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Great Film overall

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

A viewer is bound to fall in love with this movie if they happen to be a journalist, love to write, or just love to see someone in trouble. The movie is based on true events and revolves around a very young man that gets himself into quite a mess. The director (Billy Ray) chose to base the plot on real events. Other than this movie, Ray has directed several other films many may know including "The Hunger Games", "Hart's War" and "Suspect Hero". Viewers may recognize some of the actors and actresses in the film. Chloë Sevigny plays one of Steven's close friends at the office. She has played a role in shows such as, "American Horror Story" or "Portlandia" and more. Steve Zahn, another actor in the movie has been in many recognizable shows and movies as well including, the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, "Dallas Buyers Club", "Daddy Day Care", "Management" etc. Other stars that viewers may know make appearances throughout the movie so keep an eye out. The main character, Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen) is a young and spirited journalist for The New Republic. He dreams of becoming recognized for his news stories and he'll do anything for that attention... even if that means twisting the truth. Life is going fantastic for this young journalist pursuing his dreams. Everything changes when his beloved editor, Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria) is fired and the new editor, Charles Lane (Peter Sarsgaard) questions Steven's credibility. Life gets tougher for Glass as he's always thought of himself as a likeable person. Will Steven get away with a few lies, ruin his career... which will ruin his life, or will he end up somewhere in between? Will sorry be enough everytime?I personally enjoyed Hayden Christensen's role in the movie. Although some might not consider him to be a real Steven Glass look alike, he's definitely got an unexpected personality. It's hard to look away from the screen when you see him start to get into trouble and it's definitely reasonable for some characters to not get mad at him. He throws out the puppy eyes look whenever he gets in trouble. Some fall for his charming looks and sweet personality and others, well, not so much. The movie is very fast paced and engaging. Some parts of the movie are very literal and give a reality show feel like a cameraman following the Kardashian sisters around their mansion. But other parts of the film, (especially the end half) switch up and we can feel Steven's emotions and guilt. We can cringe at the uncomfortable and tense scenes between Lane and Glass. The movie leaves us with an almost every on the edge feeling after watching the abstract ending. As soon as the film ended I was eager to look up the story of Steven Glass (real), and although the internet doesn't have an endless pit of Glass to fall into, I still found some interesting pictures and articles relating to the Story of Steven Glass. I recommend searching this after watching the film because it added to the film for me, it answered some questions I had, left some questions unanswered which made my curiosity flow. This is the only time broken glass isn't so dangerous, quite enticing even. See the film as soon as possible, it is a must watch.

While I found Shattered Glass aggravating, it was incredibly engrossing and I loved it.The reason I found it aggravating is that Stephen Glass is quite an annoying individual and I can't really accept that someone didn't call BS every time he spoke. Being based on true events, the stories told in the film must have been vastly over the top compared to anything that really happened for any of it to work. Peter Sarsgaard and Steve Zahn were terrific and Christensen must have done a great job playing the role, because I hated the character and wanted to witness his demise. Chloe Sevigny on the hand is horrible here and in every film she has ever been in! Then there is Chad Donella who commanded the screen in the great episode "Hungry" from the X-Files, playing another minor role in a film instead of being the star.

Shattered Glass is a film that I would not traditionally watch, but I am glad I took the time to watch it. It was very educational on a topic I did not know of before watching the film. It did a very good job of making the viewer feel the way real people involved in this event felt. It made us feel bad for the main character Stephen Glass, and even sympathize with him. It would specifically be a good watch if the viewer is either interested in or involved in journalism. The film depicts a real life event and shows the consequences that come along with journalistic lying. The story is re-told in an interesting and correct way in light of the real events that occurred at the magazine company. The film was well made and I would recommend taking the time to watch it.

Okay, so if there's one thing I don't want to say it's that there are two kinds of movies in the world; the good movies and the bad movies. . . okay, yes I do because I often find that when I watch a movie I'm either completely enthralled in it or I'm left trying to figure out what the hell I just watched. Which is why I'm quite frankly surprised with Shattered Glass, not in the sense that it was a good movie (meaning it achieved its goal in making the point it set out to make) and not in the sense that it was a bad movie (meaning it's plot and purpose was less coherent than a schizophrenic parrot tripping' hard on LSD. (I'm looking at you '21 Jump Street!)) No, what surprised, and somewhat confused me was the fact that Shattered Glass didn't seem to know what it was. It seemed to be lost somewhere between being a movie and a documentary. At first it seemed to be a movie, what with its attention-grabber opening featuring Anikin Skywalker- er, I mean, Stephen Glass giving a soulful narration about betraying the Jedi order I mean how to be a good journalist, but the 'movie feel' stopped about there because Glass's back-story virtually disappeared other than a passing reference to his high school language arts teacher, which turned out to be a guilt or possibly LSD induced flashback *cough!* 21 Jump Street *cough*, but I digress.The main issue, when you boil it down, is the fact that the writer couldn't seem to decide who his focus character would be. It starts with Force-choke McGee who then proceeds to fumble the protagonist ball to be picked up by 'Mr. Benefitofthedoubt' who passes it to Commodore Pencil-Pusher, only to have it intercepted by the president of 'Nerds Weekly' and his sidekick, Miss Token Minority who then decide to team up with Commodore Pencil-Pusher in a maniacal attempt to create the first Galactic Empire! I mean, expose Glass for the lying snot-wad that he is. And after all that, just when I've decided to classify it as a documentary, Shattered Glass decides to go and pee all over my proverbial cupcakes by tossing the ball back to Darth Snotwad and letting him finish up the movie all Stranger Than Fiction style in the hopes that I wouldn't notice the fact that it would have been much better if it had just followed the President of Nerds Weekly in his quest to eliminate lying chuck-nuggets from news and magazine articles- AHA! HAHAHA! Good luck with that crusade, Sir Liveswithmymom! Call me when you invent a new number, then we'll talk about doing the hard stuff.So all in all, Shattered Glass wasn't a "bad" film, but it definitely wasn't very enthralling. It achieved its objective in telling the viewers about what happened in the true event that it reflected, but it could have done it better. It's one of those films you should eventually watch for enlightenment purposes, but don't expect to be blown away by it, so don't bother going out of your way to get it 'as soon as possible'.