Shuttle

While the story takes place on the bus, Shuttle is a very likeable low-budget flick, but when by the end the action moves to another location, it looses much of its fun. Really, that last half hour is downright annoying. The runtime is also 102 minutes, which is a bit more than ideal for a for a fun B-movie. Otherwise, it was a pleasant surprise overall, I expected a lot more amateurishness (there are mistakes, of course, but who’s perfect?), but for a début on a shoestring, it’s very decent. That said, there are a couple of moments that I hated, the typical ones, when all the heroine would have to do is cut the kidnapper’s throat with a knife that it’s available, and “we are free!”, but then everything would have ended after 20 (and then 30, 40, 50…) minutes. Regardless, Shuttle is still a tad better than most recent low-budget American remakes. (31.03.2009)