Stuck

Sometimes the only thing you need to make a great movie is a great cast. Sometimes all you need is a big budget. And sometimes all you need is a crackling screenplay, or a talented director. But sometimes all you REALLY need is a guy stuck in a windshield for 80 minutes. There isn't a slow clap gif on the entire Internet slow enough to express my feelings after watching this. Bravo.

Slow to start but once the foot hits the gas it never lets up. A Hitchcockian effort from Gordon in the best sense. Only thing really holding this back is Suvari's fluctuation between believably intense to ham-fisted cornball. I'm willing to cut her some slack though. Strongly Recommend.

Sharp, relentless feature that demonstrates that killers in horror films don't need chainsaws or machetes to be scary. A complete lack of empathy, endless self-delusion, utter self-absorption, and idiotic behavior can cause just as much havoc. The film is well-paced, without too many implausible moments, and it also has some nice dark-humor, as well. It's still a bit simplistic both in outlook and story structure, but I was still impressed with Gordon's accomplishments within these limitations.

It's no surprise that Gordon handles the squeamish bits really well & the profound lack of empathy shown by Suvari towards Rhea feels as disturbingly real as it should. However, Gordon takes some misguided turns in2 leftist anti-authority bashing that feel false. Since the film's core is based on such a loathsome act, it's glib 2 connect it 2 everyday power plays. There's also 2 many attempts at black comedy that fall equally flat & the tonal shifts r just 2 jarring 2 work as a whole.

A very satisfying outing from Stuart Gordon. Loosely based on the real-life case of the nurse who hit a homeless man and left him impaled in her windshield in her garage for days, the film differs enough from the source so as to provide a satisfying conclusion. Stephen Rea is pretty great in this, quite a feat when you consider half of his time in the film is spent stuck in a windshield; I can almost forgive him for starring in shit like V For Vendetta.

"Stuck" deserves more than goofball antics thrown into a taut, sharp-edged plot. Characters are often stupid, but Stephen Rea as the victim does well for drawing us in and making us care. Suvari also succeeds at being so very inhumane that we literally hate her. But the movie could keep things tight and edgy, and it sadly doesn't. Rea's attempts at escape only prove frustrating with the passerby's around him and the movie relies on too much improbability. For DTV material, it's okay.

The 3rd film in Gordon's unofficial 'horrors of reality' trilogy, Stuck is based on an impossibly true story of a callous nurse who hits a man with a car and leaves him to die in her garage, caught in the windshield, because helping him might jeopardize her career. Keenly aware of its absurdist potential, Gordon wisely piles on the gallows humour while never losing sight of the uniquely human tragedy unfolding before us. Shame that it becomes routine during its final crucial moments.

It's pretty silly, and the characters are mostly annoying idiots, but Gordon wrings a decent amount of tension out of Rea's attempts to escape. Suvari is not good, and those corn-rows, Jesus.

Wouuv, its better than expected. Also the story is horrible, like hell!

Excellent low budget drama/thriller with great performances by Stephen Rea and Mena Suvari.

All of human are a little bit evil, some of them are more evil than others.

Video review: https://youtu.be/nmRG4aSOzmU In the pantheon of straight-to-DVD horror films, Stuck is way up top. Full review coming soon

A pretty good job by the cast in this very simple story. Mena Suvari was so easy to hate, along with her boyfriend and I felt nothing but pity for Stephen Rea's character. The movie had some strange moments of humor that kind of worked, but the horror of the situation really created some tense moments, Movie does get a bit slow and it does get a little boring, but this still deserves a watch.

Top badass moment? The dog; so cute, so... ew! Thanks to Covid-19, we all know that care workers are underpaid and overworked heroes, so the way that Thomas Bardo deliberately vandalises Brandi’s car is nothing sort of despicable. Then again, he’s the sort of bloke who rips off his landlord, gives grief to people who’re doing their best to help him get a job and physically assaults guys just because they’re Black. He really is an odious little man. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.

Very decent suspense movie, that sadly has a few small that, while not breaking the movie, do diminish it's effects quite a bit.

It is not boring but it is a just regular movie it could be shown on a Saturday afternoon on TV.

Serviceable B-movie schlock horror with atleast an original premise if not execution.

Twisted and dark in a nicely non-grand way. Pace is decent, Stephen Rea is a lead you'll easily sympathise with, and the story never becomes tóó ludicrous.

I love Stuart Gordon..and I love the story..but some of the movie to me tried so hard to be funny and controversial.and it came across as flat...though some of the movie was fun enough...

Boring and silly. Watching Mena Suvari try to channel a stereotypical ghetto girl was just embarrasing. Skip this trash.

Interesting. I'm still on the fence about Stuart Gordon's new approach to filmmaking.

"Gordon shoots his material's descent into grotesqueness (of both a physical and ethical sort) with jagged briskness that amplifies his scenario's mordant humor." - Nick Schager

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good movie

The characters felt like actors, and usually when that happens, the film goes down the tube.

One of Stuart Gordon's finer efforts. Stuck surrounds its centerpiece, a gruesome untreated injury, with a cast of well-acted but insufferably callous and stupid characters. It's a taxing display of the blackest humor, and I think Gordon is able to get away with being so macabre only because he is ultimately not a cynic. In some unlikely and twisted way, he combines sadistic glee with a moral compass.

Not bad. OK,some would describe it as a classic idiot plot but I'll give it a bit more credit than that