Kirpianuscus the media. the price of success. the need to impose your name to the others. and the chosen way to become famous. Hayden Christensen does a great job. his character remains the same. but the perception about him knows profound change. and this is the most provocative detail. because the viewer is implicated in the definition of verdict about Glass. not an easy thing in contemporary fight for rating, online/outline media who impose different versions of success for rating, in the time of superficiality and hungry of success with reduced effort. more than a good film, its virtue is to be useful support for reflection about near reality. the story of Glass could be remind of old myth of Faust. in same measure, it is interesting introspection in the circle of news makers who risk to becoming makers of truths. so, more than useful analysis about the fall of a star, remember of talent of Christensen or fatal error. a clear portrait of reality perception with the help of media.

jazzfi Now that they've been re-running this movie quite often lately, I finally settled down to watch it and learn about this true story for the very first time.Of course, as with all Hollywood "true" accounts, I am careful not to accept every little detail as fact. Nevertheless, the result is a very suspenseful, thrilling, drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and the way they combine the present, his heroic lecture to the students and their fawning professor, and the events leading to the writers downfall is intriguing.One might think that Glass would have succumbed to the admission of the truth much earlier, rather than continuing ad nauseum to layer one fib over another until they develop into all out lies, attempting to cover his tracks with fake websites and purely fictitious, cheesily made business cards. Really, it gets to the point where we feel sympathy for him and start believing he is truly in need of psychological therapy. Better to come clean as soon as possible than to drag your boss and friends into the muck of your deception.Excellent performances by Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard, make this a very fine and enjoyable film considering I knew nothing about the actual story or the events when they originally took place.

William Lucas My review of this movie is that it really did not have the meat & potatoes that I look for in a good movie,I mean yes it shows you a good example of a liar and a spineless,whiny tailed creep, yet it missed what makes a movie a good movie or a seat clincher.So if I had to give this movie a letter grade it would be a 'D' and that is being very generous.I am glad I did not have to pay to see this movie, I believe the only reason that I watched it was for it was a class assignment and I needed to.So go head and check it out what's good to me might not be the same for you and visa versa. (Are you MAD @ me)..... lol. Waste of an hour and a half could've got a well needed nap in at least.

mcg_car Shattered Glass is not one of the best movies, but is a great movie for the people that like read the magazine The New Republic. The history line goes up at the beginning, then stay there, in the investigation of the article "Hack Heaven" and I had the same question all over the movie "how fake was the article?". The best part is the end.It is a movie directed by Billy Ray where we can find good actors such as Hayden Christenses (Stephen Glass), Chloe Sevigny (Caitlin Avey), Steve Zahn (Adam Penenberg) and Peter Sarsgaard (Chuck).The movie is about the true history of Stephen Glass, a young writer from the magazine The New Republic that manipulates the system of writing on the magazines world. He wrote the article "Hackers Heaven" that was really fake and the magazine Forbes find out that was false and then they began investigating it. Almost all the movie is about that but with a great end.The acting is really good, in special Hayden Christenses made a pretty cool invitation of Stephen Glass, you can see it in the interview (included in the DVD) with the original Stephen Glass.