SHATTERED
Just remembered this ridiculous movie I watched with Dee and Lizard last Saturday.
We initially wanted to watch The Kite Runner, though the book was a waste of my Kinokuniya discount voucher *frowns* but I was curious to see how it would be adapted into a movie.
BUT. That wasn’t the crappy movie I was talking about.
The timings for Kite Runner were screwed up, and the other movies were all like, Ah Long, CJ7, Kung Fu Dunk and all the other movies which weren’t worth $10, so we watched…
SHATTERED.
We didn’t know what the movie was about, so we took the risk of spending $10 on it.
I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED AH LONG.
I think what makes a thriller/action film a complete booboo would be if the dramatic scenes, especially the climax, made the audience laugh… Without the intention to create humour.
Here was the climax:
(Pierce Brosnan caught Gerard Butler having an affair with his wife, so they’re punching and rolling on the ground with guns placed conveniently within their reach on the floor)
Pierce Brosnan: But you weren’t just screwing her, were you, you were screwing with ME!!! *punch*
WTF.
That has got to be one of the worst puns in the history of Hollywood. Seriously, I don’t know why Pierce Brosnan and Gerard Butler agreed to this film, and the whole cinema was snorting and laughing away at this scene.
Sigh. Alamak.
The plot was senseless too. Basically this couple (Gerard Butler + some bad actress whose name I forgot) was threatened and robbed by this mysterious man (Pierce Brosnan) for the like the whole day, a la Collateral.
So for 3/4 of the movie, we’re all wondering, why the hell is Pierce Brosnan messing with them? They didn’t do anything wrong.
Big fat twist 1 (which was revealed in the last 20 minutes of the movie): Gerard Butler was having an affair with Pierce Brosnan’s wife, so Pierce was pissed, hence the whole-day-of-hell.
Big fat twist 2 (revealed in the last 3 minutes of the movie): Gerard Butler’s wife was actually collaborating with Pierce Brosnan. She wanted to get back at Gerard Butler because she knew that he was cheating on her.
Major WTF. At the end of the movie, Denise said, “You know, NORMAL people would like, just confront the spouse… Ask for a divorce…” Yes, normal people would. Looks like this character was just plain psycho.
$10…Could buy 5 nice plates of chicken rice 
Oh, and another tip to directors. Please stick to 1 title. On the poster, it said, “SHATTERED” with Pierce Brosnan and Gerard Butler’s faces badly photoshopped on it.
But. When the movie started, the title was: Butterly On a Wheel.
“Do you think we’re watching the right movie?”
“I have a feeling we are… And this isn’t a very good movie.”