So many loose strands and unanswered questions (Spoilers)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Shuttle
samson_k — 13 years ago(June 22, 2012 02:25 AM)
I thought this was okay - the ending elevated it because it was quite bleak but on the whole it was very mediocre and the more I think about it the more I realise it was badly written in so many ways.
For example - the car that nearly drove the bus off the road - was that a random act, was that another accomplice or what? Was it something that was prearranged in the event that the bus ends up guys on it and used as a way of disabling the biggest one? I actually thought that the car that stopped after the bus had crashed was the same one and that the driver of the car would be another accomplice but it wasn't.
If they had two potential candidates for the long boat journey were the items bought in the grocery store enough for two or was it always going to be one that was being sent?
The 911 call - the idea of Chekov's Gun was blatantly ignored here - that if something is shown then it must come into play at some point - the clerk gets the message, reviews the footage and calls the cops. Then the cops are simply never seen. As the film progressed then perhaps it might have been apt to show a scene where the bus gets stopped, perhaps when the women are gagged and Tony Curran's character gets out and talks to the cops and then is left to carry on with the kidnapping - an implication that the women are truly alone.
And I hated the fact that he survived being shot in the head and five minutes later was back to full-snarly-bad-guy mode. The film had a level of realism that made this even more annoying than it would have been in a slasher film.
However - the shot at the end with the boat sailing away and the mournful music and the implications stayed with me and haunted me for a day or two - which kind of made me temporarily think it was a good film. -
chickdr-1 — 13 years ago(July 19, 2012 10:04 AM)
"For example - the car that nearly drove the bus off the road - was that a random act, was that another accomplice or what? Was it something that was prearranged in the event that the bus ends up guys on it and used as a way of disabling the biggest one?"
That car was seen again near the end of the film after the guy views the girls in their underwear- he goes outside the Civic is seen again - so yes he was involved. The question is - Why? It did not serve any purpose as all it accomplished was delaying the girls getting to the warehouse. I would think they would have wanted to get there ASAP, but it is over 1:10 into the movie until they arrive. Lots of questions. -
saneman1 — 13 years ago(January 06, 2013 07:02 PM)
I liked the movie. it was well directed. But I too found the bad guy coming back from near death a little to cliche slasher movie like. It kind of ruined the ending for me. If you are going for bleak, stay bleak. They could have easily had a partner in the crime show up and capture her if they wanted to maintain the bleak ending.
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movie_mentality — 10 years ago(May 09, 2015 06:02 AM)
The clerk was unable to watch the footage, they clearly show her going to watch it and the VHS tape is not pushed in, (not recording), just static on the monitor. She pushes it in and out just to make sure (and to make sure viewers catch that)- guess you didn't. She maybe did call the cops but they'd have no info to go on from just the note alone.