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05/07/03
Breakdown (1997)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:36
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A brainy and suspenseful -- if somewhat uneven -- thriller.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: After their new Jeep conks out on a desolate stretch of Arizona highway, a well-heeled Massachusetts couple accepts the help of a polite and seemingly honest trucker (J.T. Walsh), who drives the... [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey
Director: Jonathan Mostow
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Reviews for Breakdown
A fairly taut thriller that gets into gear by stealing parts from Duel, The Vanishing and Deliverance.
01/01/00
A taut, well-crafted suspense film that delivers the paranoid goods.
10/28/05
An incredibly tense, gripping, white-knuckle treat.
01/01/00
A terrifying movie that presses the right buttons early on and then capitalizes on your vulnerability.
01/01/00
A first-rate nail-biter that packs more genuine white-knuckle moments into 100 minutes than a dozen overpriced volcano movies could ever dream of having.
03/03/06
A well-made B thriller.
07/25/02
[Mostow is] able to sustain a nightmarish reality that is at once gripping and chilling.
06/05/02
...one of the most effective and flat-out engrossing thrillers within recent cinematic history...
07/06/09
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04/21/04
Nifty morality play about the invidious vices of envy and showing off.
08/26/02
Just about worth the price of admission.
01/01/00
If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today and working with a '90s sensibility, he'd be proud to claim it as his own.
01/01/00
Mostow knows his Hitchcock as well as his Spielberg.
01/01/00
Top CriticBreakdown gets the job done.
01/01/00
Top CriticA taut suspense film.
11/06/02
An example of what happens when a new filmmaker comes along with a fresh perspective and manages to squeeze some life back into a by-now formula plot.
01/01/00
A well-crafted thriller.
05/07/03
It's a cool flick, with a good story, and it's worth paying full price. And I never say that about Kurt Russell movies.
10/24/01
If you liked Hand That Rocks the Cradle, or Eye for An Eye, you are gonna like Breakdown.
04/17/02
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