red Commie KGB-promoted serial finger rapist TV Game Show Hosts for American Commanders-in-Chief. Whether it's Jeff Davis, Adolph Hitler, or Don Jun Rump spear-heading a Demonic Infestation, the implicit message of Poe and Ellis is to purify the populace with Bonfires of such Inanities. Though these miscreants may LOOK like Aunt Ethel, Uncle Fred, other family, friends, or colleagues, their current status as Rump enablers demand immediate termination with extreme prejudice.
kingsgo4th
I love a suspense thriller that doesn't run much beyond 90 minutes unless it encompasses a large ensemble of characters and it's plot contains complexities and needs time to settle each one. I was in a positive frame of mind as I watched the first 30 minutes.The central character, a young attractive radiologist is asked by a co-worker if she forgot something...he just saw her leave the building, and she knows that's not true. Outside, she sees an image of herself driving. Later she is involved in a head-on car accident. As she recovers in the hospital and we see repeated images of the crash, not once does she ask about the other driver/passengers. What an amazing lack of concern considering it was her fault for staring in her rear-view mirror. As mirrors break in several locations including her father's office restroom, her apartment, her boyfriend's apartment, a friend's apartment, and initially, her dad's apartment!!!! The clock is ticking on this 90 minute film. As we are two thirds of the way through, I pause it and think, 'they'd better come up with some revelation or explanation soon, because this'll be over in less than a half-hour.' My concern proved regrettably true. Yes, as we are beaten over the head with the exact double-taking-us-over plot, it ends abruptly and miserably. The classy camera-work, a petite and attractive heroine to care about and some fine co-stars and suspense were the positive ingredients that resulted in this bagful of broken mirrors. If there was a book, I will not read it because the issue is the film.
patrickkemner
Contains spoilers!I liked the movie, but I would have liked it better if it would have come out before the Body Snatcher.Because this movie is basically the body snatcher movie except that instead of an alien plant, it is extra-dimensional beings that replace people and they don't scream like in Body snatcher when they spot a human.The people who made the script definitively lacked creativity. They just took the older movie and put some new painting, and convinced people that this is a new movie, but it is not.It is not as scary as the older movie, and not as deep or thrilling either.The only part that is new is the extra-dimensional being had some amnesia and thought it was human. But that also comes from another movie, but meh! Too tired to write more about this other movie, so I'll leave it to that.It's a decent movie, but I would never spend a dime on it, since body snatcher already exists plus that other movie. They just did not create anything and that is unfortunate. But the film crew (director, actors, etc.) did a good job and saved this movie from being a complete disaster.
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