10 reasons why this movie is awful

1. Massively overused orchestral crescendo. The music builds up as if something exciting is about to happen, then nothing happens. Again and again and again.

2. Shots linger too long on uninteresting crap. Hey, let's look a this coffee cup for the next 5 minutes while the audience falls asleep.

3. Cliche "protagonist is actually a ghost/doppleganger" twist at the end. It was original and surprising in "The Sixth Sense." It was predictible and boring in "The Broken."

4. Lack of any reasonable explanation or background information on the dopplegangers. Simple questions like what they are, where they come from, or why they are killing people are never answered. Pretentious armchair film buffs on this forum will try to say that no explanation is needed because the film is artistic and open to interpretation, but this is *beep* Being artistic is fine but sacrificing context to this degree is inexcusable.

5. Inconsistent killings. The brother's girlfriend's doppleganger was able to magically shove its hand into her mouth and make her bleed to death (???). Lena Heady's doppleganger had to attempt to suffocate her victim with a bag and finally resorted to bludgeoning her with a statuette.

6. Portrayal of doctors/therapists as idiots. Their conversations always focused on Heady's inability to remember the car crash she was involved in. She suffered a *beep* concussion, of course she doesn't remember anything.

7. Heady's character's memory loss appears only when it's convenient for the plot. She remembers her boyfriend and family, her radiology skills, her car, her brother's phone number, but not where she lives or the fact that SHE IS A *beep* DOPPLEGANGER.

8. Plot integrity is sacrificed during feeble attempts to keep the painfully obvious "twist" hidden. When Heady drops her pill bottle and bends over, her reflection makes an angry stabbing motion at her. If Heady is actually the doppleganger and not the real her, why does she have another evil reflection in the mirror?? Also, why is her doppleganger boyfriend chasing after her? Why doesn't he just kindly remind her that she is one of them?

9. Overuse of the same crappy flashback. Ok we get it, you guys spent money on a slow motion shot of a car crash with a dummy painted to look like Lena Heady. We don't need to see it every 5 minutes.

10. The enemies weren't scary enough. They didn't even go to the trouble of putting some scary makeup on the actors for their evil dopplegangers.

Seriously, even the horrendous "Mirrors" with Kiefer Sutherland was better than this garbage.