Hot on the heels of Spielberg's commendable 'Catch Me If You Can' (2002), comes 'Shattered Glass' - a strange production from director Billy Ray. I say strange, because the story in itself is pretty boring and non-spectacular, yet is presented in the DVD extras of the film as being "one of the greatest journalistic frauds in history", and also in the marketing of the film we are told "In the spring of 1998 what we thought we knew changed forever"; I think not. Even the fact that a film was made about this at all is strange, given the lack of a story truly worth telling. Above all, the film gives a somewhat glamorous and light-hearted view of Glass's 'rise' (to staff writer) and fall. The film trivialises a serious message, and most notably fails to highlight (a) the mental illness that usually accompanies such fraud and delusions (eg. 'A Beautiful Mind'), and (b) the seriousness of the deception; in this case writing for a magazine that influences many minds (in 'Catch Me if You Can' the necessity of bringing Frank Abagnale to justice was never lost). Finally, there was no reassurance offered regarding the honesty of the majority of serious journalists in their field... in this film I felt the industry itself was painted in a somewhat amateur and disrespectful manner. This is not a film I would recommend on any level.