- Content: “Saving a Young Damsel in Distress”
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What You Need To Know:
SHELTER is an exciting, heartfelt thriller. It’s a crowd-pleasing story, with an impressive ending, of a young, orphaned damsel in distress who must be rescued by a tough father figure. So, SHELTER has a strong moral worldview with strong anti-totalitarian facets. The villain is a power-mad big government bully. There’s also brief redemptive talk about saving people. The relationship between the girl and the heroic father figure is emotionally satisfying. Sadly, though, some of the action violence in SHELTER is extreme. The movie also has seven strong obscenities and profanities and 11 or so lighter obscenities. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.
Content:
Strong moral worldview in a violent action movie about a hero fighting a secret and unscrupulous British intelligence officer, who’s working in cahoots with the evil Prime Minister, to establish a surveillance state that has no problem with killing innocent people while pursuing threats to national security (the hero refused to kill a nuclear scientist whom he helped defect from Iran and now is protecting an orphaned teenage girl from the rogue intelligence officer), plus there’s brief talk about saving people;
11 obscenities, six “f” words and one strong profanity using the Anglicized name of the Greco-Latin name for Messiah;
Some extreme point blank shootings in gunfights and some extreme fighting with pipes or a hammer or a sharp hook or a heavy chain, along with less strong action violence involving gunfights, chases and intense physical fighting (one gunfight is set in a nightclub with innocent bystanders being gunned down by the bad guys), and a bad guy kills a dog that attacks him;
No sex;
No nudity;
Some alcohol use;
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Sniper sent by the head villain has no reticent in killing police officers or an innocent farmer, leaving the man’s teenage son an orphan.
More Detail:
The movie opens with a teenage girl, Jessie, and her uncle delivering supplies to a mysterious man living on an isolated island off the Scottish coast. Jessie is intrigued by the man and his dog and leaves a small, wrapped gift for him. However, the man, named Mason, ignores it. When Jessie does it again and tries to talk to Mason, he gruffly shuts the door on her.
However, on the next delivery, a big storm approaches her uncle’s boat. Jessie gets preoccupied with exploring the island, and her little rowboat gets swamped by huge waves. Watching this, Mason rushes out to save Jessie from drowning, but her uncle’s boat totally capsizes.
Mason carries Jessie back to the house on the island to take care of her. However, she’s injured her foot, and he needs to travel to the mainland to get some medicine.
It turns out that Mason has been hiding on the island for 10 years, and that he used to be in the Army with Jessie’s late uncle. After the Army, Mason went to work as a British spy, but had a falling out with his unscrupulous boss, an older man named Manafort, when Mason refused to kill a scientist defecting to Britain.
Since Mason’s been hiding out, however, Manafort has been hard at work expanding the country’s surveillance apparatus, under the current corrupt Prime Minister. He’s used that apparatus to switch Mason’s identity with that of a terrorist. So, when Mason goes to pick up the medicine, he’s flagged by Britain’s domestic intelligence agencies.
They send some commandos to Mason’s island to take him out, but when Mason and Jessie escape, Manafort sends an assassin after Mason and the girl.
SHELTER is an exciting, heartfelt thriller. Movies like SHELTER that star Jason Statham are guaranteed to have lots of action, and SHELTER is no exception. However, the movie and its star have the added benefit of the script’s buildup of the relationship between Statham’s character and the orphaned teenage girl, who’s played by young Irish actress Bodhi Rae Breathnach. As such, it’s reminiscent of Statham’s 2024 movie, THE BEEKEEPER, where he plays a former government spy who brings to justice the computer scammers who stole the teacher retirement fund that his landlady was overseeing.
To sum up, SHELTER is a story about a hero with special skills who’s hiding from a big government tyrant but comes out of his hidey hole when the tyrant threatens his life and the life of a young girl. Ultimately, it’s a crowd-pleasing story of a young, orphaned damsel in distress who must be rescued by a tough father figure. So, SHELTER has a strong moral worldview with strong anti-totalitarian facets. There’s also brief redemptive talk about saving people.
Sadly, though, some of the action violence in SHELTER is a little extreme. The movie also has seven strong obscenities and profanities and 11 or so lighter obscenities. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.
