broken start a single mother hope ( producer nadja brand ) return home after a date to her young six year old daughter jennifer ( megan van kerro ) and after make sure jennifer be alright hope go to sleep herself . suddenly hope wake up to find herself in a wooden coffin and a day later a man ( eric colvin ) let her out but then tie a rope around her neck to a tree and balance her on a log and inside a deep wound in her stomach be a razor blade to cut through the rope and save herself from choke and hope manages to reach inside her own body to find the blade and cut the rope . after this first test the man then chain her to a tree and make her clean his pot and pan and tend a little vegetable patch in the middle of a forest and a you would . hope try to escape but the man punish every attempt . be jennifer still alive and will hope be able to find help . this british production be write and direct by simon boyes and adam mason who also edit it and it a bit of an odd film and it suppose to be a stark horror thriller but it just feel like something be miss . available in the u in both r rat and unrated cut i will be base my comment on the long version although a few extra gore shot doesn not significantly alter the film overall . broken be a strange film and hard to categorise and it start off feel like a saw ( 2004 ) imitator with a gruesome trap of some sort but then it settle down into a bizarre imprisonment film a this seemingly random man keep hope chain to a tree in a forest so she can wash his dirty pan and grow vegetable for him . nothing be ever reveal about the man and his name and his origin or why he be do what he be or how he even manage to kidnap hope in the first place or why he choose her and the list just go on . the two barely speak a word to each other and even then it just short sentence and there no idle chit chat here a hope develop a strong bond with a flower and the opportunity for a conversation with a flower be limited to say the least . you know and to be honest i be sit there watch broken and i be just think to myself when hope slash the back of that guy leg but he still have her back do not he realise thing be not go to work out . i mean if he want a woman to cook and clean for you ( who doesn not . ) maybe he should try the lonely heart ad in the local paper and and this time it might not be a bad idea to not actually kidnap and mutilate say woman and you know because that sort of thing generally doesn not help fledgling relationship do it . there also a strange twist end which make little or no sense and why do that guy keep jennifer in a run down shed . surely that an extra mouth to fee . also when hope be try to break the door down why do not jennifer say anything . you know something like wouldo not open the door mum or you will get a face full of nail would have be helpful and wouldn not it . personally i felt the film be lack something after an ok start and a fairly intriguing premise it go nowhere and never give any sort of reason for anything that happen or even where the action take place . there a bit of gore but not that much and there a couple of scene of people reach inside stomach wound and someone pull some stitch out and there a broken leg and someone head get bash in and a tongue be pull out which beg the question how do none of these extreme wound not become infected without proper medical treatment and they quite frankly live like tramp . consider that hope have be live wild in the middle of a dirty forest expose to the element her white shirt be remarkably clean at the end after forty odd day isn not it . just off topic for a moment i have no idea why this film be call broken but a quick imdb search bring up at least another 38 film with exactly the same title . with a supposed budget of about £500 and 000 this be well make and have decent production value but i do not find it scary as much a a little unsettling . film in some wood here in the uk in cambridge somewhere although it could have be shoot anywhere since one tree look much like another . the act do not do much for me and that woman who scream constantly get on my nerve and sure in that situation in real life you might scream that much but it no less irritate to have to listen to . break be a film that may grip and disturb some but the lack of story or logic behind anything that happen meant i couldn not get into it at all and that just my opinion so treat it a such but broken do not do much for me and ultimately felt a bit pointless .