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(2012) Broken Trust SOCIAL COMMENTARY DRAMA

This is yet another fictitious made-for-TV movie about the extent pharmaceutical companies will do to win a case. It regards a prosecution toward a pharmaceutical company called Orbik Tech from an ambitious lawyer, Sophie Anderson (Laura Vandervoort) claiming they had stolen information. Sophie's partner of that firm, Bruce Harris ( Sean Allan), then gets kidnapped by the company, and they would hold him as hostage so that Sophie will perform some specific tasks. Who also needed help from her ex, who happens to work for the law enforcement. By looking at the title, "Broken Trust", the movie is kind of a giveaway. And as a result the entire experience is not as surprising anymore.

Something about this film says "TV movie", although I'm not sure exactly what aspect of it. What starts as a legal thriller with a sassy female lawyer turns into a chase movie that strains credibility, with the almost superhuman composure/ingenuity of the lead character and the improbable reach and resources of the bad guy. In a Bond film you have exactly the same issues, but those films don't try to pretend he's just a normal person caught up in extraordinary events.

All of the chase drama is fitted in around an ongoing trial and the rekindling of a romance with an ex-boyfriend (a cop who also becomes embroiled in the events), so perhaps it's this "too much going on" aspect that also leads to the believability creaking.

Laura Vandervoort puts in a good performance - with more energy and angst than more famous roles like V and Smallville - which keeps it watchable, but it is never quite suspenseful or thrilling enough to spark. Worth a watch if you like race-against-time style plots or strong female leads.

This is definitely a pyjama day movie. . It's quite entertaining, the actings not bad either. Also a bit of eye candy for girls and boys. So put your feet up relax and just be entertained.

Mediocre film but so farfetched, for instance when Eric was running after the guy he had taken his jacket and shirt off and was left wearing a vest, why would you do that?? Oh yes of course, to show off his MUSCLES!! Also how can one person be behind every cctv camera wherever she went? I could go on but I won't!

Plot so convoluted and disjointed as to be completely ignored, which leaves the main characters as the remaining saving grace to possibly/hopefully be interested in enough to stay with the torturous movie, but NOPE. The main and secondary characters were barely more human than plastic mannequins - so nothing (plot/storyline) and no one (characters) to care about.

Movie is mainly a long drawn-out modeling showcase for the lead guy and girl due to the plethora of close-ups of their faces and long shots of them walking - from front and back, and the gratuitous shirtless shots of the guy (Eric the detective) to show off his big impressive sculpted muscles. Yawn.