Director: Stuart Gordon
Year Released: 2007
Rating: 2.0
Supremely downtrodden and unlucky Stephen Rea - pushed by nasty society to sleeping on a park bench - gets slammed into by dreadlocked nurse/pill addict Mena Suvari's speeding auto, trapping his bleeding, broken body in the windshield, but she refuses to get him assistance (fearing for her career, apparently, and morally challenged to boot). The macabre scenario is disturbingly based on fact - a woman actually did hit a man with her car and leave him to die in the garage - and seeing Rea twisting around in the broken glass, hemorrhaging blood is a truly ghastly sight, but the other elements of the film are not nearly as effective, as even the slightest bit of medical knowledge seems to question whether or not Rea could pry shards of glass and metal out of his internal organs and sustain the level of blood loss and trauma and still be as versatile and alert as he is. The decisions made by nursing assistant Suvari (not the best actress on Earth) don't quite gel with human psychology, as someone willing to wash the feces off an Alzheimer's patient and supposedly successful at her job (she has her own house) also keep up a drug habit and so coldly permit someone to die. I'm going out on a limb to say that Gordon's going for some deeper political message, but all I remember is a pen being jammed in a drug dealer's eye.
