Broken (2006)

Recently released on Dimension extreme DVD, the box cover promises intense gore. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to this. Broken is the story of a madman that kidnaps women and makes them play deadly games (kinda a backwoods rip-off of Saw) and then forces them to be his slave. There is not much more to the story than that and there lies the major flaw in this movie. While there are parts that live up to the box cover, they are few and far between. The overall story is very boring with not much going on. It has very little action and even less character development. This is honestly very poorly written. I don’t mind killers where we don’t know motivation, but here it really seemed like we should have gotten to know why he was doing this.

While poorly written, it is not all lost. I do think it was well shot and some parts were flat out beautiful. The credit sequence is quite intense and really fools you into thinking you are about to get a nice movie. Overall it is very boring with some decent bits of gore. It does have a pretty good ending but it is not worth your time to make it to it.

My rating 4 out of 10

Review by Elvis Lawson

Here is the trailer.